Case Closed!
These morons develop solution for Africa and Asia because when their silver-bullets blow-up these morons are thousands of miles away from the blow-back and happily move into "mosquito sterilization" or some other fancy shit.
Unless you are feeding your SON golden rice for the past decade - do not tell any one including the poor to eat the "fraken"-rice.
Precautionary Principle!
I'm sure you can express your substantive points thoughtfully if you want to. Please do that when commenting on HN.
I understand the attitude behind your comment but it's not that simple. Not every region or country has the same requirements and it's more important to see whether something works or not.
It's always, "Were juuuuust editing a couple genes here. Why do you idiots hate science?" Meanwhile, their higher-IQed classmates can't go two weeks without breaking the frigging build.
Unfortunately, this is a tech board, and Lamettrieism runs wild.
Just mix determinist beliefs, sloppy models, and a dangerous overestimation of one's own intelligence--then things are pretty much guaranteed to end the same way old Julien did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Offray_de_La_Mettrie#Ph...