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woolly mice is bioweapon (mander.xyz)
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

I don't enjoy the idea of babies given circumcisions, I can't abide genetic tailoring by a person internationally decried as an unethical practitioner doing things in secret just to stoke his ego to make him the first, bypassing the incredibly necessary ethical safeguards that the industry enforces against themselves.

I don't want him to be able to do what he did in the way that he did it because the way that he did what he did allows for monstrosities to be committed in the name of advancing science at any cost with no thought to potential lifelong unknowable direct consequences in the people being treated.

I don't have an anti-genetic editing slant, I don't think the goal is bad.