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Re:Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy by reacweb on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:00AM (#15757201)
Yes, it is very dangerous. How many people are doing dangerous and stupid things like smoking, drinking or eating too much, climbing cliffs, ... At least there is a small chance he gets some benefit.
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Re:Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy by bognition on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:45AM (#15757641)
Sure but the real risk here is normalizing self administered gene-therapy. When people read about it in the BBC they will naively assume its safer than it actually is. This opens the market to layperson when in reality we should be guarding against this stuff until its further along.
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Re:Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy by cjsuk on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:33AM (#15757518)
Maybe. maybe also death: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4807042.stm

Outcome: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-22556736

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Re:Why I injected myself with an untested gene therapy by vorotato on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @10:39AM (#15757586)
I'm sure he's not ignorant to the fact that gene therapy could kill him.
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