{"id":86478,"date":"2019-01-07T16:43:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/bill-gates-warns-that-nobody-is-paying-attention-to-this-state-of-the-art-scientific-technology-that-could-make-inequality-even-worse"},"modified":"2019-01-07T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T00:43:19","slug":"bill-gates-warns-that-nobody-is-paying-attention-to-this-state-of-the-art-scientific-technology-that-could-make-inequality-even-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/bill-gates-warns-that-nobody-is-paying-attention-to-this-state-of-the-art-scientific-technology-that-could-make-inequality-even-worse","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates warns that nobody is paying attention to this state-of-the-art scientific technology that could make inequality even worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-warns-that-nobody-is-paying-attention-to-this-state-of-the-art-scientific-technology-that-could-make-inequality-even-worse.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gene editing is one of the most promising new approaches to treating human diseases today.<\/p>\n<p>It also raises \u201cenormous\u201d ethical questions, Bill Gates recently warned, and \u201ccould make inequity worse, especially if it is available only for wealthy people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am surprised that these issues haven\u2019t generated more attention from the general public,\u201d he said in a December blog post, adding that \u201cthis might be the most important public debate we haven\u2019t been having widely enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-gates-says-gene-editing-raises-ethical-questions-2019-1\">https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bill-gates-says-gene-editing...2019&#45;1<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gene editing is one of the most promising new approaches to treating human diseases today. It also raises \u201cenormous\u201d ethical questions, Bill Gates recently warned, and \u201ccould make inequity worse, especially if it is available only for wealthy people.\u201d \u201cI am surprised that these issues haven\u2019t generated more attention from the general public,\u201d he said [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86478","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}