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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker Aug 25

    A defense of experimenting with gene drive to combat malaria by @richtren, co-founder of Africa Fighting Malaria. @HumanProgress https://humanprogress.org/article.php?p=1469 … #HumanProgressData

    10:55 AM - 25 Aug 2018
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      2. Kjell K. Williams‏ @KjellWilliams Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @richtren @HumanProgress

        If only to avoid any suspicion of racism, perhaps a trial involving genetically modified mosquitoes should first be launched in North America or Europe, and not in Africa. Thoughts?

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      3. Jarful of Love‏ @Akev4262F Aug 26
        Replying to @KjellWilliams @sapinker and

        Seems a bit far to go to avoid suspicion of racism, but I hate mosquitoes, so I'm all for it.

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      4. Kjell K. Williams‏ @KjellWilliams Aug 26
        Replying to @Akev4262F @sapinker and

        Haha, me too! I agree it might seem a bit far, but we do have a history of doing these things. The Tuskeege Airmen experiment is not that long ago, and the military's medical experiments on Desert Storm soldiers is even more recent.

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      5. Jarful of Love‏ @Akev4262F Aug 26
        Replying to @KjellWilliams @sapinker and

        A racist wouldn't give a sh*t about malaria in Africa though. Just saying...

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      6. Kjell K. Williams‏ @KjellWilliams Aug 26
        Replying to @Akev4262F @sapinker and

        A fair point. Still, as with anything else, I believe racism in on a sliding scale and not binary. One can be slightly racist. And everybody would feel more comfortable testing out new technology far away from home. Testing it at home requires more confidence in the quality.

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      7. Jarful of Love‏ @Akev4262F Aug 26
        Replying to @KjellWilliams @sapinker and

        Of course. But there's a reason chemotherapy drugs are never tested on healthy subjects; they're dangerous, just not as dangerous as cancer. Everything's a risk/benefit tradeoff, and it's hard to trade malaria with something worse.

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      8. Jarful of Love‏ @Akev4262F Aug 26
        Replying to @Akev4262F @KjellWilliams and

        To subject a healthy population to risk with no possibility of benefit, just to assuage white guilt, would be an incredible abrogation of the hippocratic oath. Not to mention the nightmare of getting that past an ethics committee

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      9. Kjell K. Williams‏ @KjellWilliams Aug 26
        Replying to @Akev4262F @sapinker and

        I'm not talking about subjecting a healthy population to risk. There must be a real disease fought, or else the scientists would have no way of checking whether the cure worked, whether the rate of infections were reduced.

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      1. truth‏ @truth_realism Sep 5
        Replying to @sapinker @richtren @HumanProgress

        Notice what is said about DDT and about the motivation “fewer people, unpopular but increasing restrictions on technology (making it more and more expensive.)”

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      1. Matt White‏ @matticuspeace Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @richtren @HumanProgress

        I agree with genetic modification of mosquitos but I found this article to be an anti-environmentalist screed

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      1. Eleanor Morton‏ @eleanor_morton Aug 25
        Replying to @sapinker @richtren @HumanProgress

        Good article. I've been active in Friends of the Earth in the past but I've never supported their stance on genetic modifications I think this technology will become mainstream in the next few decades

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