600??? You gotta hand it to him...

So how much accidental inbreeding occurred? (In Britain I bet you'd never notice).

Whoa! Are bad teeth a product of inbreeding?

I've seen this episode of SVU.

Did you say banker?

What a wanker.

"Wait 'til they get a load of me."

Who says natural selection doesn't happen any more? This guy is a genius!

Madeline Kahn is impressed

The family reunions are going to be...awkward.

Idiocracy?

Were these average baters or were they above average, the masters so to speak.

Should have gotten a Jerktificate of Deposit.

well, that's pretty smart, isn't it? The guy totally won the reproduction lottery.

Thus confirming that the only reason laws like this (underage sex, animal sex, too many sperm donations...) is enacted is that there was a problem with the behavior before...

I'd worry if they all start to look like young Steve Guttenbergs.

LeroyBourne: Needs a follow up tag. I for one, would like to know if any of these people hooked up, or possibly married and spawned. That would be a hoot.

Eh, one generation of half-siblings having children isn't a big deal, health-wise. Unless the founder had a known recessive for something nasty, I guess, which I would generally think probably wasn't the case given the business he was in-- he would have checked for that.

Who's asking?
That depends, who wants to know?
That depends on who's asking.
Well that depends on who wants to know...

cryinoutloud: well, that's pretty smart, isn't it? The guy totally won the reproduction lottery.

And the world is 600 selfish liars richer for it.

skinink: "Sperm sperm sperm sperm sperm sperm sperm sperm..."

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He's just putting every one to use.

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great..."

.Austrian-born biologist Bertold "The Palm" Wiesner and his wife, Dr. Mary "Spitter" Barton, created the London-based Barton clinic in the early 1940s.

This is a pretty good idea. Hmmm..... if I had the money to pull it off.

The man was a physician. Sounds like he had Grade A sperm.

He had excellent jizz.

So, you have a grossly disproportionate impact on the genetic makeup of your culture and gain a place in the textbooks, alongside Genghis Khan and Niall of the Nine Hostages. Not only do you have an eternal biological legacy, but you're also famous.

Winning.

At least he kept it off of the windows and the walls.

Is he from Minnesota, the part where all the women are strong, and all the men are good-looking?

Peter Griffin would be proud.... or jealous.. hard to tell with him.

guarantees his customers "above average" donors

Well, dude was a doctor, so he was above average in terms of intelligence, education, income....would it really be better if it had been some random anonymous dude with good cheekbones?

What he did was creepy but the whole idea of jamming anonymously donated sperm up your hoo-haa is creepy to begin with. Seems best to me if you actually know who your baby's father is to begin with.

Dad?

bigdanc: Who says natural selection doesn't happen any more? This guy is a genius!

This isn't the first time this story has come out, I think last time it was a fertility doctor substituting his own DNA for that of husbands.

An extremely effective way of cuckolding large numbers of men well beyond the average man's potential to do so the old fashioned way.

lohphat: FTFA: Wiesner could have provided at least 20 samples per year over the life of the clinic.

Amateur...I can do that in a weekend.

I came here to say exactly this.

Although the article did qualify 20 by saying "at least", I too am wondering why such a low number?

Unsung_Hero: bigdanc: Who says natural selection doesn't happen any more? This guy is a genius!

This isn't the first time this story has come out, I think last time it was a fertility doctor substituting his own DNA for that of husbands.

An extremely effective way of cuckolding large numbers of men well beyond the average man's potential to do so the old fashioned way.

And most of those babies may grow up without ever knowing who their real father is. They grow up, fall in love with someone who has the same unknown biological father they had, start a family, and end up with a statistically anomalous number of retarded/autistic babies for no apparent reason.

/natural law doesn't care that there's no way you could have known your babies would be inbred
//gotta blame something... maybe the vaccines?

Of course what they really wanted was the Rodney Dangerfield sperm. (new window)

Curse Hulu for not hosting the video.

/Hot like Gilly

Kanemano: Is he from Minnesota, the part where all the women are strong, and all the men are good-looking?

That would be:
San Francisco
My favorite city
Where the women are strong
And the men are pretty.

Wasn't this the plot of an X-Files episode?