{"id":9451,"date":"2018-12-01T21:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-12-02T04:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=9451"},"modified":"2018-12-16T22:02:13","modified_gmt":"2018-12-17T05:02:13","slug":"frankenstein-from-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2018\/12\/01\/frankenstein-from-within\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein From Within"},"content":{"rendered":"

from Discover Magazine<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Will We See \u201cMonstrous\u201d Neuroscience?<\/h1>\n

By Neuroskeptic<\/a><\/p>\n

\"monster_brain\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The science story of the past week was the claim from Chinese scientist He Jiankui that he has created gene-edited human babies<\/a>. Prof. He reports that two twin girls have been born carrying modifications of the gene CCR5<\/a>, which is intended to protect them against future HIV risk.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s far from clear yet whether the gene-editing that He described has actually taken place \u2013 no data has yet been presented.\u00a0 The very prospect of genetically-modifying human beings has, however, led to widespread concern, with He\u2019s claims being described as \u201cmonstrous<\/a>\u201c, \u201ccrazy\u201d and \u201cunethical\u201d<\/a>.
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All of which got me wondering: could there ever be a neuroscience experiment which attracted the same level of condemnation?<\/p>\n

What I\u2019m asking here is whether there are neuroscience advances that would be considered inherently<\/em> unethical. It would, of course, be possible to carry out any neuroscience experiment in an unethical way, by forcing or tricking people into participation. But are there experiments which would be unethical even if all the participants gave full, informed consent at every stage?<\/p>\n

Here are a couple of possibilites:<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at Discover<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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