Nov 14, 2025 05:38 PM
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/11/1...micropenis
EXCERPTS: A blood sample from—of all people—Adolf Hitler has been procured, authenticated, and sequenced. [...] and from there one can do DNA analysis, even if the sample is somewhat degraded.
[...] The brouhaha centering on Hitler’s micropenis and sexuality has got people worked up because they think that these conditions may have explained Hitler’s behavior. It seems pretty clear that der Füher was not a highly sexed man, but beyond that it’s hard to analyze his psychology [...] And speculations that he had one undescended testicle come not from this genetic study (though the study supports it), but from a doctor’s report made when Hitler was in Landberg Prison.
As for the possibility that Hitler’s behavior was compensation for a micropenis, we have no idea whether he actually had a microphallus. And “likely” is not the right word. In a good article in the Guardian, Philip Oltermann sets out the results of Hitler’s DNA test quite clearly.
[...] For one, the programme finally puts to bed an old rumour that Hitler had Jewish ancestry. Its source is the fact that Hitler’s father Alois was an illegitimate child and the identity of his paternal grandfather was unknown...
[...] The researchers also found robust evidence – the deletion of a letter from a gene called PROK2 – that Hitler had some form of a well-known but rare genetic disorder known as Kallmann syndrome [...] Up to 10% of people with Kallmann syndrome also have a “micropenis”; more prevalent symptoms are low or fluctuating testosterone levels.
[...] When a psychiatric geneticist from Aarhus University presents Hitler’s polygenic risk score for ADHD in the programme, it is shown to be merely “higher than average”. [...] Again, the top half of people in the risk category for ADHD does not mean that Hitler definitely had ADHD, as anybody with brains knows...
[...] Most important of all, aside from the salaciousness of the main claims about his genitals, is that the polygenic risk analysis categorically does NOT and CANNOT be used to ascribe complex psychiatric or psychological traits to an individual. Genetics plays no role in the diagnosis of schizophrenia or ADHD or bipolar. Hitler did not have ‘the gene for schizophrenia’ because there is no such thing... (MORE - details)
EXCERPTS: A blood sample from—of all people—Adolf Hitler has been procured, authenticated, and sequenced. [...] and from there one can do DNA analysis, even if the sample is somewhat degraded.
[...] The brouhaha centering on Hitler’s micropenis and sexuality has got people worked up because they think that these conditions may have explained Hitler’s behavior. It seems pretty clear that der Füher was not a highly sexed man, but beyond that it’s hard to analyze his psychology [...] And speculations that he had one undescended testicle come not from this genetic study (though the study supports it), but from a doctor’s report made when Hitler was in Landberg Prison.
As for the possibility that Hitler’s behavior was compensation for a micropenis, we have no idea whether he actually had a microphallus. And “likely” is not the right word. In a good article in the Guardian, Philip Oltermann sets out the results of Hitler’s DNA test quite clearly.
[...] For one, the programme finally puts to bed an old rumour that Hitler had Jewish ancestry. Its source is the fact that Hitler’s father Alois was an illegitimate child and the identity of his paternal grandfather was unknown...
[...] The researchers also found robust evidence – the deletion of a letter from a gene called PROK2 – that Hitler had some form of a well-known but rare genetic disorder known as Kallmann syndrome [...] Up to 10% of people with Kallmann syndrome also have a “micropenis”; more prevalent symptoms are low or fluctuating testosterone levels.
[...] When a psychiatric geneticist from Aarhus University presents Hitler’s polygenic risk score for ADHD in the programme, it is shown to be merely “higher than average”. [...] Again, the top half of people in the risk category for ADHD does not mean that Hitler definitely had ADHD, as anybody with brains knows...
[...] Most important of all, aside from the salaciousness of the main claims about his genitals, is that the polygenic risk analysis categorically does NOT and CANNOT be used to ascribe complex psychiatric or psychological traits to an individual. Genetics plays no role in the diagnosis of schizophrenia or ADHD or bipolar. Hitler did not have ‘the gene for schizophrenia’ because there is no such thing... (MORE - details)
