Pete Shanks
Pete Shanks, MA, attended Oxford University, where he studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics, and moved to California in the mid-1970s. He has been active in a range of local and international political movements, while mostly making his living in the publishing industry, especially on the production side; he enjoys the craft of bookmaking. Appalled by the eugenic possibilities of biotechnology, he has consulted with the Center for Genetics and Society since its earliest days. He is the author of Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed (Nation Books) and a regular contributor to Biopolitical Times.
Biopolitical Times
Nothing is normal. Nothing is stable. Nothing is entirely predictable, as the COVID-19 pandemic rages, except that eugenics will raise...
Human Nature, a documentary about gene editing that had been due to open in many theaters in March, is...
The debates around heritable human genome editing continue, with position statements and recommendations being issued without yet forming a deep...