For a More Muscular Monk

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The standard human shape would become different, and anyone with money could look like a body builder. As H. Lee Sweeney, chairman of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, writes in a fascinating article in July's Scientific American, "The world may be about to watch one of its last Olympic Games without genetically enhanced athletes."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof for The NY Times

Therapeutic enhancement of the body and mind has been around for some years, getting especially big with the development of more drugs and of more power. Mr. Kristof discusses the more contemporary issue of genetic therapy, tying it into our Olympic games, along with his vain hopes for greater scientific literacy.

Monk can only sigh over what one can do with money, and how that power only grows. He sure wouldn't mind some myostatin blocker.

( Kristof article )

For a More Muscular Monk

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The standard human shape would become different, and anyone with money could look like a body builder. As H. Lee Sweeney, chairman of physiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, writes in a fascinating article in July's Scientific American, "The world may be about to watch one of its last Olympic Games without genetically enhanced athletes."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof for The NY Times

Therapeutic enhancement of the body and mind has been around for some years, getting especially big with the development of more drugs and of more power. Mr. Kristof discusses the more contemporary issue of genetic therapy, tying it into our Olympic games, along with his vain hopes for greater scientific literacy.

Monk can only sigh over what one can do with money, and how that power only grows. He sure wouldn't mind some myostatin blocker.

( Kristof article )