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
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has now spent almost all of the $3 billion of public funds (which...
After the heritable human gene editing headlines of late 2018, and considering that the stakes include the future of human...
Last year’s heritable human gene editing scandal continues to reverberate. He Jiankui remains under investigation in China, where authorities have...