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Fueling the Fears of Science

机译：加剧对科学的恐惧

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In so many ways, it is hard to remember what life was like before the carnage of Sept. 11. What it felt like to be safe from unknown horrors. What seemed so important and now does not. What was top of the national policy agenda and now is not. All through last spring into the summer it was stem cells, but the events of that terrible day in September sent the whole subject into more or less oblivion, only for it to reappear more recently in the even more contentious discussion of therapeutic cloning. Fears of science―focusing specifically on the consequences of genetic manipulation―are being stoked on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, worries tend to center on the human applications of biotechnology, most notably cloning and a future in which genetic engineering of the human germ line will be possible. These largely neoconservative critics―including their intellectual big gun, Francis Fukuyama―see cloning as the thin end of the wedge. In their doleful view, therapeutic cloning will lead to reproductive cloning, which will lead to germ line interventions and, in Fukuyama's particular nightmare vision, a class of genetic aristocrats lording it over a genetic underclass, who may well turn violent unless the government offers them a eugenic way out of their sorry lot in life. For anyone who knows about science, this vision is preposterous. For the rest, it is very, very scary.
机译：从许多方面来看，很难记住9月11日屠杀之前的生活是什么样的。看起来如此重要，而现在却不重要。什么是国家政策议程的首要任务，现在不是。从去年春天一直到夏天一直是干细胞，但9月那一天的糟糕事件使整个受试者或多或少地被遗忘了，只是因为它在治疗性克隆的更具争议的讨论中重新出现。人们对科学的恐惧（特别关注基因操纵的后果）在大西洋两岸都引起了人们的关注。在美国，人们的担忧往往集中在生物技术对人类的应用上，最主要的是克隆以及人类生殖系基因工程的未来。这些主要是新保守派的批评家-包括知识分子大手弗朗西斯·福山（Francis Fukuyama），将克隆视为楔子的薄弱环节。在他们的悲观观点中，治疗性克隆将导致生殖性克隆，这将导致种系干预，并且在福山的噩梦中，一类遗传贵族将其笼罩在遗传阶层之下，除非政府提供，否则他们很可能会暴力化。摆脱他们遗憾的人生的一种优生方法。对于任何了解科学的人来说，这种愿景都是荒谬的。对于其余的，这是非常非常可怕的。

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