re: LIFESCIENCE: twins

[Lubica=Lacinova <Lubica=Lacinova@IPT>]

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ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 99
LIFESCIENCE
Linz, Austria, September 04 - 09
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On Monday, August 2, 1999 at 9:12:47 pm MEZ,
Peter Gena <pgena@artic.edu> wrote:

>Isn't it our responsibility as artists to dismiss sensationalist news
>stories?  Or, do we naively disseminate them?  

I confess I never come to the idea that this could be responsibility of an
artist. Does it apply just to sensationalist stories about life science, or
does it cover all natural sciences - like that planned Big Bang experiment at
Brookhaven which could allegedly create a black hole - should artists go on
and calm concerned public? Or will artist dismiss all stories about George
Bush meeting aliens, sensationalist reporting about street crime and racism 
of
NYPD?

How do you want to do it, anyway, if you claim to have
">little knowledge of the actual science combined with the ego of an artist"
?

>-Michael Jordan is of normal parentage.  Mating him with a WNBA star will
>hardly guarantee that his progeny will produce a potential superstar.

The point is, that center for assisted reproduction with good advertisement
strategy can relatively easily win customers who will "buy" optimized babies
based on PIG (pre-implantation diagnostics) by IVF (in vitro fertilization).
It will take something like 20 years to see that their promises did not come
true. That 20 years are more than enough for stabilizing market a for people
getting completely unused to uncontrolled "wild-type" reproduction. BTW, 
sperm
banks into which Nobel laureates and university professors sell their sperms
are being created in the USA. Your friend can tell us that to shop there is a
nonsense and he will be right. Still, will it somehow decrease their
commercial success? 

>Oh, and I'm an atheist so I claim no moral or religious reasoning for my
> thoughts.

I think I do not quite understand: does being an atheist implies 
impossibility
of moral reasoning?

Luba Lacinova
e-dress  lacinova@ipt.med.tu-muenchen.de
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