Have we not learned?

Robert Pollack Ph.D., in the newest issue of the Edah Journal, presents an article entitled, The Price of Science Without Moral Constraints: German and American Medicine Before DNA and Today. He presents three different topics together. The first is a historical summary of eugenics leading to the Holocaust. He then presents a discussion of the residual effects of the eugenics thinking on modern America through the current discussions of the human genome project. He ends with a discussion of the effects of thinking of people as the composite of DNA instead of unique beings.

While it seems at times to lack true cohesion, Pollack's article does present important questions that we all need to consider in the next bunch of years. Do we want to allow the study of genetics, which can be positive, to corrupt our sense of morals and ethics again? What is the difference between thinking in terms of eugenics and thinking in terms of genetics and DNA when it comes to our morality?