This stuff is so utterly at odds with everything Americans have been taught to do, think and say for fifty years now that it is too disruptive to even think about, let alone discuss. It is the cultural and political equivalent of an earthquake pushing California into the sea.

This is certainly true if we would expect consumers to drive this technology, in an American perspective.

Make the consumer an Indian or a Chinese, by contrast, and an in utero stem cell therapy (say) with the main effect of giving the child a better chance to succeed, and a side effect of having more attractive skin is something you can pick up customers for.

This research is ultimately driven by markets, not by ivory intellectual intellectuals, and so the ability of the Marxists to stop it is somewhat reduced.

This stuff is so utterly at odds with everything Americans have been taught to do, think and say for fifty years now that it is too disruptive to even think about, let alone discuss. It is the cultural and political equivalent of an earthquake pushing California into the sea.

People who deal with these facts professionally, such as for medical treatments, will discuss them quietly. Everyone else will ignore them, or not understand them, or scream loudly with their ears covered at anyone who mentions them.