CRISPR & the Forbidden Genome: Editing Ethics and the Superhuman Arms Race
Cold Logic by Myia Hanson and Jeremy Hanson
Episode notes
In this cinematic episode of Cold Logic, Silas Gray pulls back the veil on the explosive frontier of human alteration: CRISPR and the Forbidden Genome. Once the stuff of speculative fiction, genome editing is now real, precise, and inheritable—and the global conversation over who gets to rewrite humanity is fracturing. From the medical breakthrough of CRISPR-based therapies like Casgevy that are curing sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia, to the scandal of the “CRISPR babies” and the uneasy comeback of He Jiankui, this episode traces the scientific, ethical, geopolitical, and human stakes in the emerging superhuman arms race. We dig into the international push for a moratorium on heritable human genome editing, the fractured governance landscape (including WHO’s frameworks), the rise of clandestine enhancement programs and black-market editing, ...
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