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Baby gene experiment 'foolish and dangerous'
- joelx 7y agoI think the dangers of gene editing are similar to another form of risk all of us take regularly - pharmaceutical drugs. We all take varying levels of drugs (from antibiotics to painkillers to caffeine to alcohol). I recently had an antibiotic regimen that wiped out my gut bacteria and now I can no longer eat the spicy food I love... who knows if there was other important gut cultures that affected the way I think or live? Even alcohol, humankind's oldest form of drug is very poorly understood. Many conflicting studies on alcohol show some benefits and some downsides.