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#533 - Matthew Cobb - Should We Genetically Edit Human Life?
Modern Wisdom
The Difference Between Could and Should
I'm not terribly concerned about biohackers, but it is the case that in fact the west security obsessions about this grew enormously after 9-11. The Soviet Union had been carrying out bioweapons research from the mid-1970s onwards without anybody knowing what was going on. This became apparent towards the end of the 1980s when a series of defectors revealed to the west what had been going on. So we decided to try and master genetics and then isolate these particular weapon systems which are very hard to master. And eventually people did pay attention because Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan discovered by some of their leaders saying that enemy kept on telling us such an amazing thing. Now they failed
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