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Reminds me of the rabbis accusing Jewish people of marrying non-Jews as participating in a "Silent Holocaust". Way to drive people away, my dude. In some ways,
by KingMob 3y ago
Reminds me of the rabbis accusing Jewish people of marrying non-Jews as participating in a "Silent Holocaust". Way to drive people away, my dude.
In some ways, it's a moot point, since iiuc, most deaf children are born to hearing adults, and not within the Deaf community. Genetic treatments will almost certainly be preferred by those parents, and the Deaf community will slowly age up and die out in a few generations for lack of replenishment.
- kelnos 3y agoWell, a few generations after all types of congenital deafness are treatable. The gene therapy in the article so far only treats one, fairly uncommon, genetic cause.