August
28
  6:11:29 PM

Hollywood’s warning on designer babies

 

Here’s another new film about the perils of genetic engineering. Information about Jim is sketchy at this point – it will be released in October – but it has something to do with corporate control of science. The protagonist takes frozen eggs to Lorigen to have them genetically engineered. The commercial for the company is a tour de force of creepy commercialism.



 

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