Your premise is BS. The Aedes mosquito is ALREADY THERE. All this is doing is introducing more of them with a genetic defect to make less of them. Not the same as rabbits at all.
> Your premise is BS. The Aedes mosquito is ALREADY THERE. All this is doing is introducing more of them with a genetic defect to make less of them. Not the same as rabbits at all.
Gotta disagree, mate. The premise fits perfectly.
The situation is identical to rabbits, mate: thanks to some bright spark 150 years ago, the rabbits are now ALREADY HERE. All the Scientists were doing was introducing a scientifically enhanced RCD to make less of them.
A jolly experiment that went horribly wrong. As usual. Whodathunkit that rabbits can develop immunities and RCD can mutate? That wasn’t part of the original experiment but hey, what an exciting scientific finding, ay.
Like I said, scientists are NOT TO BE TRUSTED. They are like Wile E Coyote: hapless and full of bright ideas that never quite work out as well as hoped. They do not know what they are doing, and they are never held accountable for the damage that they do.
Someone ought to toss a net over every scientist who wants to meddle with anything more complex than his basic chemistry set and slide-rule.
There’s a good reason for the Mad Scientist stereotype: like most stereotypes, it is well-founded in fact. Not all Scientists are Mad, just like not all Scotsmen are thrifty. But enough of each of them are to make the stereotype fit.
Science is a DISCREDITED profession trying to be as respectable as, say, mathematics.