
Deegees
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A peer-reviewed paper published last year in the journal Bioethics by two professors at Western Michigan University School of Medicine argues that it is "morally obligatory" to genetically engineer ticks to spread alpha-gal syndrome, a permanent condition that makes you violently allergic to red meat. The paper is called "Beneficial Bloodsucking." Their argument: if eating meat is morally wrong, then preventing the spread of a disease that forces people to stop eating meat is also morally wrong. Scientists should gene-edit lone star ticks to enhance their ability to carry alpha-gal syndrome and expand their range into urban environments to infect more people. They call this a "moral bioenhancer." They frame releasing genetically modified disease-carrying ticks as a "vaccination" that only "infringes" on your bodily autonomy rather than "violating" it. The distinction, apparently, is that a tick bit you instead of a government official holding you down. Alpha-gal syndrome is not mild. The CDC estimates up to 450,000 Americans are already affected. Cases have surged 100-fold in the last decade. Symptoms include anaphylaxis. There is no cure. Alpha-gal cases are exploding across the United States. The lone star tick's range is expanding far beyond its historical territory. And two academics at a medical school published a paper arguing this is a good thing that should be accelerated. At what point do we stop treating papers like this as fringe academic exercises and start asking whether anyone is already acting on them?










You are a LYING scumbag @bennyjohnson and just to be clear we are definitely not friends. All you cover and elevate are trending LIES. And get paid to do it. Literally the most repulsive level of MAGA. I NEVER fled America. Yes I sold my house in Rome, Ga and have ANOTHER house under contract in Georgia. As Brian and I are planning to get married and I wanted to live closer to my family, like my Mom and kids. And now I’m on vacation, gee what a scandal, you moron. You could have reached out and asked me about the complete and total BULLSHIT Loomer was posting, BUT NOPE!! Instead, you chose to trash talk me, name call me, and spread the lies for money. And since you decided to do this people have been telling me things I had no idea about you. Allegations about young men at conservative conferences? Allegations that you got paid by Russia and Israel? Allegations that you rip off people’s content and articles and pretend like it’s your own? How about you cover those trending topics Benny.














