Re:The untold story of ‘circle of trust’ behind world’s firs...
by jostmey on Sunday January 31, 2021 @08:48PM
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Research with human participants is being over-sighted to the point that real research is virtually impossible. I say this, having seen the IRB approval process for human subject research. Research institutes just don't want to take on the risk
The problem with this tech isn't just the Übermensch (or should I say, ÜberTiāncháo) that we will have to deal with, but more subtle. For instance, a percentage of northern europeans are already partially genetically immune to HIV/AIDS [1]
People with sickle cell anaemia are already somewhat immune to Malaria [2]. Some gibbering genius in a laboratory might decide to cure the human race of Anaemia and inadvertently cause millions of people to start dying of malaria or dengue.
There are plenty of "problem" genes that we carry in our genome that scientists will want to "fix", and then we will discover the hard way why those genes are there in the first place. This absolutely needs to be controlled. The coming man will not be an Übermensch, but a CRISPR-castrato
[1] https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/viruses101/hiv_resistan... [2] https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/index.html (select 'sickle cell')