🧵 Why hasn't gene therapy exploded yet?
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:19:52 UTC No. 16277103
Every single individual has the capacity to edit genes in their own home using CRISPR kits and similar, and we have literally every concievable reason to upgrade our own software (namely, so we don't die or suffer). So with that being said, why haven't megacorporations and pharmecutical companies started openly researching and developing gene therapies like China has (or, at least, to the extent that they have)? I mean for God's sake, there is a man who lived with lactose intolerance all his life and CURED it, just with at-home gene therapy (linked below). This is a modern miracle, and the fact that we are not sprinting toward the further development of such technology when there are tens of millions of people born every single year hopelessly mentally retarded, physically deformed, or otherwise severely disposessed and suffering, is a massive moral failing of every country on Earth (other than China, who are seemingly the only ones who really breached these waters with no hesitation).
https://youtu.be/J3FcbFqSoQY
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:22:03 UTC No. 16277105
>>16277103
I forgot to add, CHina has recently CURED DIABETES using cell therapy.
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/sci
How the FUCK has gene and cell therapy research and development not become the key goal of the world?
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:26:20 UTC No. 16277108
>>16277103
Sure if your goal is the fastes way to get mystery cancer. While the human condition is still this badly understood I would never undergo some kind of gene edit. Its like throwing a nail into the inside of a machine full of moving gears.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:40:31 UTC No. 16277119
>>16277110
>let's just turn off the slaves' ability to be upset
I really do hate the antichrist.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 10:54:55 UTC No. 16277128
>>16277108
>Dismissing the infinite potential and already proven efficacy of gene therapy in battling already existing cancer out of fear of potential mystery cancer
I understand your point, but you're scared of jumping off the Titanic out of fear of the water which you will most certainly drown in if you stay on the ship. I never said *everyone* has to undergo it, but I'm sure you can agree that preventing people from being born with 4 arms and down syndrome would be a net positive to the world.
>>16277110
This could easily lead to both utopia and dystopia, but I think both paths will be paved to a degree. As with all other technologies ever concieved, its up to us to take inevitable progress and steer it in a positive direction.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:04:48 UTC No. 16277138
>>16277103
Mosaicism
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:09:44 UTC No. 16277144
>>16277110
Pain and psychological distress are physiological and serve essential functions. The vast majority of people who suffer from similiar disorders (no pain or extremely high pain threshold) die early from easily preventable and treatable injuries that either go unnoticed for a long time or the person simply doesn't care because lmao no pain no distress no problem.
The fact that retards running purely on animal instinct with zero intelligence treat pain and psychological distress as problems themselves rather than recognizing they're useful indicators that also give strong motivation to solve the actual underlying problems got to be one of the worst problems with modern medicine.
>be the average retard
>zero exercise
>shitty diet
>half an hour of sitting in a car to get to work
>8 hours of sitting at work
>another half an hour of car sitting on the way home
>spend another 6 hours of free time sitting in front of TV
>extreme back pain develops by the time you're 30
>the body is literally fucking SCREAMING and your RETARDED ASS to STOP FUCKING SITTING SO MUCH
>go to doctor
>doctor proposes a lifetyle change
>no :(
>defeated, doctor proposes a pill
>yay :)
>pill works
>no pain, no problem :)
>fast forward another 30 years
>pills no longer work
>body keeps fucking screaming for help
>back fucked beyond all repair, be one of these old people who walk with a cane at a permanent 90 degree angle
>will never play catch with grandkids
>woe is me, if only this could have been prevented!
Painkillers and their consequences have been a distaster for the human race.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 11:13:57 UTC No. 16277152
>>16277119
Jo Cameron doesn't feel fear or pain, but I don't think she's ever said that she doesn't get upset or feel dissatisfaction.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:02:51 UTC No. 16277258
>>16277103
the problem that prevents gene therapy from "exploding" is probably money and bureaucracy. Money in the sense that it is expensive to get all the gear and you need people that somewhat know what they are doing. The bureaucracy comes in a mix of government regulations and pharmacorpos wanting to cover their asses if something goes awry. You would have to create a sense of urgency like they did to profit from COVID, vaccines that usually take a decade to be developed due to lots of testing and trials was approved in less than a year.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:14:08 UTC No. 16277271
>>16277103
Is there any way to increase IQ? I'm white so I'm not lactose intolerant.
Anonymous at Thu, 11 Jul 2024 13:59:47 UTC No. 16277310
>>16277128
Your view of genetics is very simplistic. You also are totally unaware of the laws and regulations that is the medical field. There is a reason why Pfilzer tried to distance and protect itself from all negative outcomes. It was still big risk but the profit margins were just too promising with a customer base that was literally every government of the world.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 02:41:13 UTC No. 16278146
>>16277310
Yeah the point I'm making is we should lift regulations where it seems reasonable (like someone with terminal cancer who has three months to live, this can be an experimental treatment). Also, my view is simple because the fact of the matter is we either let millions suffer and die every year from something that can most certainly be solved, or we save them. Complicated details, simple history.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 03:49:37 UTC No. 16278193
>>16278146
As a person who is very spiritual and avoids unnatural things I still find myself agreeing with you that those with nothing left to lose should be granted this opportunity because it's better than dying hopeless.
Anonymous at Fri, 12 Jul 2024 08:54:36 UTC No. 16278476
>>16278193
Well I'm glad we could come to a major agreement, let's shake on it
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 12:42:21 UTC No. 16280204
>>16277144
This! So much this!
My father lost his sense of pain of the lower back in an accident.
The next 15 years herniated all of his disks...
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 13:29:26 UTC No. 16280231
>>16277103
because it doesnt work
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:11:44 UTC No. 16280533
>>16277110
>>16277105
Can I do both of these at home? I know there's "kill-switch genes," I'll add that
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:27:27 UTC No. 16280545
I'm a white girl (male) and I want the butt of a black girl
Anonymous at Sat, 13 Jul 2024 19:39:41 UTC No. 16280558
>>16280545
>(male)
?
Anonymous at Sun, 14 Jul 2024 01:44:56 UTC No. 16280888
>>16277103
Because it has the potential to fix problems and that would destroy neoliberalism which can only exist through artificial crises.