They just don’t know when to stop fucking with nature, from “The Download.”
“The news: A West Coast biotech entrepreneur says he’s secured $30 million to form a public-benefit company to study how to safely create genetically edited babies, marking the largest known investment into the taboo technology.
How they’re doing it: The new company, called Preventive, is being formed to research so-called “heritable genome editing,” in which the DNA of embryos would be modified by correcting harmful mutations or installing beneficial genes. The goal would be to prevent disease.”
“public-benefit” company? Must be a new tax dodge like charities, consuming most of the funds by over-paid executives, only different, there will be private enrichment and nefarious applications.
Here in Michigan legalizing cannabis was supposed to invigorate the entry-level small business segment, even referred to as”mom and pop shops.” What a clusterfuck that’s been for employers.
“For a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
The medicine go down, the medicine go down
Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
In a most delightful way.”