This is so weird, I somehow feel like I'm going out on a limb in registering my support for one of the vanguard of human biological and genetic advancement.
JCVI: Home
Possibly because the internet is dominated by America and Greens and Islam, but it seems like Venter is completely persona non grata these days in the world, and it makes me feel ill when proper modern explorers of science are cast as evil magicians who seek to devalue the word of some fucking God or other.
The JCV institute are basically trying to create life from the bottom up. Find the little bits and the combinations of little bits which work together and the results of suchlike, and so forth.
There are narrowminded people who equate this type of research with eugenics and so on, but it's pure science and nobody says we have to ultimately create 'perfect' people with it. But surely it is good to know...
Charlatans and frauds are running scared, and there is trouble on the horizon for this guy when he herds all the huxters into a corral and they turn on him, which is already happening.
I think that is a terrible shame.