August 17, 2019

Dear John,

CGS published two new articles recently we thought you’d want to know about.

Scientists Can’t Be Trusted on Gene Editing
Pete Shanks, The Progressive | 08.14.2019
Two recent bombshells — one involving the genetically modified babies created by a reckless researcher, and the other the late financier and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein — have brought into stark relief the reality that scientific self-regulation will never be enough to protect the public from success-driven myopia and conflicts of interest.

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Rigorous Pathway or Runaway Train?
Katie Hasson, Biopolitical Times | 08.15.2019
We urgently need a clear signal that no one should go ahead with clinical uses of heritable human genome editing. The first meeting of the International Commission on the Clinical Use of Human Germline Genome Editing did not provide one.

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Sincerely,