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>Some of it is garbage This is why it is controversial.
by searine 8y ago
>Some of it is garbage
This is why it is controversial.
- dekhn 8y agoI said some of it is garbage. Not all. Making claims in this area is fraught with incompetence and lying, so my warning is to skilled readers who need to be reminded of the value of skepticism.
- searine 8y agoI agree. I am taking issue with the articles title "CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations" From the current literature, there have been bad and good examples of this, but it is still a field in flux. We do not know conclusively what the effect is, how large, and how local. This makes blanket statements like "CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing causes lots of mutations" controversial.
- peterwwillis 8y agoYeah. It seems a bit like saying "use of cars causes lots of deaths". As we learn how to drive that should hopefully become less of a problem.