You aren't the first to find the term 'elite' to be objectionable. In the 19th Century the term Robber Barons was coined. Kleptocrats, profiteers, and banksters are all preferable, and more descriptive.

Take your pick =)

The cover image is, as you note, both telling and illusive. It is the stork image I find most disturbing, particularly given the recent story from China of the birth of gene-altered babies and the subsequent complete disappearance of the 'doctor', He, that claimed to have made them more resistant to AIDS using CRISPR technology.

The-odin.com will sell you a CRISPR kit for a couple hundred USD, and you can engineer your own glow in the dark frogs with it. Interesting times, indeed! The medical establishment may well seek to impose research and medical protocols on the scientific community, but this technology is completely decentralized, and every saint and mad scientist in the world will have this ability to genetically alter every living thing extant, craft novel creatures and chimerae, and even themselves.

Harvard has no ability to stuff that genie back in the bottle. No government, movement, nor mechanism of any kind of which I am aware does.

Thanks!