Posted on 06/30/2025 9:10:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yeah forgive me if I feel a creeping sense of dread and foreboding about this one.
From a UK non-profit called "Wellcome":
Wellcome is providing £10 million funding to the new Synthetic Human Genome Project (SynHG) to develop the foundational tools, technology and methods to enable researchers to one day synthesise genomes.
Building a full synthetic human genome is expected to take decades. Over the next five years, the SynHG project will build the foundational tools to enable this work.
The "ability to synthesize large genomes, including genomes for human cells, may transform our understanding of genome biology and profoundly alter the horizons of biotechnology and medicine," one researcher claimed.
Pretty sure we've heard that sort of thing before.
Remember, for instance, that years ago IVF was touted as a sort of salvific last-ditch effort for women with chronic fertility issues who are desperate to conceive. And now it's become a luxury consumer tool that creates and destroys countless innocent babies every year so that aging Millennials can have the children they put off having for 25 years.
Australian woman gives birth to a stranger’s baby after IVF mixup https://t.co/xUXMawdcyE— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) April 19, 2025
And don't forget that even existing DNA technology has been used to bizarre, likely morally reprehensible ends:
Georgia woman sues fertility clinic after she gives birth to another couple's babyhttps://t.co/Ak93LANm8x— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) February 21, 2025
Seems like most of the time scientists try to play God, they discover they're really, really, really bad at it.
Oh, did I mention that Wellcome is super woke? They even have the updated Pride flag in their profile pic!!
Don't worry though, the scientists assure us they're taking the whole ethics thing totally seriously:
With SynHG, we are building the tools to make large genome synthesis a reality. At the same time, we are proactively engaging in the social, ethical, economic and policy questions that may arise as the tools and technologies advance.
During the course of the work the researchers will "engage with people from a range of sectors, communities and geographies, as well as regulatory bodies and policy makers."
Yeah my money's on this being used to bad ends. Call me crazy (or just a good student of history).
Sounds like a great stopping point for Jesus to return and say “OK, everybody outta the pool, you’ve finally gone too far”.
“I’VE SEEN THIS MOVIE........IT DOES NOT END WELL........”.
You’re absolutely right.
This is a big part of the Transhumanism agenda. Pure evil.
Article written by Neo Anderson.. heh... Neo...
Covid-Frankenstein Reading List to bring you up to speed...
The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA
James Watson
As Gods: A Moral History of the Genetics Age
Matthew Cobb
Editing Humanity: The Crispr Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing
Kevin Davies
Lies My Gov’t Told Me: and the Better Future Coming
Robert W. Malone, MD, MS
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health
Robert F. Kennedy Jr
The Truth About Covid-19: Exposing The Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal
Dr. Joseph Mercola
Ronnie Cummins
A scientist is a person who researches to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences. - there's nothing natural about this and they're not "advancing" knowledge, they're reaching into a realm with more questions than answers.
They'd be much better off finding the nearest tall building or bridge and testing gravity off of it, instead of going down this road.
Yup
His grandfather’s name was Altman...
God will not be pleased…..it won’t end well for them.
So, is Gattaca, Blade Runner or Terminator coming first?
Mad scientists
Synthetic DNA will still not be alive. It will have to be inserted into a living cell. Life comes from life.
This is gene editing/splicing on steroids. I don’t know what the state of play is currently with regard to human zygotes, but the obvious first tier issue would be a parent (of either sex) who carries the gene for some serious genetic condition. What are the ethics of screening egg or sperm cells prior to fertilization to select one that doesn’t carry the problem gene(s)? Or editing a defective gene and using the “corrected” sperm or egg for fertilization? Are we really morally obligated to NOT correct for conditions like cystic fibrosis or Fanconi’s Anemia if we can edit them out PRIOR to fertilization?
We already have wide acceptance of genetic screening of embryos for multiple conditions, with abortion being the dominant choice in response to a variety of conditions (e.g. Downs Syndrome).
This is not the same thing as creating a highly artificial designer baby selected with multiple desirable traits engineered in. Nor is it the same thing as splicing in genetic coding from other people. It would be a matter of editing out a specific piece of defective coding using a person’s own genetic material. Nor is it the same thing as human cloning, although I would not be surprised if that isn’t being done in secret.
Of course, the next step would be ....
My prediction is that this kind of genetic editing will be embraced by the very same luddites who reject GMO corn, because a precisely controlled edit to make a corn plant toxic to common pests is somehow an offense against Gaia. But these very same people will clamor for the genetic editing of their own children in the hunt to produce perfect babies.
Well, to be fair, there’s a lot to be said in favor of extra nostrils and a third eye in the middle of your forehead.
Great, now they will be able optimize people for DEI and Affirmative Action, and think about the government grant possibilities for various combined ethnic groups that can be harvested.
Fake (man manufactured) anything is bad for us and the world.
Mankind’s tech abilities have far outstripped its ability to use it wisely.
There are some areas they should not be going and manipulating DNA is one of them.
We simply don’t know enough about what any one gene can do to be able to safely mess with it.
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