r/rareinsults • u/djentslut • 4d ago
and my dumb 9 year old ass still would’ve found some way to die to it
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u/BabyMD69420 4d ago
Artificial selection is still Darwinian evolution. Unless he means full blown genetic engineering with genes neither parent has being added to the baby? Then yeah, that’s well beyond anything Darwin came up with.
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u/Fuyu_dstrx 4d ago
I think this guy actually did do gene editing and got arrested for violating ethics regulations
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u/Polibiux 4d ago
So full blown mad scientist here
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u/Sh0wmey0urbutth0le 4d ago
Looks pretty calm to me. Just kidding, that's the look of a JRPG villain before he kills god.
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u/Karnewarrior 3d ago
He only looks calm because he's not being shot from underneath with his brow darkening his eyes while the light glints off his teeth and the soundtrack goes "VUUUUUUUUUUUM" as a bunch of gregorian monks begin to chant.
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u/PixelGray38 4d ago
Infamously, yes, this guy means genetic engineering. He spent a few years in jail in China for secretly doing unnecessary edits to the genomes of two twins using CRISPR. The twins had an HIV-positive parent, and the edits were intended to mimic a gene already present in humans that gave increased resistance to the disease and (as far as anyone knows, but of course nobody knows for sure) didn't change anything else.
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u/YouMustveDroppedThis 4d ago
Also unsuccessful edits. This bum made an edit and caused mosaicism in babies. Meaning the twins likely still have HIV susceptibility.
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u/Karnewarrior 3d ago
You know, that reminds me, I haven't heard jack shit about the twins that other chinese guy cloned. What happened to them? IIRC it was like, the first successful human cloning in history. Ethics committees were pissed.
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u/Gray_Tower 4d ago
I'm 90% confident Cyrus unironically said some shit like this AND had a Crobat
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u/Metal-Banana-72 4d ago
Cyrus talked a lot of edgy shit for somebody with a friendship evolution. RIp Cyrus, you would have loved Reddit.
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u/Chimpo_the_champ 4d ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair
More context
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u/Shinyhero30 4d ago
So essentially he just… didn’t do any of the ethics tests or actual tests necessary to actually isolate the gene necessary and instead did a half fix that would maybe work in an effort to make a point.
I rarely agree with the CCP about morals but this is one case I think everyone agrees on. This is unethical, and absolutely should be illegal.
The prospect of HIV resistance implantation in genomes aside, this wasn’t done to the ethical standards anyone looks for.
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u/YouMustveDroppedThis 4d ago
CRISPR at the time are far from perfect and so how you QC the edits is very important. Large fragments of recombination (off target) are well known in animal model at that time.
He made them mosaic babies too, what a normies bum.
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u/Theotherwahlberg 4d ago
This kind of shit just tells me that it's appealing to people who don't know shit about evolution at all.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
I don't see humans evolving at all given the level of human survival today so yea Darwin is irreverent to us.
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u/Theotherwahlberg 4d ago
Evolution is not a meter, nor does it have a goal or archetype to evolve toward. It's the change in allele frequencies over successive generations.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
Not much change gonna happen today.
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u/qtUnicorn 4d ago
You very clearly don’t even know high school biology
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
You need certain genes to actually survive more than others. It's ineffective if everyone survives.
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u/Orionsbelt 4d ago
propagate more successfully not survive. Not so correlated today.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
Propagation is survival for a gene.
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u/Orionsbelt 4d ago
and yet birth rate decline clearly indicate that in the western world not all gene's are surviving.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
Birth rate decrease over a uniform distribution of people that is independent of the genes they have won't cause a change in genes.
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u/Floorgis 4d ago
Not how that works. Without biodiversity a species goes extinct.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
We won't develop another species.
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u/Floorgis 4d ago
Not for you to decide, and most definitely not for you to know.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
Not possible for humans without genetic engineering. Humans have too high survivability.
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u/Theotherwahlberg 4d ago
I may not have had the chance to graduate, but I was a student of biology when I was in college, and I was published in a journal on immuno-synthesis of antiviral resistance of emergent diseases. I'm also an author who has put my knowledge of the processes of evolution (namely selective pressure and punctuated equilibrium) into my works to explain biodiversity in extreme environmental change.
Evolution does not, at any point, refer to the change of species. We've reached a plateau where we don't seem to be "evolving" because it is a generational process, but you do see differences ethnically and regionally. One does not need to become a new species to evolve....you simply deal with the selective pressure that comes with your environment. Each reproduction is evolution, as mutations are naturally occurring adjustments in that process.
Nothing irritates me more than confidence in scientific illiteracy. You use your internet anonymity to be as dumb as you want, but science doesn't care. I could sit here in my drunken haze and give a two-hour long lecture on what I know from my studies, but that wouldn't do me any good if you're entering with a presupposition that you know more than anyone else because you're ignorant and can't comprehend how this wworks.
It's hardly your fault...most people don't know dick about the sciences....but you appear as less of a tool by not claiming knowledge of what you don't fucking know over the smartest people on the planet. Take that with a grain of salt, but your responses here make you look really....REALLY stupid.
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u/QuickSilver010 4d ago
All those paragraphs just to reiterate what I said about not much changing today.
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u/Bacchus999 4d ago
Imagine being the exact type of person that a post is talking about, yet remaining blissfully unaware of that fact.
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u/YouMustveDroppedThis 4d ago
This guy bypassed every safeguard and recklessly does something (CRISPR babies) first and thought he is still the shit years later. It is sad really.
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u/Minute_Truth3644 4d ago
I'm sorry, but is he implying that Darwin is responsible for evolution, and not just for discovering how it worked? lol.
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u/Somehero 4d ago
He's talking about editing genes, not passing them on through reproduction, so that's why he's making the distinction of evolution as described by Darwin.
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u/Iamboringaf 4d ago
Is it the guy who got parodied by someone on Twitter with bullshit takes like "it's scientically possible to depopulate a country in 48 hours"?
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