On: Startups are pushing the boundaries of reproductive genetics

[darth_avocado]

Genetic engineering is banned because people will almost certainly use it for something else more nefarious than cure AIDS the first chance they get.

[xvector → darth_avocado]

The same can be said of things like mRNA vaccines, but they have done good for society.

You're also just wrong - the first scientist to genetically edit human embryos edited in immunity to AIDS.

[fruitworks → xvector]

the first, but not the last

[smileson2 → darth_avocado]

the methods of cleaning up messes introduced are also kind of disgusting

[boxed → darth_avocado]

Citation needed.

[darth_avocado → boxed]

Some things don’t need citation. Nuclear energy is a great example. You don’t need citations to explain why allowing every country to pursue it is a bad idea.

[boxed → darth_avocado]

Again: citation needed.

A huge chunk of the environmental disaster we are facing is because Europe and the US didn't go the nuclear route like France did in the 60. We could have had this crisis we're having now in a few hundred years instead.

[darth_avocado → boxed]

You need citation on why authoritarian dictatorships shouldn’t have access to nuclear power?

[boxed → darth_avocado]

Yea. Nuclear power is not the same thing as nuclear weapons.

[darth_avocado → boxed]

Of course it isn’t. But once you have access to nuclear power, you can have access to nuclear weapons very quickly.