Arthur Caplan
Arthur Caplan is Director of the Division of Medical Ethics at the NYU Langone Medical Center in New York City.
There are justifiable ethical concerns about new scientific tools that could be used to alter the genes of our descendants, but the genetic engineering of humans is inevitable. Public debate should fo… read more
The eradication of polio is a noble goal, but it is not the right one, for it is too costly - and, more importantly, it cannot be achieved. The best that can be done is to seek to control polio, and t… read more
