[–] 8887766554433221 [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Are they cloning people with this genetic quirk?
I was thinking about this the other day. I don't think they're cloning, that's too much risky business. I think it would be easier to track people with the gene and monitor their offspring. When you find what you want, you pay the parents and the kid goes missing. Perhaps they create the blob in a lab and find a surrogate? Maybe the parents aren't really the parents? What if it's Soros' offspring? What if he is breeding his own children with frozen semen?
[–] 8887766554433221 [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
In which way is it risky business?
The revolution in human genomics has spawned profuse commentary about the perils of cloning and human genetic enhancement. But these fears may be misplaced. When people realize that cloning is just forgoing a genetically unique child for an identical twin of one of the parents, rather than resurrecting a soul or investing in an organ farm, I suspect no one will want to do it. And when they realize that most genes have costs as well as benefits (a gene might raise a child's IQ but also predispose him to a genetic disease), "designer babies" will lose whatever appeal they have. In contrast, the power to uncover genetic and evolutionary roots of group differences in psychological traits is both more likely to materialize and more incendiary in its consequences. And it is a prospect that we are, intellectually and emotionally, very poorly equipped to confront.
McCann was IVF and her genetic eye anomaly apparently changes depending on the photograph, this coupled with the "parents" reluctance to publicise early on what would be a brilliant identifying marker for the general public. Is she the child of Soros? I cannot answer that.
[–] 8887766554433221 [S] 1 point -1 points 0 points (+0|-1) ago
Certainly.