Gregory Stock thinks it’s already too late to choose whether or not we’re going to tinker with our children’s genes, said Michael Cross in his review of Redesigning Humans (Profile, £8.99, 25 May 2002, page 52): “Stock argues that not only are we already on that slope, but we’re zipping down a black run on our arses, skis flailing.” The debate has already moved to the ways and means of enhancing children’s potential. Worth catching up on an intelligent assessment of the near future.
Perfect that offspring
5 April 2003
