Mike Solana

Genetic engineering is controversial, and in the context of modifying humans the topic has gone fully nuclear in the mainstream press. I believe we need to defend the subject broadly, and the scientists working in the field specifically.

Throughout time our most important thinkers have been attacked for being different, and here's the thing — we all KNOW this is true. And we all KNOW the radical ideas, the crazy people, are what moves our civilization forward. We worship the heretics of our culture's past. BUT.

While our most famous scientists alive talk about "the plight of the scientist" broadly, note these people are themselves almost never controversial. They're defending canon. No one with power is disagreeing. We reward the contrarian aesthetic, but never the actual thing.