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.
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Biopolitical Times
Advocates of legalizing heritable human genome editing (HGE) in the UK are skipping right over the relevant questions – whether...
Photo: The He Lab, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
He Jiankui, the Chinese scientist who in 2018 infamously...
Gene therapy has been the next big thing in medicine for decades. Until recent years, the results were underwhelming. Now...