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    We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for awhile, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
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    from the “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” file

    Few would have imagined it might one day be possible to create human sperm in a laboratory, but that is now the proud claim of Professor Karim Nayernia of the North East England Stem Cell Institute.

    Reactions two years ago, when the same team not only grew mouse sperm from embryonic cells but used it to produce baby mice, were somewhat warmer, which perhaps [...]