Alena Buyx: From the Ethics of Exclusion to the Ethics of Gene Editing
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73 instances of plagiarism in her dissertation, declared 2G exclusion ethically acceptable, pocketed the Federal Cross of Merit — and now she advises the WHO on genome editing.
Alena Buyx has had a remarkable career. In a functioning democracy, that career would have ended long ago. In Germany, you get the Federal Cross of Merit for it.