Skeptics question 'breast cancer-free' baby claim

What Hitler tried doing over 50 years ago seems to have actually come to pass. However, I don't remember his guarantee of a "disease-free" race, only a "perfect" one. Does anyone besides me see any correlation between these events? Am I the only one who hopes that such "screenings" do NOT become a medically "acceptable" part of reproduction?

Actually such screening is always happening naturally – we select our sexual partner and the best swimmer makes it to the egg. If the scientific screening more efficient - we will see.

People will do what ever they can at times to try to give their child a good start. At least they care enough to go to this extent.

I see too many selfish people bringing kids into this world that have no chance except to be defective - that is what is sad especially with the testing and counseling we have available today.

Abraham Lincoln was born with Marfan's Syndrome. Jackie Joyner-Kersee suffers from asthma. Vincent van Gogh lived with epilepsy. Albert Einstein suffered from dyslexia. John F. Kennedy suffered from Addison's Disease. These people saw the world in a unique way. Everyone wants to eradicate these illnesses, but what price will we pay?

Each of these people has left a lasting contribution to society. What would history be like without them? Who are we to decide who lives and dies based solely on their genetics? Hitler would be proud.

Ethically disgusting. But, I guess since it was done in a bastion of social liberalism, it will not be condemned. Change the location to Nazi Germany, and you have crimes against humanity.

What happened to the other embryos?

Two points to ponder here
1) On Gene selection: how the "science" knows what is right for the long term of humanity. Nature has tremendeous knowledge that Science does not have and what may look great in the short term, may end up to be a catastrophic situation over generations.
2) On Cancer Prevention: Cancer is mainly an environmental/behavioral issue and no gene selection will change that and avoid to get it. Only in assuring an healthy environment and providing what the body was designed to florish and strive on that Cancer is avoided or reversed/cured.

The eternal problem with "Science" is that it usually dimisses the fundamentals of nature and each "amazing" scientific achievement ends-up to have its own problems, often much more dramatic that what was "resolved" in the first place. I am not dismissing all scientific achievements but especially in the food and health sectors, "Science" has been a disaster. By the time we are stopping the current madness, it may be way too late to salvage the human race.

interesting, but there are no guarantees in life. A mother CAN reduce her risk of breast cancer by nursing her babies...also if that baby is a girl, she is less likley to get breast cancer herself.