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[–] Schmuppes@lemmy.today 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Mengele vibes right there.

[–] unused_user_name@lemm.ee 3 points 30 minutes ago (1 children)

Well, the nazis did make a lot of scientific progress…

/s, just in case

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 0 points 21 minutes ago

The nazis were ethical compared to what was happening at Unit 731...

[–] DrownedRats@lemmy.world 10 points 3 hours ago

"Speed limits are holding me back from getting from a to B in as little time as possible" yeah, and they reduce the likelihood of injuring/killing a people in the process.

[–] SplashJackson@lemmy.ca 8 points 4 hours ago

Wasn't he the guy who was trying to find a way for HIV-positive couples to have HIV-negative babies?

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 114 points 8 hours ago (5 children)

Ethics are supposed to throttle human activity. That's their fucking job. That guy is a goddamn sociopath.

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 hours ago

I honestly think that is the most important point to make. It is a fundamental truth and force the person to talk specifics. Why is it bad there?

[–] LeninsOvaries@lemmy.cafe 13 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

I thought this guy was the one doing the human throttling

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[–] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 69 points 9 hours ago (21 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 14 points 5 hours 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 13 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (7 children)

He used CRISPR to make babies immune to HIV.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

No, he inserted a gene that is associated with resistance to HIV, but is also associated with increased risk of some cancers. He did this without informed consent, he did this without running it by an ethics board, he did this without knowing whether it would work or not.

Let’s stop pretending that he’s a good guy that just magically made HIV immune babies.

Edit: it also didn’t work. The babies have genes both with and without the mutation.

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[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Depends how successful the experiment is (and probably on what the goal is as well).

If he'd been testing the effects of grass vs grain feed on human fat marbling, I'd imagine the sentence would have been a little more severe

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 36 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

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

[–] Aux@feddit.uk 1 points 41 minutes ago

Who cares about a tankie instance?

[–] Objection@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago

It's literal misinformation, so it probably should be removed, yes.

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