From The Boston Globe: Scientists’ focus on biology and genetics research downplays the role of socioeconomic factors in causing distress and health problems.
“Science is threatening a new era of ‘market-based eugenics,’ whereby gene editing in combination with in vitro fertilization techniques will allow us to engineer our way to a society with fewer instances of diseases like schizophrenia. The implications are enormous and one of the most complex ethical questions is central mission of the science itself. But the movement toward psychiatric genetics is also dangerous in its subtler message: The idea that social problems are biology problems can channel more resources to wealthy scientists while diverting it from social services.”
