Testaments and Blood Samples to Establish a “Global DNA Data Bank”?

Testaments and Blood Samples to Establish a “Global DNA Data Bank”?

Have you ever had to answer the question whether “you have your personal things in order” when entering a hospital? “No”, I guess is the answer for most of us. Well in Switzerland, the epicenter of neoliberalism and the home of the WEF, this question has become a standard feature in Swiss Hospital Admission forms,…

Is Gene Editing the New Name for Eugenics? “Enter Bill Gates”

Is Gene Editing the New Name for Eugenics? “Enter Bill Gates”

A major new technology known as Gene Editing has gained significant attention in recent months. Its advocates claim it will revolutionize everything from agriculture production to disease treatment. None other than Bill Gates has just come out in an article in the US foreign policy magazine Foreign Affairs in praise of the promise of gene…

Study Buried for Four Years Shows Crime Lab DNA Testing Is Severely Flawed

Study Buried for Four Years Shows Crime Lab DNA Testing Is Severely Flawed

DNA is supposed to be the gold standard of evidence. Supposedly so distinct it would be impossible to convict the wrong person, yet DNA evidence has been given far more credit than it’s earned. Part of the problem is that it’s indecipherable to laypeople. That has allowed crime lab technicians to testify to a level…

Our Assembly-Line Future?

Our Assembly-Line Future?

Human civilization has taken an important turn with the publication of a new report by the Nuffield Council, the semi-official bioethics agency of the United Kingdom. The document, two years in preparation, gives the go-ahead to genetically engineer human beings at the embryonic stages of development. The report stated: “There is potential for heritable genome…