Week 10, Gene Therapy

The ethics of gene therapy are very complicated. One the one hand, a lot of people seem to think that they can do a lot of good and help weed out "bad" or "unwanted" genes from the gene pool. Personally, I think it's a pretty ridiculous idea to start messing with genes on any level, even the genes of plants. We just have no idea of knowing what are the long term complications. Also, who are we to decide what we want or don't want in the gene pool. That seems like a really big decision to be made be a group of geneticists wanting to explore.