This is a long post that is very much worth reading. "In summer 2025, a startup technology company from Silicon Valley announced the launch of a genetic IQ test for embryos," reports Ben Williamson. "Now we could just respond to this by saying it's modern eugenics and snake oil, as other critics have." But we shouldn't. For one thing, despite the questionable ethics, what we've seen is people would if they could. So it could become a thing. And as Williamson makes the case, the necessary infrastructure is already being set up, and it doesn't really matter whether it's a 'real' science or not. "Educational genomics needs to be understood as an inventive science," he writes. It doesn't just unveil what's there, it fabricates or invents "new genomic facts about learning."
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