[Red Badger]

Video at link............

[NorthMountain]

[Bitman]

Man playing God. What could possibly go wrong?

[seawolf101]

[ptsal]

Remember the honey bee breeding program that started in Brazil and led to the explosion of angry critters known as Africanized Bees.

Wait until the geneticists start customizing the human genome.    /#dread

[Spruce]

Dinks like this may actually kill us all

[dfwgator]

Paging the Spims.....

[sport]

I seriously doubt if it was an accident. They created the AIDS virus and then sent it to Africa and then told the public that the AIDS virus was created when a man screwed a monkey.

[Rapscallion]

Oxitech should pay at least a million dollar fine.

[Wuli]

Every species, humans included, have tons of genes that geneticists merely think are “inactive” or “have no function”, when in truth, for many genes, they do not know if they have any function or not. All they really know is they have no function that the geneticists know of.

Then there is the epigenetic factor, where genes either become inactive or become active only when some external factor causes them to “turn on” or “turn off”.

In short, geneticists do not know everything about the genes they study.

[duckman]

I immediately thought of a 50’s Sci-Fi flick.

[TomGuy]

I am shocked.

Genetically modified. What could go wrong?

[myerson]

DDT

[AndyJackson]

I know this thing about random variation and natural selection is deprecated among a certain set of the FR community, but here we have it in spades. Except in this case it was a deliberate variation, but we forgot that life is very very very very complex, and if you believe in evolution, then to get where we are today, life had to develop to adapt to, survive, and be strengthened by anything mother nature threw its way. So we try throwing something its way and we think we know how it will turn out.

Yet we are still discovering bizarre life forms in all kinds of bizarre environments where we figured life could not possibly survive.

[bgill]

Seems scientists are always having these “accidents”.

[where's_the_Outrage?]

Sounds like a typical Dem plan to fix a problem but actually makes it worse.

[rktman]

For more commentary:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3778914/posts

Now, where is my skeeter zapper?

[Ancesthntr]

Stupid f’ers! If they had any sense to begin with, they’d have started with the simplest, cheapest and most effective anti-mosquito treatment ever invented: DDT.

Now they had better use DDT before these particular mosquitoes really become a big problem. This is just like fire ants - and didn’t they originally get released/escape into the wild in the Western Hemisphere starting in Brazil?

Hell, just nuke Brazil. God only knows what’s next - maybe they’re going to create smart sharks with lasers? Dumb bastards!

[txrefugee]

The fruits of science have killed millions. And now they are messing with animal/human projects. What could possibly go wrong?

[Lazamataz]

This is how the Zombie Apocalypse starts.

[Boogieman]

"The offspring of the gene-hacked mosquitoes and the natural ones are thought to be more robust..."

Well, duh. Nobody teaches these scientists basic genetics before they turn them loose on the gene-editing equipment?

Heterosis (Hybrid Vigor)