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

Assisted Reproduction at 30

By Pete Shanks, Cutting Edge News | 08.25.2008

Thirty years ago the assisted reproduction industry was born. From tiny but noisy beginnings, it grew through an occasionally troubled...

Assisted Reproduction

Food from Cloned Animals

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, San Francisco Chronicle | 10.05.2007

Californians should be allowed to know what they're eating. That's the simple reason why Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should sign SB63...

Biotech & Pharma

Unmasking the FDA’s Policy on Cloned Food

By Osagie K. Obasogie and Pete Shanks, The Cutting Edge | 08.12.2007

The FDA is still considering whether to allow meat and milk from cloned animals into America's food chain, without so...

Animal Biotechnologies

In the News

A Troublesome Controversy

By Pete Shanks, The Huffington Post | 06.09.2014

Nicholas Wade's book A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History has been out for a month, and the fuss...

Advocating Eugenics in the UK Department of Education

By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.28.2013

Dominic Cummings, a senior adviser to the UK Secretary of State for Education, recently provoked a flurry of complaints by...

Google vs. Death? Really?

By Pete Shanks, Huffington Post | 10.03.2013

Has Google gone right off the deep end? It's common for techies to be infatuated with transhumanism and other far-out...

Biopolitical Times

Natalism and Hipster Eugenics

By Pete Shanks | 09.21.2023

^{Front page of the Natal Conference website}

Last November, this blog published a piece with the title “Hipster Eugenics...

Global Governance

Ineffective Altruism, Apocalypse, and Human Genetic Enhancement

By Pete Shanks | 07.21.2023

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The first part of...

Lessons From A Cloning Scandal

By Pete Shanks | 07.07.2023

^{Poster for King of Clones (Netflix documentary) via Wikipedia}

Back in the early years of this century, the most prominent...

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