Scientists rush to treat diseases with Gene Therapy: It must be good for Humanity, surely?
Eg: Cystic Fibrosis
https://www.pharmaceutical-journal.com/news-and-analysis/features/developing-gene-therapy-to-treat-cystic-fibrosis-challenges-and-successes/20201275.article
But creating a method of delivery for genetic material may bring all the psychopaths out to play: could the delivery of genetic material be weaponised by errant regimes? Viral vectors may be an ideal weapon of mass destruction
Modern science demands that we publish all our methodology in great detail. But whose eyes are falling upon this research and should we not be thinking of a way to better control the flow of potentially catastrophic information?
Or is it too late? Pandora's Box...
' Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.'
J. Robert Oppenheimer - Wikipedia'
'Father of the Atom Bomb'
Hi Fazleh, please pardon the rewrite:
Scientists rush to treat bacterial infections with antibiotic therapy: It must be good for Humanity, surely?
Eg: gangrene, sepsis.
Good one, S Stefansson
But even so, what about poor antibiotic policy leading to multi-drug antibiotic resistance? The need for policies and regulation also became apparent there. I am not saying to stop the research. But we should do it with care?
Regards
Hi Fazleh, it is true that we are in this tight spot because any and all doctors can prescribe antibiotics to anybody ad libitum. Gene therapy is different because it has to be individualized.