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
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
23andMe’s stock price since late 2020
23andMe, the first-off-the-blocks personal genomics company, has been struggling lately. In October, there were...
Screenshot from 1988 SNL skit
Modern transhumanists can be remarkably absurd. Case in point: the Enhanced Games. Peter Thiel...
Dean Phillips campaign event, 1/17/24; image by
Artaxerxes, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Political rookies are rarely elected...