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> it's the first time gene therapy didn't strike me as macabre Frankensteinian experiments on vulnerable people That's because it has barely begun to become vi
by jjoonathan 5y ago
> it's the first time gene therapy didn't strike me as macabre Frankensteinian experiments on vulnerable people
That's because it has barely begun to become viable IRL while science fiction writers have been using it as a convenient punching bag for decades -- without ever stopping to ask if they should.
- DoreenMichele 5y agoNo, that's because I have a form of cystic fibrosis and I know what I and others like me have been willing to do in the face of that and because I'm aware of real world experiments done on people who were seen as less than human for some reason, such as the Tuskegee syphilis experiments done on Black Americans and horrifying experiments done on people in concentration camps in Nazi Germany. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-medical-experiments https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/nazi-medic...