<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # People screaming ‘designer babies’ every time they... > People screaming ‘designer babies’ every time they hear CRISPR are revealing that they do not even understand the categories they are frightened of. Editing blood-forming cells in an adult with sickle-cell disease is not the same biological proposition as making a heritable alteration to an embryo. If you cannot distinguish somatic therapy from germline inheritance, you are not participating in a sophisticated bioethical discussion. You are panicking at vocabulary. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “People screaming ‘designer babies’ every time they hear CRISPR are revealing that they do not even understand the categories they are frightened of. Editing blood-forming cells in an adult with sickle-cell disease is not the same biological proposition as making a heritable alteration to an embryo. If you cannot distinguish somatic therapy from germline inheritance, you are not participating in a sophisticated bioethical discussion. You are panicking at vocabulary.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-people-screaming-designer-discussion-panicking-vocabulary ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->