Posted on 01/22/2020 7:09:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
I was really hoping to have my very own Minotaur.
“Hit pause on gene editing: We have no idea...”
Hit pause, and we’ll find out from the Chinese.
good luck getting them to use the litter box
Well, you can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs !
I’m thinking our domestic enemies would prefer the protagonists of Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End: Large bipeds with cloven hooves, leathery wings, horns, and tails.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood%27s_End
>>We have no idea what our attempts to play god with the human genome will unleash on humanity.
Trying stuff just to see what happens is kind of the point of science.
The Chinese are atheist and do not care about ethics. Pause and do nothing is about the same as appeasement to the Germans and the National Socialist Party.
Hit pause, and we’ll find out from the Chinese.
Yep, "hitting pause" only works if everybody else is willing to hit pause. Unfortunately we don't live in that kind of world, there will always be somebody in the world willing to push the boundaries regardless of potential risk. And you risk getting caught with your pants down if you unilaterally cede a branch of research to others that might not have the best intentions.
“Hit pause on gene editing: We have no idea what our attempts to play god with the human genome will unleash on humanity.”
They said the same thing about gene splicing in the 70s which has been the greatest advance in biological research and development since Mendel.
Ethics can be decoupled from religion; however, the Chinese are atheists and don’t have ethics either.
We’ve finished our news
Homo Sapiens have outgrown their use
All the strangers came today
And it looks as though they’re here to stay
Wouldn’t it be nice to spine some intelligent genes into democrats?? Of course then they would not be democrats.
It is now possible to force traits.
In a generation we all could be red headed, 4 feet tall.4
That would be the end of the NBA.....
This is an announcement from Genetic Control: 'It is my sad duty to inform you, of a four-foot restriction on humanoid height'
“In a generation we all could be red headed, 4 feet tall.4”
Why would we force those traits instead of eliminating all genetic diseases and physical deformities?
The problem with gene editing is that scientists have almost no idea how the genes work, or the full ramifications of changing them.
There is a syndrome called 22Q11, which is a genetic deletion syndrome on the 22nd chromosome at location 22Q11.2. That small deletion can cause 200 different health defects. Every child with this deletion has a different set of health problems. 75% will have heart defects. 25% will become schizophrenic by age 20. 35% will have kidney defects. Scientists still haven’t figured out which DNA within this tiny deletion cause which problems.
Germline gene editing, artificial life, 3-parent embryos and cloning are not in conformity with the natural order of things, and so the Trump administration has not been derelict.
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