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Science: Vaccines Work, GMOs Are Safe, Everything is a Chemical

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joecct said:
They voted "D". Ergo, they must be brilliant.
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Your snark is noted, but not everyone in Brooklyn votes D, sparky. Even where the vast majority do, voting D is not necessarily a mark of intelligence. For instance, there are plenty of airheaded libs living in California, as evidenced by the "Calexit" movement having ~33% support. Oh, and then there's this moron.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Oh goody. Maybe when affluent Millennial "furbabies" :rolleyes: start dying of distemper and spreading rabies to human children, THEN people will get the message.
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I think it's funny that we're now concerned with "natural" dogs after years of genetically modifying them to look like cute little freaks.
 
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This seems important.

In a paper published in the prestigious journal Nature, a team led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon Health and Science University described how it used CRISPR/Cas9 to correct a genetic mutation that’s linked to a heart disorder called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in human embryos.
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dxmnkd316 said:
Years absolutely. Labradoodle, teacup anything, any of those designer dogs.
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Sorry, I just meant that we've been designing dogs for a very long time now, and could likely go back many millennia to when we first started breeding for traits. What we're doing now is nothing new except in the varieties and qualities we wish to see from these animals.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Gut their funding. It is the Lord's Will that some children are born with such defects, so be it. We don't need any of that fancypants, librul "science" stuff trying to play God.
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That's how the Russian Orthodox felt about sulfa drugs.
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Gut their funding. It is the Lord's Will that some children are born with such defects, so be it. We don't need any of that fancypants, librul "science" stuff trying to play God.
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On the medical side, my wife had 2 cousins die of CF. I hope we can eradicate this and other genetic diseases.

The temptation to play God will be strong. Can you design a super athlete? A person with a superior intellect?

Remember Star Trek's "Space Seed"?

I'd proceed with great caution on this, knowing that in some rogue lab somewhere Kahn Noonien Singh is under construction while in another the end of CF is at hand.
 
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joecct said:
On the medical side, my wife had 2 cousins die of CF. I hope we can eradicate this and other genetic diseases.

The temptation to play God will be strong. Can you design a super athlete? A person with a superior intellect?

Remember Star Trek's "Space Seed"?

I'd proceed with great caution on this, knowing that in some rogue lab somewhere Kahn Noonien Singh is under construction while in another the end of CF is at hand.
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They f-cked up because they bred him with extra aggression. If he'd just been smarter, prettier, and stronger they'd have created a race of Hedy Lamarrs.
 
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joecct said:
On the medical side, my wife had 2 cousins die of CF. I hope we can eradicate this and other genetic diseases.

The temptation to play God will be strong. Can you design a super athlete? A person with a superior intellect?

Remember Star Trek's "Space Seed"?

I'd proceed with great caution on this, knowing that in some rogue lab somewhere Kahn Noonien Singh is under construction while in another the end of CF is at hand.
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"Designer babies" won't be a thing in any of our lifetimes, so I'm not going to sweat it.

Not a Trekkie, so I have no idea what you're talking about. :)
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
"Designer babies" won't be a thing in any of our lifetimes
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Don't be so sure. Let's assume there's some poor schmuck here who is 25 and hasn't figured out the Cafe is a rest home for octogenarians yet. Said sucker will be on this ball at least until 2075.

Genetics in 1875.

1975.

2015.

Genetic research and technology isn't just accelerating. The rate of acceleration is accelerating.
 
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