Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA

Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by hanniabu on Saturday December 22, 2018 @05:05PM (#18742725)

> Something like "everybody will get Alzheimers by age 50" where it takes 50 years to even discover it.

Yup, and my then the market is established and the companies creating the market will say it's impossible to know that the side effect was actually caused by altering your DNA, and go on knowingly selling services that are destroying lives all in the name of money

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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by aetherson on Saturday December 22, 2018 @06:38PM (#18743158)

So, look, don't do this.

This isn't about whether and to what degree "companies" are cartoonishly evil. And when you divert the conversation into that very well worn path, you distract from other problems.

There are lots of threads on HN where complaints about corporate ethics are on topic.

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Re:Deformities Alarm Scientists Racing to Rewrite Animal DNA by dcow on Saturday December 22, 2018 @08:01PM (#18743639)

This is absolutely on topic because it’s exactly how the problem proliferates. In isolation it can be corrected but as soon as we build and industry on it and it becomes part of the economy...well... It may be cartoonish with sugar and diabetes but not so much when our entire species is at stake.

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