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.
Biopolitical Times
Who should live and who should die? That brutal and generally unspoken question is behind all the eugenic reactions to...
Unless voters pass a proposition allocating new funding, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), established by a 2004...
The COVID-19 pandemic is highlighting forms of discrimination that many well-meaning people have managed to ignore for many years. This...