First Genetically Modified Humans?

Modern medicine likes to pull off hoaxes, like the great cholesterol hoax that is still in play after four decades.  It likes to produce expensive cures on deliver them on its own terms.  Inexpensive remedies are shunned, go untested, are said to be unproven (but not disproven), and are peddled by hucksters.

Now that you have that straightened out in your mind, you will love/loathe to hear that humans are about to be genetically edited.  No, this is not an attempt to build a super-race of hum...