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Scientist who gene-edited babies is back in lab and ‘proud’ of past work despite jailing (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Medical ethics is way more involved than "one guy has good credentials, so let him at it."

Human experimentation is a fraught topic, one with a literal genocidal history. You don't let "the guy who is really good at this do whatever he wants" to people, because that's what all the murderers did too.

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