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To summarize your blog, your biggest gripe is that it might not work, and that doing a test that may not work isn't worth the risk because "GMO bad". Jesus Chr
by mgraczyk 6y ago
To summarize your blog, your biggest gripe is that it might not work, and that doing a test that may not work isn't worth the risk because "GMO bad".
Jesus Christ, millions of people have malaria, it's a life-ruining disease. This is some of the worst luddite nonsense I've ever read.
- paul_f 6y agoI don't get the GMO-bad crowd. Before GMO crops, you would take seeds and irradiate them. Then plant them and see what interesting mutations happen. And somehow GMO is worse than that? SMH
- briefcomment 6y agoIn the Florida Keys?
- searine 6y agoMalaria used to be endemic all the way up to Maine. Improved sewage and later millions of gallons of pesticide fixed that. I don't think millions of gallons of toxic pesticides is the best solution. This is worth trying, and other similar experiments have shown it has been safe and effective.
- dang 6y agoYou broke the site guidelines badly here. Please follow the rules, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html