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> ... “it’s a fairly outrageous assumption that any change to this region would lead to some benefit,” Ryder says. “He made new mutations, and there’s no reason
by ganzuul 8y ago
> ... “it’s a fairly outrageous assumption that any change to this region would lead to some benefit,” Ryder says. “He made new mutations, and there’s no reason to think that they’d be protective—or even that they’d be safe.”
True.
> What’s shocking about this “is the blatant disregard of all the rules and conventions we have in place for how one should approach any proposed intervention,” said Leonid Kruglyak, a geneticist at the University of California at Los Angeles, on Twitter.
That's like saying no one can stab you because it is illegal.
It would seem that the systematic error lies squarely on academia and business ignoring each other for far too long.
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Clearly I have failed the communicate what I mean...
There are two different cultures both using the same tools. One believes it controls the tools and gets to set rules for how they are used. The other does not.
Juxtapose, the censorship board for TV in my country, which decided that calling Yugo surplus "genocide canteens" is bad, but reprehensible filth like Fear Factor and Big Brother is OK for prime time. Clearly, opinions do differ and are allowed to differ. - I call into question: Is the case of bioethics vs. business similar?
- simonh 8y ago>> What’s shocking about this “is the blatant disregard of all the rules and conventions we have in place for how one should approach any proposed intervention,” said Leonid Kruglyak, a geneticist at the University of California at Los Angeles, on Twitter. >That's like saying no one can stab you because it is illegal. It's like saying no one should stab you because it is illegal.
- ganzuul 8y agoClearly I have failed the communicate what I mean... There are two different cultures both using the same tools. One believes it controls the tools and gets to set rules for how they are used. The other does not. Juxtapose, the censorship board for TV in my country, which decided that calling Yugo surplus "genocide canteens" is bad, but reprehensible filth like Fear Factor and Big Brother is OK for prime time. Clearly, opinions do differ and are allowed to differ. - I call into question: Is the case of bioethics vs. business similar?
- simonh 8y agoThere does not seem to be two different cultures in this respect though. This guy is very well known in Western circles and consulted with US scientists on ethics questions. This guy's University in China has condemned what he did. In fact his actions are directly contrary to his own statements and presentations on the ethics of using this techniques on humans. See item 9 in the article. A paper by him on the ethics of this question, written some time ago and in a lengthy review process, was even published in The CRISPR Journal just 2 days after the story broke. His actions directly violate his stated principles in the journal.
- ganzuul 8y agoI stopped reading shortly after the bit about the contract. Thought it was an open and shut case with that... Hard to reconcile this into something acceptable or understandable.