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RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for February 17, 2020

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Thanks for the reply!

On your point about cancer and CRISPR, I meant to add a link back to Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for January 30, 2020 when I got done summarizing, but it was a long article, and it slipped my mind at the end. That post included something similar to what you're talking about, a Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'.

It doesn't really contradict the author's advocacy for medical conservatism, though. Something like that would almost certainly have clear benefits and strong evidence. And I thought that the perspective on screening is important.

On corruption, as-is typical of mainstream scientists, the article actually focused far more on corruption between doctors and big-pharma, but I agree with your perspective that at the core the USG programs are what make that corruption possible.

On eugenics, you're probably right that Dawkins was intentionally stirring the pot. I can't think of many other reasons to make that statement with such controversial phrasing... or even, really, to make it at all.

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In fact the article linked is exactly what I was referring to.

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The new genes delivered via viral vectors would be inserted using CRISPR. There are other mechanisms for inserting genes, but CRISPR is pretty dominant in the field today.