Bernie’s Time Machine: The Genius Sperm Bank
A look at manufacturing smart kids in the 90s.
“We don’t want to waste genius sperm on morons.”
In 1991 for 48 Hours, I reported on a California sperm bank — a very exclusive one —that specialized in producing exceptionally smart kids.
The company even had “sperm recruiters” who sought out and essentially cold-called notably smart donors.
One of the “genius kids” I covered in the story, Doron Blake, was coincidentally written about in a New York Post story on the bank just a couple months ago. Now a father of two, he has some interesting (and perhaps surprising) views on how he was conceived.
