‘Xactly - “Just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”
Crispr gene editing breakthrough provides erector set child’s play experimentation / weaponization / extermination of any species, intentionally or unintentionally.
Will we have a twelve monkeys event ahead, ie: idiots / terrorists can splice a deadly easy-to-obtain virus (hantavirus from mice droppings or bird flu) to a very contagious (common cold) virus, for example.
*Easy DNA Editing Will Remake the World. Buckle Up. | WIRED
www.wired.com/2015/07/crispr-dna-editing-2/ Proxy
DNA is what genes are made of, and genes are the basis of heredity. ... Everyone at the Napa meeting had access to a gene-editing technique called Crispr-Cas9. ..... worked on the San Diego fly study, agrees that gene drives come with risks.
**Top U.S. Intelligence Official Calls Gene Editing a WMD Threat
https://www.technologyreview.com/s/600774/top-us-inte... Proxy
Feb 9, 2016 ... The intelligence community now sees CRISPR as a threat to national safety. ... Genome editing is a weapon of mass destruction. ... those of Western countries probably increases the risk of the creation of potentially harmful ...
So much for the theory that diseases don’t cross species.