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Scientists Cautiously OK the Next Genetic Revolution


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Well I certainly hope so!

“I think they’re calling for gene drives to go forward in a slow, careful manner,” said Art Caplan, a professor of bioethics at New York University School of Medicine. “It would be hard to argue that that’s a bad idea.”  

Not everyone is slow and careful but they should be. 

Well, this seems horrible.  Even human low-tech breeding programs have been really questionable (e.g. see https://dogbehaviorscience.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/100-years-of-breed-improvement/) but why would that stop the arrogant from rewriting the genomes of entire species, and you know, seeing what happens?

Even the arrogant are weary of unintended consequences. 

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