(Views of a fetus in the womb, detail from a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci) A team of scientists, led by biologist Kathy Niakan of the Francis Crick Institute, used the genetically engineered CRISPR gene editing technique to create genetically … Read More
The potential use of genetic engineering has brought back past eugenics into bioethics disputes. There are opinions, such as those of Nicholas Agar, according to which non-coercive eugenics programs are inherently ethical. (Fletcher and Wertz 1990) Adherents of liberal eugenics … Read More
Sfetcu, Nicolae (2019). “Eugenics”, in Telework, DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.29167.28326/1, URL = https://www.telework.ro/en/eugenics/ Abstract The main concern of the first eugenists, such as Karl Pearson and Walter Weldon of University College London , were the perceived intelligence factors considered to be … Read More
