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The Skeptics Guide #941 - Jul 22 2023

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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The Ethics of Genetic Modification of Living Organisms

It's not like polio in that one intense, very quick public health measure cannot wipe it out because there's going to be too many reservoirs for this thing. And even if we eradicate this one vector, we're going to see that a lot of different animal species can still have malaria. It's the same ethical concern of what happens when we genetically modify a living organism and then we... We actually genetically modify it with something called a gene drive, which induces the change.

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