Pete Shanks
Pete Shanks, MA, attended Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and moved to California in the mid-1970s. He has been active in a range of local and international political movements, while mostly making his living in the publishing industry, especially on the production side; he enjoys the craft of bookmaking. Appalled by the eugenic possibilities of biotechnology, he has consulted with the Center for Genetics and Society since its earliest days. He is the author of Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed (Nation Books) and a regular contributor to Biopolitical Times.
Publications
On May 10, about 130 scientists, entrepreneurs and others held an invitation-only event at Harvard. Organisers told invitees not to...
In the News
Let’s Not Distort Debates about Human Cloning and Heritable Gene Editing
Cloning is back in the headlines. Researchers managed to...
The direct-to-consumer (DTC) genetic testing industry has been around for just over a decade. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
The next year may represent our best chance to prevent the rise of a modern, uncontrolled and dangerously ill-considered techno-eugenics...
Biopolitical Times
HFEA logo & some post-its from the Citizens Jury
Hundreds of scientists (and a few others) will be in London...
"Golden mitochondria" by National Institutes of Health
(NIH) is licensed under CC BY-NC 2.0.
A controversial embryo...
Advocates of legalizing heritable human genome editing (HGE) in the UK are skipping right over the relevant questions – whether...