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A project that has long been dreamed of and discussed
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Make People Better

A project that has long beendreamed of and discussed, worried over, but which in the last...

A project that has long been
dreamed of and discussed, worried over, but which in the last few years
has become realistic, has become plausible
and actually has taken place

Full Transcript

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A project that has long been dreamed of and discussed,
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worried over,
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but which in the last few years has become realistic,
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has become plausible and actually has taken place.
Duration
16 seconds
Views
55
Timestamp in Movie
00:04:33
Uploaded
Mar 27, 2025
Genres
documentary
Production
Diamond Docs

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Movie Summary

A Chinese biophysicist disappears after developing the first designer babies, shocking the world and the entire scientific community, but an investigation shows he may not have been alone in his experiment to create "better" human...
I'm Ben Hurlbut, I'm an associate professor - Make People Better 00:07
I'm Ben Hurlbut, I'm an associate professor
I study how science sits in relation - Make People Better 00:11
I study how science sits in relation
So the story that I'm gonna tell you - Make People Better 00:11
So the story that I'm gonna tell you
He wanted to be a kind of a defining project - Make People Better 00:07
He wanted to be a kind of a defining project
How we as a society respond to advances - Make People Better 00:09
How we as a society respond to advances
These are the first human beings born with genomes - Make People Better 00:09
These are the first human beings born with genomes
And the story that very quickly took shape - Make People Better 00:09
And the story that very quickly took shape
So when JK was taken into custody, - Make People Better 00:14
So when JK was taken into custody,
So he reached out to me - Make People Better 00:07
So he reached out to me
He wanted to tell somebody outside of China - Make People Better 00:05
He wanted to tell somebody outside of China
[phone ringing] - Make People Better 00:10
[phone ringing]
[JK] For the first kids ever in the human experiment, - Make People Better 00:11
[JK] For the first kids ever in the human experiment,
That's why I started on the monkeys and mice. - Make People Better 00:06
That's why I started on the monkeys and mice.
[indistinct] - Make People Better 00:12
[indistinct]
[Ben] Will you speak to the press - Make People Better 00:07
[Ben] Will you speak to the press
[indistinct] this person, everything's out of control. - Make People Better 00:08
[indistinct] this person, everything's out of control.
[city din] - Make People Better 00:06
[city din]
[BriaWhat this means - Make People Better 00:08
[BriaWhat this means
There's lots of science journalists out there, - Make People Better 00:07
There's lots of science journalists out there,
I tend to approach it more - Make People Better 00:20
I tend to approach it more