No Thanks to Genetically Engineered Kids
Orley Hood of The Clarion-Ledger has written a satire about designer children. He characterizes geneticists as “wormy little nerds scurrying around like rats,” but I’ll forgive him in the name of art and literature. Here’s an excerpt:
Don’t laugh, my friends. Igor’s masters are hard at work even as we speak, slaving away at their nuclear-powered microscopes, separating the genetic wheat from the genetic chaff, the undesirable qualities from …
Well, let’s just call it how we see it. The prospective “D” genes from the Summa Cum Laude genes. The Michael Jordan DNA from the stumblebum DNA. The class of a generation from the class clown.
Every day that goes by, the little people in white lab coats get just that much closer to being able to manipulate genes, to smooth out the rough edges of Mom and Dad’s sacred collaboration, to – more or less – add value to their seed.
A bit over the top but a fun read nonetheless.
Tags: designer children, genetic engineering, genetics, genes, dna, diseases, illness, health
