Food for thought, anyway, and undeserving of dismissal as bullshit.
Misunderstanding. I do not dismiss the issues involved. I dismiss as bullshit the media's fear mongering of the issue.
I agree with some of what you say. This designer DNA stuff can get well out of hand. As the article addresses, personal choice in designer genomes for our babies could well lead to a plethora of the tall, handsome, blue-eyed, muscle-man brainiacs of the Aryan ideal. And you just know that some rock star or movie star is going to have a baby with purple hair, zebra skin and a bony spike sticking through its little baby head.
What do we do to control this? What I see in the article is the fear mongered suggestion that we kill the research in total.
I don't know how the future society can/will control the all-too-human penchant to give every advantage to our babies. But the promise of further research in arresting disease, correcting genome malfunction, improving health, longevity, intellect, happiness, whatever good things we can do to make life warm and fuzzy for all time, seems, imho, well worth walking the minefield ... on my belly ... with a detector ... and a map.
If we stop now we only delay the good stuff. We can still progress while we ponder the limits we want to enforce, by whom, when and how. Some of these consequences we will need to experience before we even know they are there. Scary and dangerous, yes, but until we progress further we will not know what we can and cannot, should and should not do.
Ethics conferences, philosophical essays, a consensus gentium (minus the Republicans and the Vatican) will need to guide us.