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Dangerous biological research - is it worth it? (Kevin Esvelt)

Rationally Speaking Podcast

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The Risks and Benefits of Gen Drives

Keen: Gen drives allow us to edit the genus of an animal species. Keen: We can't run phase two until the pandemic actually hits, because otherwise what you're proposing to do is vaccinate half of them with your experimental vaccine and then infect all of them with a virus that has never infected humans before. That's just not plausible.

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