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Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered children

  • Written by George Estreich, Instructor, Oregon State University, Oregon State University
Screening the human future: YouTube, persuasion and genetically engineered childrenIn a masterfully manipulative Youtube video, He Jiankui tells the world about the first genetically edited babies.AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein

On Sunday, Nov. 25, the scientist He Jiankui claimed the birth of the world’s first genetically engineered children: twins, created by IVF, their DNA altered at fertilization. Changes like these, because...

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