Inventor of IVF scores Nobel

Check out today’s NY Times article on Robert G. Edwards, the British scientist who, along with colleague Patrick Steptoe , successfully created human embryos outside the body.

Go Robert Edwards! Is it just me, or is this the most endearingly disheveled old doctor you’ve ever laid your eyes on? If Dr. Stein looked like this I would be knitting him wool socks and baking him muffins every morning.

Brownie points for anyone who adds supportive comments to the article. There are too many commenters bloviating about overpopulation without mentioning unequal resource distribution or wealth inequality.  How about hiking taxes on the rich to fund reproductive services for everyone?

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