It's a lot less poetic if you consider that it wasn't "trust" that brought our placentas into being but a mutated retrovirus. More power to this guy if he help

It's a lot less poetic if you consider that it wasn't "trust" that brought our placentas into being but a mutated retrovirus. More power to this guy if he helps people feel better about themselves and the world but he should refrain from entering public debates about "genetic engineering and economics" while presenting himself as somebody enlightened, knowledgeable or even adequately informed. It is unfair to judge him solely from this article without having read his books but what can be gathered from it and a cursory search suggests that his interest in modern science consists exclusively of surfing the current zeitgeist without actually being interested in science, or even the philosophy of science. If he indeed is "at the forefront of European intellectual life" it would be a pretty sad testament to the dismal state of contemporary philosophy.