Mrna cure for cancer
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Being behind in an arms race is not a position you want to find yourself in.
An arms race for giving yourself cancer?
An arms race for whatever unforeseen benefits can be derived from a technology that allows for altering a human's genetic information on the fly.
Let me go ahead and spoil it for you. There aren't any. Messenger RNA is broken at the conceptual level. It is the Ford Pinto of medicine.
It doesn't do what it claims to do, it just gives you cancer, makes men have heart problems and makes women sterile.
Sounds like 1000 times more harm than good. Humans are not software to be edited or commodities to be grown in a lab and sold. There are lines that shouldn't be crossed no matter how many people it would allegedly help. Much more loss than benefit and ends don't justify means anyway.
Yes but that's not going to stop China from tinkering because they have no moral compass and will create unspeakable horrors, so maybe we ought to have enough knowledge of the technology to develop countermeasures.
Christ, it's like I'm the only one in the room who can think more than one step ahead today.