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

At least five separate studies involving human embryo research are raising fresh versions of old questions about science, ethics and...

Dominic Cummings, Boris Johnson’s former brain (he was forced out last November), claims not to know what eugenics is. This...

In recent weeks, at least four publications (1, 2, 3, 4) have urged a change...