Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
Stephan: Here is the latest in the Homo Superior Trend. As you can see the reality of this trend is beginning to dawn on others, although they still think in the pharmaceutical model, as does this report does, but it details why I think this trend is inevitable — there is just too much profit to be made. And it offers Big Pharma a path out through the desolation of antibiotic medicine collapse.
However, I don't think that is the real play. Genetic engineering, coupled with mining large DNA databases, in a world in which everyone's DNA is collected -- will allow us to make chronic diseases ]disappear in the developed world within a century.
But there is a dark side.
Homo Superior may sound like science fiction but it very real trend, and occurring with surprising rapidity, and almost no ethical oversight. This trend concerns me a lot because I can see that the 1 per cent, because they will have the money, will adopt this very quickly, as who wouldn't, and new human species will emerge: Homo Superior. The two species road could result in a new form of slavery. Homo Sapiens will inevitably become a peasant species ruled by the smarter, handsomer, more physically gifted, healthier, and longer living Homo Superiors, who will also have most of the wealth and, thus, government control.
Credit: Bloomberg
Steven Pete can put his hand on a hot stove or step on a piece of glass and not feel a thing, all because of a quirk in his genes. Only a few dozen people in the world share Pete’s congenital insensitivity to pain. Drug companies see riches in his rare mutation. They also have their eye on people like Timothy Dreyer, 25, who has bones so dense he could walk away from accidents that would leave others with broken limbs. About 100 people have sclerosteosis, Dreyer’s condition.
Both men’s apparent superpowers come from exceedingly uncommon deviations in their DNA. They are genetic outliers, coveted by drug companies Amgen, Genentech, and others in search of drugs for some of the industry’s biggest, most lucrative markets.
Their genes also have caused the two men enormous suffering. Pete’s parents first realized something was wrong when, as a teething baby, their son almost chewed off his tongue. “That was a giant red flag,” says Pete, now 34 and living in Kelso, Wash. It took […]
WOW! What amazing discoveries. If only the government could own and control the prices in order to keep them down, this could help the entire species if profits were eliminated from the project. Socialized medicine would make a big difference toward helping everyone, instead of just a few 1%’s.