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The Thought Emporium is one of my favorite YouTubers, he makes videos about DIY genetic engineering and I have a huge amount of respect for his rigor and detail
by Dig1t 4y ago
The Thought Emporium is one of my favorite YouTubers, he makes videos about DIY genetic engineering and I have a huge amount of respect for his rigor and detail.
In one of his videos he talks about sourcing lab supplies and he listed The Odin as the one place you should "avoid at all costs".
"Not a single kit they sent me worked", was pretty damning.
He lists all the reasons he doesn't like using them including the fact that they have sent him totally wrong supplies, and overcharge for most of their stuff.
Source:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=F0_q-fD_lyU&feature=shares&t=1532s https://youtube.com/watch?v=F0_q-fD_lyU&feature=shares&t=153...
He lists better alternatives that are both cheaper and more reliable.
- tga_d 4y agoI have to just say, as interesting as the videos are, The Thought Emporium has some... I guess questionable ethics. They've been repeatedly critiqued for overuse of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in their experiments, and they dismiss it by saying antibiotic-resistant bacteria is already everywhere (yes it is, and the problem is going to get a lot worse if people promote using that as carte blanche to do whatever), and openly discuss how they skirt animal experimentation rules using technicalities like cooking the fish you harvested live brain matter from (you can argue whether the rules are too stringent, but treating ethics as some annoyance to hack around is blatantly missing the point). This doesn't detract from his shopping recommendations, but it does speak to the sort of concerns people have with the way the space operates generally. It's very "myopic engineer sees problem that needs fixing".
- Llamamoe 4y agoThis has come up again and again on a TTE-adjacent discord, most recently someone was sent gel stain contaminated with DNA.