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I too want there to be editing of humans for the betterment of mankind. Maybe I'll do an effort post to this end on what's been tried, what's possible, costs and the near future of gene therapy and editing. The latest I've seen from him involved working on DMD, but I don't see any recent papers by him in PubMed or Google Scholar.
Regardless, I'm not certain I want to throw behind a shit-posting scientist. Is it too much to ask our best and brightest minds and leaders not to shit-post and troll (Hsu, Trump, He)? Is it too much to ask leaders to have gravitas and not give in to spite just to own their enemies? I guess I'll just resign myself to wait for someone to develop a cure for ALS and announce it on twitter with something like, "Despite the FAGGOTRY of ESTABLISMENT midwits, my 10X team has developed a SAFE and EFFECTIVE treatment for twitchy fuckers w/ALS. You're welcome gaybros! See below for preprint 1/n"
It is unclear to me that He/He shitposts at all. It comes across as charmingly misguided sincerity. Too much social awkwardness or the inability to conform gets labeled autistic for me to pin that label on him, but I don't think he's consciously shitposting or cultivating a persona.
That's probably just how He is.
And when he says "I will not give a lecture in Harvard university for free.", all I can is that he knows his worth, king.
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