GMWatch on De-Extinction, Designer Babies, Gene Drives and More
The Center for Genetics and Society is delighted to recommend the current edition of GMWatch Review – Number 589. UK-based GMWatch, a long-standing ally, was founded in 1998 by Jonathan Matthews as an independent organization seeking to counter the enormous corporate political power and propaganda of the GMO industry and its supporters. Matthews and Claire Robinson are its directors and managing editors.
CGS works to ensure that social justice, equity, human rights, and democratic governance are front and center in public and policy debates about human genetics and assisted reproduction. We confront the ways in which misuses of genetic and reproductive technologies could both revive pernicious eugenic ideas and practices, and exacerbate already dire levels of inequality.
This issue of the Review, which Robinson says was largely compiled by Matthews, focuses primarily on issues at the core of the CGS mission:
Our latest Review provides updates on an array of biotech developments and accompanying mythologies: from gene drives to cloning, from transhumanism to CRISPR babies, from lab-grown sperm to de-extinction disinformation, from AI-assisted gene editing to immortality projects. What unites many of these is not just the massive gap between the myth making and the reality, but the immense financial and political leverage now propelling them forward.
We strongly recommend it.