You've asked me to give an official comment on requests for funding for research to re-introduce engineering of the human germline. I apologize for the delay in my response — the cystic fibrosis flared up again this week and the pulmonary treatments have put me behind in my work. I have misgivings, Talbot. Not long ago, I was digging through the United States historical archive and some of the surviving political documents from that era, and I came across this exchange. I found it instructive, and perhaps you will, too. It is a transcript from a Senate budgetary committee meeting, dated 18 August 2238. Present are Alan Gillman, a Senator from Colorado, and the Chief Geneticist of the Human Genome Reclamation Project, Timothy Hopkins.
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