China’s He Jiankui, who used Crispr to edit genome, says he is working on genetic diseases and suggests human embryo gene editing will one day be accepted
This is terrifying. Obviously he’s a smart guy, but he’s incapable of seeing how unethical and risky this is.
Just because they were born and seem normal and healthy now that doesn’t mean the gene therapy was successful. The kids may be lucky or just not showing symptoms of anything they are tracking.
He basically jumped out into traffic, didn’t get hit by a car and said that made it okay.
I saw this before and I do wonder if by the time I’m an old bastard if this is the guy who proved that it can be done safely or just another monster who thought ethics didnt apply to him.
This is terrifying. Obviously he’s a smart guy, but he’s incapable of seeing how unethical and risky this is.
Just because they were born and seem normal and healthy now that doesn’t mean the gene therapy was successful. The kids may be lucky or just not showing symptoms of anything they are tracking.
He basically jumped out into traffic, didn’t get hit by a car and said that made it okay.
I saw this before and I do wonder if by the time I’m an old bastard if this is the guy who proved that it can be done safely or just another monster who thought ethics didnt apply to him.