Elliot Institute Information

We are a coalition of concerned citizens and organizations who believe it is time to slow the train of "progress toward a new humanity" before it is too late. We support local, national, and international efforts to erect preemptive bans on human engineering, with appropriate exceptions for cures involving gene therapies, stem cells, and similar procedures that treat disease without fundamentally changing human beings or the human genome. Our proposals will allow scientists, including transhumanists, to conduct ethical experiments with animals. Once they have proven the effectiveness of their "genetic fixes" or "superhuman enhancements," they are encouraged to educate the public and legislatures about why their proven techniques should be conducted on humans. But without this prior public approval, it would be against the law for them to create human life and tamper with human beings.