The CRISPR Baby Scandal Gets Worse by the Day
This is inevitable. Folks with a will to do this (edit embryos) can clearly do so. In fact this &#x27;researcher&#x27; (or con man) did it &#x27;in secret&#x27; which means without any institutional support. If this guy can do it in his basement, then what hope is there of putting the genie back in the bottle?<p>Folks go to all sorts of crazy medical clinics already, for all sorts of crazy reasons. I predict within the year, the rise of a &#x27;custom baby&#x27; clinic in some country with lazy medical ethic enforcement. And folks will flock there and pay through the nose.<p>All the argument in the OP is irrelevant. The technical reasons this instance went wrong are irrelevant. The ethics argument is irrelevant.<p>We have to suit up, to prepare to deal with designer babies among us in their thousands, and soon.