#also related but the biomed research prof was like: our last class will talk about biomed ethics and idk maybe we should be talking about | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

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watching a video for the biomed research class i'm in and this guy is like "i have faith that humans are not going to be using our gene editing abilities (which, for the record, are fairly limited) to make designer babies. we're ethical!" and it's like i wrote an essay on this and there are companies out there already offering genetic screenings of IVF babies for things like eye color and "intelligence". so uh. yeah. you have too much faith.

#unfortunately i didn't back up the fucking essay and lost it when my high school google drive was deleted #which i am annoyed at past me for not saving #yeah it was a bad essay bc i wrote it in a day but i had legit sources #and would like to have them to reference!!#also related but the biomed research prof was like: our last class will talk about biomed ethics and idk maybe we should be talking about #them more than just the last day????? hello???#like we're working with flies and not humans but Still!!!!!!! insane #if i can find time and get into the class im gonna take the biomed ethics class as my last GE #so so so mad i did not back up the essay like what was i thinking #edit: found the essay in a shared folder somewhere. its kind of out of date and i'd like to read like the primary literature but my point #still stands. there is literally a company out there that will screen ur ivf babies for 'low intelligence'#and like the economic inequality alone baked into this whole thing is already a nightmare dont get me started

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