Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
by RockRobotRock on Thursday May 09, 2024 @08:05PM
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I was blown away when I first saw the video, but he's completely reckless.
This Reddit thread has some interesting insight into just how dangerous it could have been: https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/7x8x3q/dude_uses_ho...
Re:Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
by kelnos on Friday May 10, 2024 @01:53AM
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Yep, and there it is -- I'd have no idea watching that video the risk mentioned by the top commenter there about the possibility of getting cancer for doing something like that.
This is why I'm leaning toward a "no" here... I probably shouldn't be legally allowed to pay someone else to make me something like this, regardless of what sort of informed consent form I sign.
But should I be able to do that? Am I capable of evaluating the risks? Am I capable of even enumerating the various risk factors? This is not my field at all. Maybe the person making this for me is doing it in an unsafe manner, in a way that could result in dangerous contamination. How would I know?