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That’s not mind-boggling. If you start putting out restrictions and regulations everything is going to fizzle out like 100s of other fields have done in the past. There hasn’t been any significant paradigm shifting progress in genetic engineering because everyone’s hands are tied when we could probably accomplish so much that would benefit hundreds of millions of people.

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> like 100s of other fields have done in the past

Could you list, say, a dozen such fields? It should be very easy if there are, uh, hundreds of them.

> There hasn’t been any significant paradigm shifting progress in genetic engineering because everyone’s hands are tied

Or maybe there hasn't been such progress (across a wide range of polities with a wide range of regulatory environments) because it's incredibly hard?

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