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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 60 points 5 hours ago (6 children)

Is nobody concerned that illegal experiments on babies only gets you 3 years?

Maybe they were Uyghurs so it was classified as "property damage" in Chinese law.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The devil is in the details....

You are likely thinking (as I am) that he implanted robotic arms on babies but he may have just rubbed sage oil on them for all we know

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 14 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (2 children)

He used CRISPR to make babies immune to HIV.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Thanks for the info

definitely on the evil side considering he probably planed to infect them to test his theories

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 6 points 51 minutes ago

Nope, he had no plans to infect them. The babies had parents who were HIV-positive.

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

Did not have baby zombie apocalypse on my Bingo card, but thera ya go

[–] nope@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

And in what context medical experiments should be allowed on babies ?

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 0 points 1 hour ago

Yet we still have default circumcisions in the US, no?

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 0 points 45 minutes ago

And China executed a shitload of people for political dissent...

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 35 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Be careful, you might get banned from lemmy dot ml for hatespeech against dictatorships.

[–] Probius@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why did you self censor by saying "dot"?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 8 points 3 hours ago

I wrote that on my phone's touch keyboard, and I didn't want to use \. to escape the dot character to avoid autohotlinking.

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair

Laws were changed after this incident:

In 2020, the National People's Congress of China passed Civil Code and an amendment to Criminal Law that prohibit human gene editing and cloning with no exceptions

So, in case you actually meant that weird ignorant remark you made about Uyghurs, the answer is no and no.

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago

Thanks for the information -- good to know. I assume that like American law, he couldn't be punished for something that wasn't illegal when he did it?

Regarding the Uyghur comment the other guy made, definitely a bit tasteless but I don't think it's that ignorant given the genocide China perpetrated against them.

[–] alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 hours ago

Lemmitors downvoting you because actually learning about the case conflicts with their "cHiNa BaD" circlejerk.