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#533 - Matthew Cobb - Should We Genetically Edit Human Life?
Modern Wisdom
The Fundamental Issue With the Biological Weapons Convention
The level of security within these labs is inferior to the lethality of what they're synthesizing. The Biological Weapons Convention was signed in 1972 at the very same moment that genetic engineering became a reality. It has no power of inspection or sanction, so if anybody were to go out with its rules, so what? We need ways of controlling it that are not simply on paper, but also involve people in hazmat suits going into laboratories and measuring air pressure," he says.
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