TLDR: A book was written by an old British man who is apparently scared of actually USING genetics.

I wonder if he contents with the potential cost in human lives that the pauses in research he wants would cause. Pause research for 5-7 years, those are 5-7 years of extra human suffering that could be avoided. At least from the article it seems he does not answer that question, and just sticks to trotting out the things that scare him.