{"id":102052,"date":"2020-02-07T17:43:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/embrace-human-genome-editing"},"modified":"2020-02-07T17:43:22","modified_gmt":"2020-02-08T01:43:22","slug":"embrace-human-genome-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/02\/embrace-human-genome-editing","title":{"rendered":"Embrace human genome editing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XAhFoaT6Kik?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Imagine then, the emancipatory potential of genome editing for these millions.<\/p>\n<p>Realizing this potential, however, will require that genome editing meet with societal approval. The typical response right now when you talk to someone about genetic engineering or reproductive technology is a reference to \u2018designer babies,\u2019 eugenics, Nazism, and other evils. These arguments have a very powerful emotional hold over many people, but in my opinion, they simply don\u2019t stand up to scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>Numerous traits, both physical and mental, are too complex to ever be able to engineer, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/brainwaves\/are-we-too-close-to-making-gattaca-a-reality\/\">Gattaca-like<\/a> future of \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/massivesci.com\/articles\/crispr-dna-editing-designer-babies\/\">designer babies<\/a>\u2019 is probably just as improbable as time-travel. No serious scientist or ethicist is advocating for government mandated \u2018genetic correction\u2019 of the sort Nazism or eugenics implies. As for physical appearance, everyone has their own ideas about the \u2018physical ideal.\u2019 Not every visitor to a cosmetic surgeon comes out looking Northern European.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine then, the emancipatory potential of genome editing for these millions. Realizing this potential, however, will require that genome editing meet with societal approval. The typical response right now when you talk to someone about genetic engineering or reproductive technology is a reference to \u2018designer babies,\u2019 eugenics, Nazism, and other evils. These arguments have a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412,1490,47,1515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-government","category-neuroscience","category-time-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}