“The recordings show the company marketing its services at up to $50,000 (£38,000) for clients seeking to test 100 embryos, and claiming to have helped some parents select future children based on genetic predictions of intelligence.”
Heliospect Genomics pitches a gain of more than six IQ points from picking the “smartest” of 10 embryos. Its models run on UK Biobank, data from half a million British volunteers who were promised “public interest” research. IQ selection is illegal in the UK, so the company sells it from the US. British taxpayers funded the dataset and rich American clients get the eugenics.