Michael Le Page

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580 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5d ago

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The World, the Universe and Us · If We Can Make Genetically Engineered Designer Babies - Should We? · 15 Jun 2026 podcast

Uh I mean we we've got really our understanding of the genome is in its infancy.

You know, most genetic variants have got no clue what they do.

And the ones that we do know what they do or we think they do, that's based on these sort of statistical studies where you sort of look at a hundred thousand people and go, Oh, well, if they've got this genetic variant, they've got sort of a ten percent less chance of developing heart disease.

So it's not like a cause and effect at all.

These are st you know, this is

sort of you know, statistics that could be wrong.

Yeah.

I mean it doesn't have to be that way.

I I mean, you know, we could have, for example, we've got the national health system in the UK, if that decided to offer this as a service, then you could potentially avoid that inequality.

I I mean, yes, that could ha I think we're a long way from happening.

That's a long way from happening.

I mean the more immediate thing is, you know, are we gonna get people going or I want to sort of, you know, have more

intelligent children or smarter children or I want them to look like X.

I mean can I I mean personally a as a parent, you like, do you actually want to be have that degree of choice?

I mean, can you imagine your arguments that you go have a sort of like someone saying, you know, I've got

blonde hair and blue eyes, but I wanted to have brown hair and brown eyes like mummy and and you're gonna get these you know, do you do you really want to be in that world and have those sort of choices to make?

I I mean we've got enough tr hard choices to make as it is without going into the nitty gritty of what our children are like.

We're not there, we're not there at the point yet it's this is it's gonna come but hopefully not for probably sometime.

Probably sometime.

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