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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Mengele vibes right there.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Well, the nazis did make a lot of scientific progress…

/s, just in case

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think gene theraly is a miracle technology that should absolutely be explored more. The thing is, we're already at a point where we can do it in adults. So doing it on embyros, which can't consent, is simply an uncessasary moral hazard.

That said, I think the doctor here sort of has a point, which is that medical research is sometimes so concerned with doing no harm that it allows harm to happen without trying to treat it.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Wasn't he the guy who was trying to find a way for HIV-positive couples to have HIV-negative babies?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

Antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women already is a safe and effective way to avoid HIV transmission to the baby. It's part of standard treatment guidelines https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1701216324003748

So the guy has genetically engineered babies as a potentially risky and certainlycontroversial solution for a problem that already has a safe and non-controversia solution.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Testing testing. Running an example instance. Please ignore this OP :>

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Better build a research base on Mars where legal and ethical limitations don't exist. And IDK, start researching teleportation or something.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I think he does it ironically tbh, his posts are all over the place, from making fun of Europe for regulating everything to then saying that gene editing should be regulated by international laws to then saying ethics are holding back humanity, then just saying he loves austin texas, then stating that he will not develop bio weapons lmao.

Stanford cup and CPC flag, he does have a sense of humour tbh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

my type of guy. And he still does his research to help people even with the public treating him like it does.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I know him!!! He featured heavily in that one Walter Isaacson biography, The Codebreaker. About Dr. Doudna of course.

Did he get his PHD? Well, good on him. I see China has a better anti-recidivism program than the USA has. Last I heard, he was doing hard time in Chinese prison for mad scientist stuff.

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