First of all it wasn't necessary. Vertical transmission of HIV can be dealt with in other ways. Why expose these kids to pointless risk? No medical researcher w

First of all it wasn't necessary. Vertical transmission of HIV can be dealt with in other ways. Why expose these kids to pointless risk? No medical researcher with an ounce of integrity or care would do something like this. Secondly, it was fraud, the guy falsified documents and misrepresented things. Thirdly, the whole concept was dumb. It doesn't make any damn sense. He wanted to edit babies for his own reasons (some mix of insanity and ego I presume), so he found a way to do it. That xkcd is one of the worst ones I've seen, by the way, it also doesn't make any damn sense.