re: #2 researchok

I think the author has very selectively presented the issue at hand, and looking at the comments it has received leads me to believe he is successfully getting his way.

For example:

Adam Turner 7 hours ago
This is very valuable piece, thank you. These are just some of the questions raised by the history and present of genetic medicine; questions that often don’t receive the careful attention they deserve. Another that I would add is: How do we understand the area between “difference,” “disability,” and “disease”? This is a distinction that, though mediated by culture, individual experience, and historical context, has often been glossed over by genetic medicine. These are issues we too often want to pass off as the mistaken beliefs of an ignorant fringe, but that would miss how central they still are to our ways of approaching health and wellness.

No, just no.

From type 1 diabetes to thousands of other biological failures present at birth or expressed through development, failure at the organismal level by malfunctioning cells is not something postmodern moralism can dismiss. Many human health problems can be mitigated or even eliminated through genetic engineering, and no amount of concerned hand wringing by the moralists can change molecular biology.