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
Ten years ago last week, on what would have been the tenth birthday of the first cloned mammal, the soon-to-be-world-famous...
On June 8, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine issued a report about gene drives, titled:
Gene Drives on...
What is the speed limit where you live? In California, it varies but the maximum is 112.654 kph. In France, the...