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>"If America doesn't do it, China will, and in a generation will be swollen with a population so much more fit as to make the question of the US standing toe-to
by nonbel 9y ago
>"If America doesn't do it, China will, and in a generation will be swollen with a population so much more fit as to make the question of the US standing toe-to-toe laughable. If China doesn't, Russia will."
Any country that does widespread "gene editing" anytime soon will either:
1) See no difference at all, since it doesn't actually do anything more than selecting for sperm/eggs.
2) Have an insane onslaught of health problems that appear in 10+ years due to unforeseen consequences.
Our understanding of the human body is so rudimentary that your claim really is laughable.
- MagnumOpus 9y agoOr 3) have a massively reduced healthcare bill and a healthier happier population thanks to the elimination of heritable ailments like Huntingtons, sickle cell anemia, hemophilia or most kinds of diabetes. Like you say, your understanding of the human body as a software developer is rudimentary. Luckily there are a vast number of people whose understanding of the body is less limited than yours.
- nonbel 9y agoThere are only people who think they understand the body because they don't know what a p-value means. As indicated by the replication crisis, where over 50% of results are not even repeatable, the majority of this info is incorrect. And that is the tip of the iceberg because even if an experiment/observation is consistent that does not mean you interpreted the results correctly. Actually, I bet there are very few people who actually have a better understanding of the human body than me, just because I have the appropriate skepticism.