>>420 He’s not wrong and it’s a pretty clean sociological observation that allowing people to abort fetuses and engineer designer babies would just be a repeat of the Nazi euthanasia program. It seems some serious players (Peter Thiel) have thrown a lot of money into research on how better to detect fetuses with defective genes or edit genes so that undesirable traits will be weeded out. Basically, they saw Gattica and have decided to make it real and they have the money to do it.
He’s not wrong and it’s a pretty clean sociological observation that allowing people to abort fetuses and engineer designer babies would just be a repeat of the Nazi euthanasia program. It seems some serious players (Peter Thiel) have thrown a lot of money into research on how better to detect fetuses with defective genes or edit genes so that undesirable traits will be weeded out. Basically, they saw Gattica and have decided to make it real and they have the money to do it.