Eugenics
Will this dog hunt?
By Jeremy Manier Will Saletan of Slate gave this new blog a very gracious shout-out yesterday – many thanks. He also replied to my earlier post taking Will to task a bit about “designer dogs.” I’d suggested that dog breeding is a bad analogy to bring home the problems of genetic trait selection in humans, because […]
Who’s afraid of designer dogs?
By Jeremy Manier William Saletan of Slate has a nice piece this week warning of recent developments that could bring genetically selected “designer babies” a step closer to reality. He begins by noting that the idea is so shopworn that he’d stopped taking it seriously – me, too. Then he goes on to list some […]
