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Of course it is a very simple matter to identify genes which might modify intelligence or memory and start thinking about whether you want to enhance a human, and the next generation is going to have to deal with that issue. Should we be trying to enhance humans rather than trying to educate them and so on?

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Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened in medieval times and exploited during the Industr…

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I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallaciou…

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I think that good parenting should allow children to be children. That naivety and slightly open way of looking at the world is very valuable.

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We can't any longer have the conventional understanding of genetics which everybody peddles because it is increasingly obvious that epigenetics - act…

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Scientists need to be prepared to engage, and the best people to engage with are students, ideally from primary school because there's no question th…

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Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to mo…

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Nearly all inventions are not recognised for their positive side either when they're made. So, for example, scientists didn't go out to design a CD m…

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It is important that legislation keeps pace with scientific progress.

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Both in Britain and America, huge publicity has been given to stem cells, particularly embryonic stem cells, and the potential they offer. Of course,…

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