breeding for beauty/intelligence

[Michael Pugliese]

<URL: http://www.genetics-and-society.org/resources/cgs/ >
<URL: http://www.lifeissues.net/writer.php?ID=dar >
Marcy Darnovsky Biographical Note:
<URL: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1140_reg_print.html >
Marcy Darnovsky, Ph.D., works with the Exploratory Initiative on the New 
Human Genetic Technologies, and teaches courses in the politics of science, 
technology, and the environment in the Hutchins School of Liberal Studies 
at Sonoma State University, California. He is also involved in putting out 
an E-mail newsletter which stems from the work of academics, activists, and 
others in the San Francisco Bay Area who are concerned about the direction 
of the new human genetic technologies. They support technologies that serve 
the public interest, and oppose those -- including human germline 
engineering and human cloning -- that foster inequality, discrimination, 
objectification, and the commodification of human genes and tissues. This 
newsletter is intended to alert and inform concerned individuals about the 
new technologies and the techno-eugenic vision. Contact: teel at adax.com

Articles at Lifeissues: The New Eugenics The Case Against Genetically 
Modified Humans Many people are reluctant to oppose human germline 
engineering because they believe that 'genetics' will deliver medical cures 
or treatments. But there is no reason that we cannot forgo germline 
engineering and still support other genetic technologies that do in fact 
hold promising medical potential. In fact, the medical justifications for 
human germline engineering are strained, while its ethical and political 
risks are profound.

-- 
Michael Pugliese

"Without knowing that we knew nothing, we went on talking without listening to 

 each other. Sometimes we flattered and praised each other, understanding that 

 we would be flattered and praised in return. Other times we abused and shouted 

 at each other, as if we were in a madhouse."
-Tolstoy