RE: Curating the Internet: Science and technology digest for February 17, 2020
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.
In fact the article linked is exactly what I was referring to.
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.