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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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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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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A racist wouldn't give a sh*t about malaria in Africa though. Just saying...
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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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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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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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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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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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I agree with genetic modification of mosquitos but I found this article to be an anti-environmentalist screed
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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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