Cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/10630129

He Jiankui’s experiments sent shockwaves through the medical and scientific world. He was widely condemned for having gone ahead with the risky, ethically contentious and medically unjustified procedure with inadequate consent from the families involved.

The court found that He had forged documents from an ethics review panel that were used to recruit couples for his research.

He said he had used a gene-editing procedure known as Crispr-Cas9 to rewrite the DNA in the sisters’ embryos – modifications he claimed would make the children immune to HIV.

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He cured aids.

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He CLAIMS he stopped a child from being susceptible to HIV.

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Are you suggesting that a doctor who forged ethics documentation and performed experimental gene editing on humans would overstate the impact of his work? Pffft.

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God Forbid

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