Almost the equivalent of the SRS surgeons for virology.
"Look at all these people who are giving us all this money to try weird experimental shit on them, and will thank us for doing so."
And because of how society is. Any successes are shouted loudly and paraded about, no matter how few, and anyone who suspects they may have been conned is handwaved away.
That's the thing about lobotomies that people forget. There were enough success stories to point to to sell it to the mainstream. But when you can pick a handful from thousands...
This is clearly people fucking around with technology they have no idea how to use. Some with malicious intent, others because "ooo, shiny!"
Almost the equivalent of the SRS surgeons for virology.
"Look at all these people who are giving us all this money to try weird experimental shit on them, and will thank us for doing so."
And because of how society is. Any successes are shouted loudly and paraded about, no matter how few, and anyone who suspects they may have been conned is handwaved away.
That's the thing about lobotomies that people forget. There were enough success stories to point to to sell it to the mainstream. But when you can pick a handful from thousands...
Engineers always ask the question "Can we do this?" but never ask the question "Should we do this?"
Apply that same approach to human DNA, and you're in mad scientist territory.
Not to mention the entire field of computer science.