If there's a big enough Government grant involved or the promise of accolades from a shrill and influential minority pressure group, I'm guessing that they will be able to eventually make anything at all fly out of any orifice in your body.
Questions such as "will it truly benefit Mankind?" are strictly verboten and are grounds for Hate Crime prosecution.
Which raises the question, who's this Greg Aharonian guy quoted in the article? His comment has "gay Mau-Mau" written all over it.