This isn't really it. It's not like this sort of thing would have been OK if editing was 10 or 100 times less likely to cause off target effects. The way the w

This isn't really it. It's not like this sort of thing would have been OK if editing was 10 or 100 times less likely to cause off target effects. The way the whole thing happened was stupid. It was the wrong population of patients (healthy children), who had other options for avoiding HIV infection (antiretroviral suppression in parents, surrogacy, etc etc). And the fool decided this was the right population in which to employ highly experimental and underdeveloped gene technology? Any scientist with a modicum of integrity or common sense would never have done this. It's just bad science.