“Here come three-parent children”

“Here come three-parent children” December 3, 2016

 

Huxley's most famous novel, USA 1952
1952 Bantam edition cover (Wikimedia Commons)

 

Does anybody else out there find this at least slightly worrisome?

 

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/442695/here-come-three-parent-children

 

Call me crazy, but I’m not quite entirely certain that humanity is wise enough or good enough to initiate such fundamental changes.  We worry about tinkering with small ecosystems, lest we cause unforeseen and possibly disastrous ripple effects.  But fundamentally transforming human reproductive biology and basic human social structures?  No biggie!

 

 


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