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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?

British woman: If I had to pick between an island with patriotic right wing men and muslim men, "I would 100% feel safe and secure on the island with muslim men"

You’re going to have to give young men status and wealth, but everyone would literally rather die than do that, so fertility is going to continue to go down.

UK-based VTuber and artist Mimi Yanagi was arrested on April 20 for her own drawings of anime-style characters. These drawings were 100% fictional, made up by her, with no real people involved. UK law still treats these kinds of drawings as illegal child pornography, police took all her computers and devices. She has now been released on bail, but she is not allowed to post any “adult” content. She must also use an account name approved by the police. The UK is lost, you can’t even draw now, they will put you in prison

Alfonso Ribeiro and his wife Angela have been married for 12 years! ❤️

For all the talk of a “second civil war”, there are not yet clearly defined geographic rival power centers that would be one of many necessarily prerequisites for a true civil conflict. But we’re slowly getting there. The geographic self-sorting, combined with extreme levels of gerrymandering, will increasingly turn America into two clear power blocs that you can identify even at the Congressional level.

Underrated reason why Gen Z doesn't watch old media is because it will make you existentially depressed at what America has become. I was watching X Files and was tweaking that I missed the golden age by only a few decades.

NEW: Claude helps reddit user build home wet lab & sequence genome with zero lab experience.

The United States Triumphal Arch – Celebrating 250 Years of America 🇺🇸

Pope Leo XIV responds to President Trump: "I have no fear of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel, which is what I believe I am here to do and what the Church is here to do."

Oh humans, what are you doing?? This autistic young man between 16-18 years old was euthanised in Holland because he was joyless and terribly lonely. Poor,poor boy, instead of adults loving him and helping him, they chose to kill him instead.