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Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World
Wesley J Smith
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Description for Consumer's Guide to a Brave New World
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: TCB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 230 x 22. Weight in Grams: 380.
Cloning researchers claim to have created an embryo that is mostly human, but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as "products" for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited master-race thinking, James Watson, who won a Nobel Prize for codiscovering the DNA double helix, claims that genetically enhanced people will someday "dominate the world." Events are moving so fast--and biotechnology seems so complicated--that many of us worry we can't have an informed opinion about these issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes. Now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to ... Read more
Cloning researchers claim to have created an embryo that is mostly human, but also part animal. Biotech companies brag about manufacturing human embryos as "products" for use in medical treatments. Echoing long discredited master-race thinking, James Watson, who won a Nobel Prize for codiscovering the DNA double helix, claims that genetically enhanced people will someday "dominate the world." Events are moving so fast--and biotechnology seems so complicated--that many of us worry we can't have an informed opinion about these issues that are remaking the human future before our very eyes. Now Wesley J. Smith provides us with a guide to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Encounter Books,USA United States
Number of pages
219
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781594034923
SKU
V9781594034923
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99-15
About Wesley J Smith
WESLEY J. SMITH is the award-winning author of Forced Exit, Culture of Death, and A Rat Is a Pig Is a Dog Is a Boy. He is a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute and a special consultant to the Center for Bioethics and Culture. He lives with his wife, the syndicated columnist Debra J. Saunders, in Castro Valley, ... Read more
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