-WELCOME TO TEEL
-UPDATE AND PLANNING MEETING - TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
-POINTERS
I. Workshop announcement: "Human Genetic Modification:
Understanding the Technologies, Assessing the Politics"
(UC Berkeley, Sunday, October 10)
II. "Asilomar 2" -- February 2000
III. An important cover story in the current Der Speigel:
"Hitler, Neitzsche, Dolly und der neue Philosophen-Streit:
Gen-Projekt Ubermensch"
IV. Recent developments promoting human techno-eugenics
V. Recent developments opposing techno-eugenics
I. WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT: "The Ethics and Politics of
Human
Germline Engineering" (UC Berkeley, Sunday, December 5)
II. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND STATEMENTS OPPOSING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. Anti-eugenics protest in London at Galton Society
2. John Horgan calls techno-eugenic predictions "irresponsible"
3. Jedediah Purdy on human genetic engineering
4. New article on human genetic engineering by Leon Kass
III. RECENT DEVELOPMENTS AND STATEMENTS PROMOTING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. Time magazine provides forum for designer baby advocates
2. Developments in research on artificial chromosomes
3. Francis Fukuyama: The end of (human) history, reconsidered
4. Bioethicist Arthur Caplan predicts designer babies
5. Lester Thurow advocates genetic enhancement
IV. OTHER POINTERS AND NEWS
1. German philosophers debate eugenic engineering
2. New web site on early American eugenics movement
3. Japanese cloning researchers break the rules
I. A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
II. FOUR IMPORTANT EVENTS
1. January 27 California State Human Cloning Advisory Committee
(Oakland, CA)
2. February 15-17 Symposium on Science and Ethics in Society:
The
25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference (Pacific Grove, CA)
3. February 21 AAAS Human Germline Engineering Symposium
(Washington DC)
4. March 25-27 Biodevastation 4: The 4th International Grassroots
Gathering on Genetic Engineering and the Corporate Theft of
Our Food (Boston, MA)
III. OTHER NEWS AND POINTERS
1. Hudson Institute briefs Margaret Thatcher and others on
human
genetic engineering
2. Novartis Foundation invites Arthur Jensen to lecture on IQ
3. "The Ethics and Politics of Germline Engineering"
workshop
materials available
I. RECENT EVENTS
1. Report on California Advisory Committee on Human Cloning,
Oakland, CA, 1/27/00
II. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. "Asilomar 2000" meeting to assess development
and regulation
of genetic engineering, Pacific Grove, CA, 2/15 - 2/17/00
2. AAAS symposium, "Changing the Human Future Through Germline
Engineering," Washington, DC, 2/21/00
3. "The New Human Genetic Technologies and Social Justice,"
Santa Cruz, CA, March 1
III. NEWS AND POINTERS SUPPORTING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. New Scientist: "The Last Taboo"
2. Lord Robert Winston: "Genetically Modified Babies Inevitable"
3. Charles Murray: "Deeper into the Brain"
IV. NEWS AND POINTERS OPPOSING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. Richard Hayes: "In the Pipeline: Genetically Modified
Humans?"
2. International Network on Bioethics and Disability
I. SPECIAL REPORT ON THE ASILOMAR 25TH ANNIVERSARY SYMPOSIUM
1. Thanks to signators of the Open Letter
2. Report on the Symposium on Science, Ethics and Society:
The 25th Anniversary of the Asilomar Conference
3. Agenda of the Asilomar Symposium
II. UPCOMING EVENT
1. "The New Human Genetic Technologies and Social Justice,"
Santa Cruz, CA, March 1
III. NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. Annas, Caplan, and Elias criticize Geron's Ethics
Advisory Board
2. Wired Magazine: Prestigious researchers at Extropy
Institute conference
3. New book and website from Gregory Stock and John Campbell
4. American Association for the Advancement of Science:
Recommendations on Human Germline Genetic Engineering
IV. ABOUT THE TECHNO-EUGENICS EMAIL LIST NEWSLETTER
V. ADDENDUM: OPEN LETTER TO PARTICIPANTS IN THE ASILOMAR SYMPOSIUM
I. RECENT EVENTS
1. Computer scientist Bill Joy warns of dangers posed by
genetic engineering, nanotechnolgoy, and robotics
2. Conference on "Extended Life / Eternal Life"
3. Biodevastation 2000 addresses human genetic technologies
II. NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. New book by Gregory Stock and John Campbell promotes
human germline engineering
2. Council for Responsible Genetics issues "Genetic Bill
of
Rights"
3. More media attention to advocates of techno-eugenics
III. MORE LINKS TO NEWS ABOUT HUMAN GENETIC TECHNOLOGIES
1. Japan may make human cloning a crime
2. Jeremy Rifkin's comments on proposed moratorium on
somatic gene therapy trials using viral vectors
3. Scandal over Iceland's plan for a private gene database
4. EU challenges patent on human cloning
5. Atlantic Monthly article on corporate-university ties
6. Critique of the "basketball gene"
IV. NOTICES AND REQUEST FROM THE EDITORS
1. Summer course on human genetics offered at UC Berkeley
2. Correction to TEEL #5
I. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. ALERT: California Human Cloning Advisory Committee meets
in San Francisco on Monday, May 15
2. "Rethinking ELSI," Harvard University, May 15-16
3. "The New Techno-Eugenics and the Threat to Global Equity
and Human Development," Harvard University, May 18
4. "Enhancing the Human" symposium with Gregory Stock,
Peter
Sloterdijk, Daniel Kevles, Paul Billings, Gregory Benford;
UCLA, May 21
5. "The Operable Human," Peter Sloterdijk, Harvard University,
May 19
II. NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. "The Eugenic Temptation" by Everett Mendelsohn
2. "On the New Eugenics" by Steve Talbott
3. SOS Human Genome: Campaign to Ban Patents on Human Genes
4. Genetic Scientist Would Ban Human Germline Modification
I. BREAKING NEWS: HUMAN GENOME SEQUENCING ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENT
II. A NOTE FROM THE EDITORS
III. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. Campaign Against Human Genetic Engineering press briefing on
the Human Genome Project, June 14, London
2. Exploratory Initiative on the New Human Genetic Technologies
on KPFA Morning Show, June 14, Berkeley, CA
3. Technology & Society Committee, July 18, Mountain View,
CA
IV. RECENT EVENT
1. Report on "Enhancing the Human" symposium
V. NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. RAND study: "Biotechnology and Global Governance"
2. Physicist Freeman Dyson says germline engineering would lead
to new human species
3. James Watson endorses scientists "playing God"
4. "Technocalypse" -- Dutch television on post-human
genetics
I. AFTER THE SEQUENCING ANNOUNCEMENT
1. The New Politics of Human Genetics: A Comment and a Request
2. Collins and Venter on Human Germline Engineering
3. Noteworthy Post-Announcement Media Accounts
II. NEWS AND POINTERS REGARDING TECHNO-EUGENICS
1. "Human Genetics Calendar 2000 to 2040" by Corporate
Futurist
Joseph Coates
2. Lee Silver on "Type I" and "Type II" Enhancements
3. Stuart Newman on the Hazards of Developmental Gene Modification
4. Support for Genetic Discrimination
5. Behind the Jesse Gelsinger Story
6. Reporting Rules for Gene Therapy Experiments to be Loosened
Number 11 September 19, 2000
I. AAAS RELEASES REPORT ON HUMAN GERMLINE ENGINEERING
II. NEWS AND POINTERS
1. New Policies on Human Embryo Research in the US and UK
2. European Parliament Opposes UK Move on Embryo Cloning
3. British Medical Experts Predict Human Cloning Despite
Strong Public Opposition
4. Supporters of Human Cloning Press Ahead
5. "Disability Rights Critique of Prenatal Genetic Testing"
III. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. Gene Media Forum, New York City, September 20
2. California Cloning Committee, Los Angeles, September 22
I. EDITORS' NOTE
II. NOT A DESIGNER BABY: Embryo Selection Provides Tissue Match
for Sick Sister
III. NEWS AND POINTERS
1. New Bans on Human Genetic Modification in Japan and Netherlands
2. Greenpeace Prevents Patents on Pig-Human Embryos
3. Gelsinger Wrongful Death Lawsuit Names Bioethicist Caplan
IV. RECENT EVENTS
1. California Cloning Committee Meets in Los Angeles
2. Scientists, Activists, and Biotech Execs Debate Human Genetic
Modification at State of the World Forum
V. UPCOMING EVENTS AND NEW RESOURCES
1. Sessions on Human Genetic Modification at Bioneers 2000,
San Rafael, California, October 20-22
2. "Preventing the Misuse of Genetic Technologies,"
New York
Open Center, Saturday November 11
3. "Made Not Born:" Anthology on Biotechnology Available
Soon
4. Art Exhibits on Biotechnology
I. NEWS
1. Netherlands Bank Code: No Funds for Human Genetic Modification
2. Human Cloning Effort by Religious Group Reportedly to Begin
3. New Comments on Human Genetic Modification by Noted Figures:
James Watson, Daniel Wikler, Gregory Stock
4. Lawsuit in Gene Therapy Death Settled; Suspended Experiment
Allowed to Resume
5. Embryo Cloning Debate Grows in Europe and UK
6. New Push for In Utero Gene Transfer
II. POINTERS
1. Wild Duck Review
2. James Watson and Matt Ridley in San Francisco February 8
GENETIC CROSSROADS #14 January 7, 2001
I. EDITORS' NOTE
II. NEWS AND POINTERS
1. E Magazine Cover Story: "Designing People"
2. French Best-Selling Novel Celebrates a Post-Human Future
3. Disabled Peoples International Statement on Human Genetics
4. Two New Techniques Developed for Producing "Designer Sperm"
5. Bill Prohibiting Human Cloning Introduced in Texas
6. Flood of Responses to Watson's Genetic Determinism
III. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. "A Decade of ELSI Research," January 16-18, Bethesda,
MD
2. Eduardo Kac on Transgenic Animals as Art, Jan 29, UC Berkeley
3. UC Berkeley Classes on Biotechnology and Bioethics
4. Public Event Features Bill Joy, February 14, San Francisco
5. American Association for Advancement of Science, February 15-20,
San Francisco
GENETIC CROSSROADS #15 February 21, 2001
I. EDITORS' NOTE
II. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. "Globalization and Technology" Conference, NYC, Feb
24-25
2. "Race, Biotech and Eugenics in the New Global Millennium,"
NYC, Feb 25
3. UC Berkeley Events Address Human Genetic Manipulation,
Mar 12 & 14
III. COMMENTS
1. American-Italian Team Says It Will Begin Cloning Effort
2. Biotech Industry Position on Human Cloning
3. David King on the Genome Announcement
IV. POINTERS: SAMPLING OF ARTICLES ON HUMAN CLONING AND TECHNO-EUGENICS
GENETIC CROSSROADS #16 March 31, 2001
I. US CONGRESS TO CONSIDER BAN ON HUMAN CLONING
1. Hearing held March 28
2. What You Can Do: Briefing Packets Available
II. INTERNATIONAL COALITION FORMING TO OPPOSE HUMAN CLONING
AND
INHERITABLE GENETIC MODIFICATION
III. REPORT FROM THE ANTINORI / ZAVOS CLONING WORKSHOP IN ROME
IV. POINTERS AND QUOTES
1. Papers on Women and Human Genetic Manipulation Available
2. US Congressional Representatives on Cloning
3. Condemnations of Human Cloning from Around the Globe
BULLETIN MAY 9, 2001: Genetically Modified Children
A team of US scientists has set off a flurry of news stories
with
the claim that they and others have created "genetically
engineered
children."
GENETIC CROSSROADS #17 May 16, 2001
I. EDITORS' NOTE
II. HUMAN CLONING UPDATE
1. Report on Cloning Legislation in US Congress
2. UK Health Secretary Recommends Cloning Ban
3. Prominent Scientists Support Cloning Ban in Science
4. Debate on Embryo Cloning in Nature Medicine
III. OTHER NEWS AND POINTERS
1. Gerhard Shroder Rejects Human Genetic Manipulation
2. James Watson on the "Next Step for Science"
IV. EVENTS AND RESOURCES
1. Beyond Biodevastation 2001, San Diego, June 22-23
2. Extropy Institute Conference, San Jose, June 15-17
3. Redesigning Life: The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic
Engineering
4. Made not Born: The Troubling World of Biotechnology
GENETIC CROSSROADS #18 June 21, 2001
I. EDITORS' NOTE
II. TWO BILLS: A REAL CLONING BAN AND A BAN THAT ISN'T ONE
III. OTHER NEWS
1. Council for Responsible Genetics Rejects Embryo Manipulation
2. Demonstration Against Human Cloning at G8 Meeting
3. NGOs Oppose Human Cloning and Genetic Modification at World
Health Assembly
4. Canada Calls for Global Bans on Human Cloning, Germline
Modification
IV. UPCOMING EVENTS
1. Beyond Biodevastation / Biojustice, San Diego, June 22-27
2. Beyond Cloning Conference, Boston, September 21-22
V. RESOURCES
1. ** New Human Genetic Engineering Listserv **
2. Database of Global Policies on Human Cloning and Germline
Engineering Now on the Web
3. Greenpeace Website Lists Patent Applications for Human Embryos
4. "Why We Should Ban Human Cloning Now" by Leon Kass
5. "Altered Genes" Second Edition Available
BULLETIN #3 AUGUST 2, 2001: Clouded Victory on Human Cloning
After three hours of intense debate the U.S. House of Representatives
on Tuesday voted 265 to 162 to pass the "Weldon bill"
(HR 2505), banning
both the creation of clonal embryos and their implantation in
a woman
to produce a cloned child.
This vote is a victory for opponents of human cloning, designer
babies,
and the new commercial eugenics. But it's a victory that reveals
a
larger political failure--one with chilling implications.
GENETIC CROSSROADS #19 August 18, 2001
I. EDITORS' NOTE
II. NEWS
1. Women's Health, Reproductive Rights Leaders Call for Cloning
Ban
2. Cloning Advocates at the National Academy of Sciences
3. France and Germany Call for UN Debate on Human Cloning
III. EMBRYO CLONING AND STEM CELL RESEARCH
IV. EVENTS AND RESOURCES
1. Beyond Cloning Conference, Boston, September 21-22
2. New Human Genetic Engineering Listserv
GENETIC CROSSROADS #20 October 3, 2001
I. HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS LEADERS CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL
BAN ON
CLONING AND SPECIES-ALTERING PROCEDURES
II. OTHER NEWS
1. Human Cloning Advocate Pushes Fertility Clinics to OK
Sex
Selection
2. World Conference on Racism Addresses Human Genetic Engineering
3. Scientists Boycott Conference Organized by Cloning Advocate
4. Legislative Updates: Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia
III. UPCOMING CONFERENCE
1. Gene Watch 2001: Workshops with the Experts - November
3,
Harvard University
IV. "EXPLORATORY INITIATIVE" IS NOW THE "CENTER
FOR GENETICS AND
SOCIETY"