Genetically "enhance" unwilling humans with the bite of ogm ticks...

[Altairsky]

I thought this was a joke, but it's been officially published....
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40693342/
https://www.catholicworldreport.com...making-you-sick-in-the-name-of-public-health/
Who else talked about enhancing human race a few decades ago? Just letting you know what some psychopath "scientists" are planning nowadays.

 

[Perris]

They are not scientists. They are ethicists/moralists/philosophers. The argument is entirely theoretical.

 

[Perris]

Their paper is here https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bioe.70015

 

[BlindLemonChicken]

Interesting read. I’m not surprised this is a topic being discussed in academia. I’ve known too many vegans I shouldn’t be surprised that someone is funding this sort of “research” even if it’s just by paying a professor a salary to sit in their climate-controlled office. Would be fun to see these types out in the wild debating someone on the opposite end of the philosophical spectrum. Is there a modern version of Ayn Rand?

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

I started reading through one of the articles and it sounds like a great story for a (fictional) villain (though I hope people are not legitly doing what the article is talking about). It kinda reminds me of reading about changing the DNA of oranges to stop orange greening disease (around that time Dr. He changed the DNA of unborn twins), but it also reminds me of that article I stumbled across while researching numbers as Covid was just hitting China of this person going over all these diseases and saying how they weren't killing people off fast enough and laughing about how we needed something better to kill off enough of the population (in population control, which the person's number of people who needed to go was the number I had researched). It also reminds me of GreenPeace dropping huge boulders in the middle of the ocean to stop bottom trawling by tearing the fishermen's nets (then getting a slap on the wrist for doing so).

I would hope none of this is truly happening, and if it is, that the people are stopped. They "might" have an idea for what the "greater good" for the world might be, but whether it is or not, you let people choose for themselves and not take it away from them just because  you think it's good.

 

[tripletfeb]

This could lead to a whole lotta "conspiracy theories" being talked about. Some true, others not so much. That being said, we are having steak for dinner tonight

 

[MysteryChicken]

I thought this was a joke, but it's been officially published....
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40693342/
https://www.catholicworldreport.com...making-you-sick-in-the-name-of-public-health/
Who else talked about enhancing human race a few decades ago? Just letting you know what some psychopath "scientists" are planning nowadays.

This should be considered a Bio-weapon. Heard about this alot on Facebook, over a couple months.

 

[janiedoe]

It really not a joke. ( Although, for our sanity, we need to keep our sense of humor even when puking our guts out.)
The only issue I take with the first article is the "permanent" part. I am one of the rare people who recovered (mostly) from Alpha Gal. Thankfully.

I was given free will at birth and I do not want someone else imposing their morals, or lack there of, on me. We are able to control certain aspects of our lives and our diet should be our own choice.​

 

[FrostRanger]

Even if I couldn't eat meat I would still have to buy meat products as I own several carnivorous animals and while I am fine with people choosing to eat meat or not for themselves, feeding a carnivorous animal as a herbivore is cruelty. If you can't/won't provide a species appropriate diet don't get that animal. There are plenty of herbivorous animals who would gladly be your friend in that case *pets the carnivorous animal currently in her lap*.


Aside from it just being morally wrong, it's poorly thought out as some people absolutely must eat red meat for health reasons such as for anemia, yes there are supplements and plant based sources but those don't always get absorbed very well by some people, also what happens if it bites and infects a carnivorous animal? That could cause said animal to die a slow painful death just because someone didn't like that other people eat meat and fewer carnivores will throw entire ecosystems out of whack. Even if it isn't intended to affect anything but humans initially genes can and do mutate