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No one will touch this guy with a ten foot pole. Nothing he did technically was novel - it was just that everyone who had the skills to edit an embryo was unwilling and uninterested in doing so. Having him as part of your organization basically broadcasts to the world that you’re going to be doing wildly unethical things. Not a great path to commercialization of any therapeutic.

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This is sad though. I'd rather see that ethics gets upgraded so some problems can be fixed.

For example, about 8% of men get excluded from certain professions such as being a train driver, due to color blindness. And society doesn't seem to care enough to switch to colorblind-friendly signaling.

With gene editing, this problem could be repaired in the other end, so that men will have the same chance as women to get perfect vision.

Its worse than that. Someone wants to set him up with a lab in Austin TX. Its the CCP which thinks "maybe we should not let the mad scientist out where someone will let him continue his experiments." (A later story says that he will direct assistants in Texas over the Internet). https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3271952/chin...

If the applied science catches on, then children in 2525 will look back and ask why we refused to cure ourselves of so much suffering.

The winner is King and the loser is the bandit, or as we say in the west: history is written by the victor.

I was thinking more like secret labs and cash payments.

There are ways to sponsor an ice breaker indirectly, so you can setup in the lighter grey areas he already went through. The fearfull shall not inherit the earth, as nature is one huge machine to crush those playing it safe.

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