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If you genetically modify animals to have a stronger immune system there's going to be a natural pressure for stronger bacteria. Just like giving animals antib
by superpermutat0r 8y ago
If you genetically modify animals to have a stronger immune system there's going to be a natural pressure for stronger bacteria.
Just like giving animals antibiotics to spur their growth is riskier than not.
- nradov 8y agoAnimals have been genetically modifying themselves to have stronger immune systems for millions of years. Are you proposing to halt evolution through natural selection?
- superpermutat0r 8y agoI am not. I am saying that evolution is time tested on a huge scale, GMO can never be. By using GMOs one is definitely going to get black swans.
- tomp 8y agoI don't understand how people don't get that... Like, half of the concern about global warming/climate change isn't warming per se - it might be a good thing if we'd be able to grow food in Siberia - but change - the unforeseen, unpredictable consequences of throwing a complex chaotic system out of a balance it's maintained for millions of years. Now exactly the same applies to GMOs, but all of a sudden the "scientific community" reaches the opposite consensus.
- nradov 8y agoOther techniques can produce genetic changes just as large as direct genetic modification. For example, irradiation, interspecies hybridization, and selective breeding. So your "black swan" argument is invalid.
- tomp 8y agoWhich of those techniques can implant virus/bacterial gene into plant DNA? It’s like saying “nuclear bomb could happen randomly in the universe” like yeah, it could (and there are actually examples of natural reactors), but what are the odds, versus human engineering?!