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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday April 03 2019, @07:56PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-color-do-you-want-her-eyes-to-be? dept.

ScienceNews:

David Baltimore: I fully agree — and the whole group of us involved in the summits agree — that we're not ready to be doing germline modification of humans, if we ever are. You might say, "Well, that's a moratorium," and, in a sense, it is. I don't have a big argument about that.

But the important point is to be flexible going forward. That's what's wrong with a moratorium. It's that the idea gets fixed in people's minds that we're making firm statements about what we don't want to do and for how long we don't want to do it.

With a science that's moving forward as rapidly as this science is, you want to be able to adapt to new discoveries, new opportunities and new understandings. To make rules is probably not a good idea.

What's a good idea is to be on top of a changing environment and to adjust to it as time goes by. And that's both an ethical environment and a practical environment of the mechanics of gene editing.

The Clone Wars, begun they have.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @08:12PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @08:12PM (#824218)

    I don't see why they don't also ban exposure of the zygote, etc to all mutagenic exposures. There is nothing special about crispy in this regard other than it has been hyped up by American universities and VCs to be useful. People will figure out the horrors of what these scammers told them to do soon enough.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @11:14PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @11:14PM (#824288)

    This won't do shit for all the Republicans already born, and DNA changes on fully formed mammals probably would not drastically alter the existing brain structure. Aside from that, banning humans has a terrible track record.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @11:49PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 03 2019, @11:49PM (#824299)

      My friend who voted for Trump was diagnosed as ringworm recently .i believe it could be advanced fungi. New parasite. Synthetic fibers from food microwave. What.