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THE BEST HUMANS HAVEN’T BEEN PRODUCED YET A year before Jiankui He suddenly catapulted to international notoriety, I was on the outskirts of Shenzhen for an international conference at the China National GeneBank. Security guards stood at attention and gave me a smart salute as my taxi passed through the front gate and wound around a steep curved drive. A white building with huge glass windows rose up over a small forested hill in a series of terraces, overlooking a lake. Statues of woolly mammoths flanked the entrance to the building—an adult with huge imposing tusks and small ears, as well as a baby just behind. A flock of pink flamingos was corralled in a pool off to the left. A man in a yellow-and-black uniform waded through a koi pond, tending ornamental plants. Dr. He was not in attendance. He was on the other side of town, busy at work in his own laboratory. Scores of researchers who shared his basic ambitions, from throughout China and around the world, were milling about, snapping selfies next to scientific rock stars. Blue and pink lights played on the ceiling as we were ushered into an auditorium for the opening ceremony. Chairman Henry Yang assumed the stage as a dramatic orchestral overture played. He wore a dark business suit and a red tie, and his closely cropped black hair was white around the edges. His conservative dress contrasted with his colorful personality. Yang announced a bold vision: “Within ten years we aim to sequence the DNA of every important plant species, within twenty years we want to sequence every human on the planet, within thirty years we aim to sequence every form of life.” Yang paraded around the stage, giddy with enthusiasm, saying that he had a surprise in store for the audience. “My girls and boys always have new ideas,” he said. In the next breath he shouted: “George, come on!” A legendary molecular biologist from Harvard, George Church—a towering Cro-Magnon of a man—was summoned to the stage. Church has long aspired to bring woolly mammoths back from the dead. The project was on a back burner in the United States, with technical progress on other projects bringing Church incremental advances. Not so here. In flattering the Harvard biologist, Yang conveyed a strong message: China has the resources and the technical skills to make Church’s vision a reality.
Kirksey, Eben. The Mutant Project (pp. 38-39). St. Martin's Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.
“Model Citizens” “To the police and the press he’s a boring old nuisance with a file cabinet full of ghosts; kill him and you’re liable to turn him into a neglected hero with living enemies still to be caught.” Dr. Josef Mengele, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death,” speaking about the character modeled on Simon Wiesenthal in Ira Levin’s bestselling novel The Boys from Brazil Among the many myths that developed about Nazi hunters, none is more off the mark than the portrayal of Wiesenthal as an avenger who was eager to confront his prey directly, personally tracking fugitive Nazis down to the most remote hiding places in South America if necessary. As portrayed by Laurence Olivier in the 1978 film The Boys from Brazil, the Wiesenthal character caught up with Mengele (played by Gregory Peck) at a farm in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, leading to a life-and-death battle. When Olivier literally unleashed the dogs—the famed snarling Dobermans—to prevail, the popular image of Wiesenthal lost all touch with reality: from then on, he was seen as part-Columbo, part–James Bond. Wiesenthal bore some of the responsibility for those misconceptions. He had published his book Ich jagte Eichmann (I Hunted Eichmann) in 1961 when Mossad chief Isser Harel could not claim credit for the kidnapping or explain what leads had proved to be critical to its success. Despite Wiesenthal’s protestations that he was only one part of “a mosaic” of people who made small contributions to Eichmann’s capture, he was delighted to see his fame growing. That helped him recover from the closure of his Linz Documentation Center in 1954. On October 1, 1961, he launched his new Documentation Center in Vienna with the help of that city’s Jewish community. Wiesenthal was reenergized, and he would continue to demonstrate an uncanny knack for self-promotion that included cooperating on occasion with those who transformed the story of Nazis on the run and Nazi hunters into a staple of popular culture. Frederick Forsyth turned to him for help in providing background for The Odessa File, his 1972 bestselling novel, which was made into a hit movie two years later, telling him that he was inspired by a chapter in his 1967 memoir, The Murderers Among Us. Wiesenthal was happy to oblige. He even persuaded Forsyth to make his villain a real person: Eduard Roschmann, an Austrian who was the former commander of the Riga
Nagorski, Andrew. The Nazi Hunters . Simon & Schuster. Kindle Edition.
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