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It's exposed by prospective subject parents that when asked what if the experiment went wrong, He's assistant simply said "Don't worry, we would help dispose of the baby."

The small private hospital that approved and held the experiment is one of the "Pu-tian clique", notorious in China for their customarily misleading, predatory and fraudulent medical pratices.

The hospital boss also invested in He's two bio startups, one of which is hawking a failed American 3rd-gen gene sequencing machine "Helicos" that he bought from his American professor, now goes by the name "GenoCare", billed as "the world's most accurate", monopoly-breaking, "fully originally and domestically invented" by him.

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This is sounding like the future that many science fiction authors warned us about. And that's not good at all.

What's more scary is the public opinion about this in China.

When first reported on by state media "the People's Daily", being touted as a glorious historical breakthrough, netizens cheered with overwhelming joy and pride.

Then came critical pieces, netizens appeared to calmed a bit, "Foreign masters displeased!", some started to worry about it, "What if the girls start to pollute the gene pool? It's horrifying." "It's outrageous and immoral, burn He and the girls to death!" "Sterilize them!" "This is an American conspiracy." "I'll be blunt here, the morons who oppose it, don't ever join the line when gene-optimizing treatments come out." "Human thought can't keep up with the advance of technology, it'd be a disaster." "Some people are always jealous of other country's tech, yet here they also don't want to be the first one."

It is only bad fiction writing that attempts to be didactic or prophetic.

> the "Pu-tian clique",

From the outside it seems like they're notorious in China for having power and not being han chinese. Lets not let their ethnic stereotypes go unquestioned.

Acoording to a census, Pu-tian's population is 98.68% Han Chinese. https://wenku.baidu.com/view/deef8bc969dc5022aaea008b.html

The "Pu-tian clique" monopolized the Chinese private hospital industry, capitalizing on China's loose regulations and enforcement, started off by peddling snake-oil-like panacea across the country.

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