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
Editors seem convinced that dog cloning is a perennial hot topic that readers are just going to love. In fact...
The launch of a genomics company with a difference was announced earlier this month. The individual customers who sign up...
Many scientists seem to think that heritable human genetic modification is too far off to worry about. Others suggest it’s...