We should not fear 'editing' embryos to enhance human intelligence, says leading geneticist George Church

One of the world’s leading geneticists says it will only be a matter of time before the genes of human embryos are ‘edited’ to enhance their health and intelligence – and it is something we should embrace rather than fear.

George Church, Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, said the current controversy surrounding the editing of human embryos was overblown and compared it to the short lived moral panic that preceded the introduction of IVF or “test tube babies” in the late 1970s.

Interviewed for a feature in this week’s Telegraph Magazine Church, who made his name as part of the international team that first mapped the human genome in 2003, said he was less worried about gene editing being used to enhance human intelligence than the technique being restricted to a privileged few. He predicted it would eventually be “adopted worldwide”.

“I just don't think that blue eyes and [an extra] 15 IQ points is really a public health threat,” he said, “I don't think it's a threat to our morality.”


https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/03/16/should-not-fear-editing-embryos-enhance-human-intelligence-says/


Has this dude never watched Star Trek before?



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVeVtz1Zcig

Ethics in genetics.
Frigging minefield!!

Who exactly gets to use this, everyone or just those who can afford it. Do we end up with a kind of Morlock and Eloi society?

Vintage wrote:Who exactly gets to use this, everyone or just those who can afford it. Do we end up with a kind of Morlock and Eloi society?

depends on the economic system I guess   

You could put it on the NHS  

I'd support Medicare paying to make everyone 15 IQ points smarter, it would pay off in a generation or 2

NO. NO. NO.

JUST NO!

eddie wrote:
NO. NO. NO.
JUST NO!

Y U sit on fence ?  


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