Subject: Who do you turn to?
From: Center for Genetics and Society <[email-masked]>
To: "Subscriber " <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:40:04 +0000

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Dear Subscriber,
Do these 2015 headlines alarm you as much as they do us?
*Some prominent scientists push for &ldquo;editing&rdquo; the genes of future generations, even as others &ndash; along with hundreds of scholars, policymakers, and public interest advocates &ndash; warn against creating GM humans.
*Ads for &ldquo;High IQ eggs&rdquo; appear on Facebook targeting young college students.
*Discredited ideas about race as a biological category creep into lawsuits, journalism, and biomedical and scientific research.
*Meeting in a restaurant, unscrupulous surrogacy brokers offer to sell a baby they had brought with them to a reporter posing as an interested parent.
*The cloning researcher behind one of the most scandalous episodes of scientific fraud in recent memory stages a comeback, striking new deals and talking again about human cloning.
*Investors bet hundreds of millions of dollars that the direct-to-consumer genetic testing business will become profitable, while companies plan &ldquo;App Stores&rdquo; to sell the latest genetic claims.
*On the basis of a &ldquo;near match&rdquo; in an ancestry DNA database, Idaho police falsely accuse a young man of a fatal stabbing.
Where will you turn for reliable information on these developments? We hope you turn to us.
We&rsquo;re working with public interest advocates and politically engaged scholars to raise awareness of the social justice challenges raised by these human biotechnologies. But we need you.
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Only with your support will we be able to respond rapidly, accurately, and fearlessly when biotech developments threaten to undermine social justice and human rights.
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Warm wishes,
Marcy Darnovsky, Executive Director
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