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"That circle included leading scientists—among them a Nobel laureate—in China and the United States, business executives, an entrepreneur connected to venture c
by neom 7y ago
"That circle included leading scientists—among them a Nobel laureate—in China and the United States, business executives, an entrepreneur connected to venture capitalists, authors of the NASEM report, a controversial U.S. IVF specialist who discussed opening a gene-editing clinic with He, and at least one Chinese politician. "He had an awful lot of company to be called a ‘rogue,’" says geneticist George Church, a CRISPR pioneer at Harvard University who was not in the circle of trust and is one of the few scientists to defend at least some aspects of He's experiment."
"an entrepreneur connected to venture capitalists" made me chuckle.
- casefields 7y agoHoly cow. Jeffrey Epstein funded George Church, which is also on the front page right now: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-science-donations-apologies-statements https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-ep... These tentacles are all over the place.
- akhilcacharya 7y agoEpstein himself also was interested in eugenics for this purpose. It's incredibly chilling.
- vibrio 7y ago"He had an awful lot of company to be called a ‘rogue,’" says geneticist George Church Was Church referring to He or Epstein as a rogue? /s