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CRISPR is very dangerous and I don’t think humans are ready for that kind of power. I don’t think we ever will be.
CRISPR is a gene editing tool. It’s still in its early stages but it can, or will soon be able to, genetically modify anything. It could edit diseases out of DNA. It could edit in resistances to certain things. It could potentially snip out mutations that cause cancer.
It’s already been tested on mosquito populations in Brazil and no one seemed to consider what would happen to the ecosystem when they did it and it fucked stuff up. They modified mosquitoes so that they would be sterile. The terminator mosquitos bred themselves out of existence and the remaining population that interbred but didn’t go sterile developed resistance to such methods and experienced population booms to even out the loss of the sterile mosquitos.
This can be very fucking dangerous if it gets into the hands of bad people - and it WILL. People that would want to use it on humans. Sure, it could edit out mutations that cause babies to be stillborn. On the other hand, what’s stopping someone from say.. sterilizing people that have the genetic markers for certain hair colors. Eye colors. Entire fucking races of people. It’s eugenics at the push of the button.
CRISPR has the potential to do a lot of good but humans have to realize it’s a power that we are not meant to wield. Humans cannot be trusted with it. It’s playing god where you don’t even know the rules of the game.
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Not only is the public's perception of ASPD horribly skewed, actual psychiatrists often have numerous misconceptions about what the disorder is and how it can present. Actually, that statement applies to many mental and physical illnesses, not just ASPD. And clinical diagnoses aren't always right. Even the diagnoses themselves are updated, and some are created or discarded entirely.
What I'm trying to say is, psychiatry as a whole is far from perfect, and psychiatrists are human beings who make mistakes like everyone else. ASPD, and its cousins CD and NPD, are incredibly misunderstood disorders, and while that won't likely ever change, at least I myself finally managed to get a proper diagnosis.
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M42: Inside the Orion Nebula : The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, is probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away. In the featured deep image in assigned colors highlighted by emission in oxygen and hydrogen, wisps and sheets of dust and gas are particularly evident. The Great Nebula in Orion can be found with the unaided eye near the easily identifiable belt of three stars in the popular constellation Orion. In addition to housing a bright open cluster of stars known as the Trapezium, the Orion Nebula contains many stellar nurseries. These nurseries contain much hydrogen gas, hot young stars, proplyds, and stellar jets spewing material at high speeds. Also known as M42, the Orion Nebula spans about 40 light years and is located in the same spiral arm of our Galaxy as the Sun. via NASA
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schizo spec and aspd be like: eternal emptiness and boredom
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Franz Kafka, “The Diaries of Franz Kafka,” 1910-1913
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Pegasus by Bogdan Rezunenko
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do you have a criminal record
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sm bg redraws!
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my shop
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One could say that if we are all special snowflakes, we are also all part of the avalanche, and yet there is a key difference between us and snowflakes:
A snowflake in an avalanche doesn’t get to decide where it’s going.
You do.
Therein lies your freedom, and your responsibility.
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“Blood Volume VII” by @joshuabeatsontattoo, via @creepmachine.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBThsZtDz8E/?igshid=hcpij15abgk
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