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The genuinely frightening possibility is diseases engineered to infect/kill only people of a certain race or family.
by BurningFrog 5y ago
The genuinely frightening possibility is diseases engineered to infect/kill only people of a certain race or family.
- kickout 5y agoYes, genome engineering is a tool that can be used for evil, no different than most other tools. I am confident your worry would be easily detected and squashed if some lab were attempting such a dreadful thing.
- toomuchtodo 5y agoThis has been a known vulnerability for some time. https://youtu.be/HKQDSgBHPfY https://youtu.be/HKQDSgBHPfY https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349202 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16349202