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.
It does seem suspicious to claim you did something that can only be disproven if this child purposefully exposes themselves to HIV enough times that it’s statistically impossible not to have caught it.
I, on the other hand, have made hundreds of people immune to HIV just by shaking their hands. 🤝