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.

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Biopolitical Times

The Royal Society’s 3-day online substitute for the postponed Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing seems to have been...

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Biopolitical Times posted a brief summary after each session.

The Third International Summit on Human...

On February 14, the San Francisco Chronicle published an important story that may have far-reaching consequences. According to the city’s...