@sapinker this was written by a prominent British bioethicist. Not all bioethics speak from the same pulpithttp://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/sep/19/misleading-three-parent-babies-gene-therapy …
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@sapinker So technically we can create the master race Mein Führer. Like everything its neither good nor bad. Its how you use it.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker in the words of Renato Dulbecco; "too many bioethicists and not enough biologists around"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Article says child would carry genetic material from mom. Can 1 carry genetic mat from some1 & not be genetically related to them?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker the generalisations of a science journo don't represent all "bioethicists" or even all bioethicists...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker: Can "bioethicists" really not get why a mum might want to be genetically related to her child? Blank Slate lives.” @sfb_waddupThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker There are other explanations besides the evolutionary.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Sorry but "genetically related" is not something our evolutionary ancestors understood.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Bet the intuition is about bodies, not genes. Like wanting to own a jacket a celebrity wore.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Wonder what a mother would have said if she didn't know about genes and was simply told about using an egg from someone else.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Sheldon Krimsky sounds like a fool there but do all who call themselves bioethicists share his views?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker@CHSommers The inhuman arrogance of the phrase "genetic chauvinism".Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@sapinker Can "bioethicists" really not get why a mother might want 2B genetically related 2her child?http://goo.gl/NWDcpr -
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@GodDoesnt "@sapinker The old Orwell comes to mind: ideas so absurd only an academic could believe them."
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@sapinker I concur; as a geneticist myself, I can't understand the near-hysteria over this technique.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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