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
Five years ago, Time magazine published the cover story illustrated at left: Can Google Solve Death? We have an answer...
As part of the American Experience series, PBS has produced a documentary and website about the 20th-century eugenics movement in...
Senator Elizabeth Warren has released the results of a DNA analysis bolstering her family’s belief that their ancestry is partly...