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Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild by coltonv on Friday December 15, 2017 @01:05AM (#15929940)
No genuine scientific conclusion confirms this. It's a hypothesis and one we have no way of testing, but people think it sounds awesome so they spread it without a good understating.
Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild by rdl on Friday December 15, 2017 @02:46AM (#15930291)
We definitely don’t know for sure, but we absolutely know the harm caused by malaria and dengue. (I personally care about this from living in places with both, and because Elon Musk almost died from dengue, apparently.)
Re:New Model Warns About Crispr Gene Drives in the Wild by macawfish on Friday December 15, 2017 @10:05AM (#15932290)
Everyone almost died of a lot of things. We're all lucky to be alive. For people in countries with Malaria, its like the flu. In fact, flu also kills a lot of people.

What's the solution to diseases? Improving peoples' general health and wellbeing, so that their immune systems can handle the disease. The solution is not to eradicate an entire species in the middle of an already distraught global ecological catastrophe.

For every instance of a mosquito causing a malarial infection, there are likely uncountable instances of mosquitoes causing inoculation.