Plutodog wrote:
Whole subject just pizzes me off somehow or other. Natural used to be so simple.

What I do not like is the occasional hint of eugenics in discussions about the possibilities of these new techniques. The genius sperm bank(s) bother me. The fact that a blatant racist, William Bradford Shockley Jr.,* was the first and repeated donor to one of the earliest genius sperm banks bothers me. Almost
every technology has the capacity to be used for a bad, if not evil, purpose. This one has more than the usual level of danger about it, IMHO.
Very much like the internet has produced a violent effluvia that sadly can't be contained.