“It’s elementary.. dear Sherlock”, so said Dr. Watson to the cloned super-detective. “It seems unfair that some people don’t get the same opportunity. Once you have a way in which you can improve our children, no-one can stop it. It would be stupid not to use it because someone else will. Those parents who enhance […]

I want this researchers job.. the guy spends two and a half years hanging around seedy and not-so-seedy places watching people kiss..! On second thoughts, maybe not. Imagine the pent-up frustrations, the high cost of hotel porn..? But that’s not what I found interesting about his research. It was the implication that the less passionate […]

The WHO is actually recommending (link requires registration) that developing countries invest in genetic services as part of more holistic and complete health care system. I’m surprised that the WHO has not thought through some of the obvious unintended consequences of this recommendation. Several cultures in developing countries have a rather, well, different view of […]

Over at Richard Bennett’s Blog, Gene Expression has been charged with being racist.. oh well! Honest debate about HBD and the consequences to social policy is not racism, but then I doubt that Richard bothers to read past the headlines and blog-bytes gnenerated on GNXP. Razib adds: Racist? God-that-I-don’t-believe-in I’m tired of this crap. I’ve […]