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“In quixotically trying to conquer death doctors all too frequently do no good for their patients鈥� 鈥渆ase鈥� but at the same time they do harm instead by prolonguing and even magnifying patients鈥� dis-ease.”
― Prescription Medicide
― Prescription Medicide

“This (...) had made me aware for the first time of the well-disguised myth that they and the academic institutions they represent are bastions of a free exchange of ideas. They are -but only of those ideas that don't 'rock the boat', that refrain from challenging hallowed taboos.”
― Prescription Medicide
― Prescription Medicide

“Genetic technology might have to be rechristened "genetic art," for every work of art was an act of creation, and no act of creation was finer or more beautiful than the creation of an intelligent mind.”
― Watchers
― Watchers

“It鈥檚 not that I was categorically opposed to the idea of scientists and physicians using gene editing to introduce heritable changes into the human genome.”
― A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
― A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
“Congress acknowledged that society's accumulated myths and fears about disability and disease are as handicapping as are the physical limitations that flow from actual impairment.”
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“Eugenics has become a dirty word in popular culture because of its excesses in the early twentieth century, including forced sterilization laws in the USA and Germany (which were applied to the 鈥榝eebleminded鈥� but sometimes also to epileptics and even sexual deviants). But a lot of the criticism of eugenics conflates what Galton and many modern academics in bioethics mean by 鈥榚ugenics鈥� with how the Nazis misused it [...] Moral grandstanding has become so common in connection with the word that journalists often use 鈥榚ugenics鈥� to mean something like 鈥榰njust coercion of innocent parents鈥�. But Galton and Darwin would have rejected this, and so should we. According to Leonard Darwin, Charles Darwin鈥檚 son and past president of the Eugenics Society of England, 鈥楨ugenics is the study of heredity as it may be applied to the betterment, mental and physical, of the human race鈥� [...] While people disagree about precisely which traits are worth promoting, what motivates eugenics is a concern that individual welfare depends in part on the average traits of a population, and that demographic trends matter to the extent that they influence the success or failure of entire populations.”
― Creating Future People
― Creating Future People
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