Transvision
2003 Panel
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Sunday June 29, 2003
10:45-12:15pm
Linsly-Chittenden Hall,
62 High St., New Haven CT
Closing Keynote Speech
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"Who's Afraid of PostHumanity?
politics and ethics of genetically engineering people"
Ron Bailey
Science Editor Reason Magazine
Fear of posthumanity ranges across the political spectrum from Left
to Right. In fact, strange bedfellow alliances between the Left and
Right have formed as evidenced by joint op/eds by long time leftwing
anti-biotech activist Jeremy Rikfin and conservative Weekly Standard
editor Bill Kristol. My presentation will look at what these groups
fear, and how they are organizing to stop biotech progress. I will show
that their fears are exaggerated and/or misconceived. Biotech advances
will tend to enhance values like liberty and equality rather than
threaten them.
Ron Bailey, the science and ecology correpsondent for the libertarian
Reason Magazine, and the editor of Earth Report 2000. Ron is currently
writing a book entitled, Liberation Biology: A TechnoPolitical Manifesto
for the 21st Century.
