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Let the poor have designer babies on the NHS

It will reverse the rise of the cognitive elite

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

12 September 2015

9:00 AM

I’ve just written an essay for Quadrant, an Australian periodical, in which I propose a controversial solution to the problem of entrenched inequality: free designer babies for the poor. Yes, yes, I know. It sounds like a 21st-century version of Swift’s ‘Modest Proposal’ and, at first, I rejected it as being too far-fetched.

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