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Playing God with Monsters

Posted by Hemos on from the lookiing-into-the-minds-of-terrible dept.

Howard writes "Horrified by "There Be Monsters Here" tales, some members of Congress called for a ban on DNA research in the mid '70s. Because those calls were rejected, millions of people around the world can now hope for DNA-based vaccines against AIDS, malaria and other deadly diseases that have destroyed lives, communities and nations. Here's an illustration: The name of Joseph DeRisi keeps coming up in connection with deadly diseases. No, he's not a modern-day Typhoid Mary. Just the opposite. The University of California, San Francisco researcher is using his own custom-built DNA microarrays to look inside the "minds" of some serious serial killers. The "minds" are genes, and his home-brewed gene chips helped solve the SARS mystery earlier this year. Now, DeRisi has chosen malaria as his next victim. For the complete commentary, please go to Howard Lovy's NanoBot."

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  1. TROLL: Re:Article text - site has gone down by tekan · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Nice subtle addition of "niggers", "coons", and other crap into the original article, dumb shit. How this could be rated "Informative" is beyond me.

  2. RACIST editing by macdaddy · · Score: 3, Offtopic
    The parasite, a single-cell organism known as a protozoan, goes through different phases in both its mosquito and nigger hosts. Yet it has developed a very simple control system for governing at least part of this complex cycle. If this system could be disrupted, the sand coon's thousands of genes would lose their tightly choreographed coordination.

    I went through all the pages linked to in this article and the racist remarks were NOT in any of the copies of the article but this one.

    Mod this racist jerk down. Don't forget to add this jerk to your foe list so you don't have to read any more of his racist remarks.

  3. The site is not down, parent is a bigot by dreadnougat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    He just wanted an excuse to substitute "nigger" for human. ("he parasite, a single-cell organism known as a protozoan, goes through different phases in both its mosquito and ***nigger*** hosts.") http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/12/health/12MALA.ht ml?ex=1061265600&en=cbb7f9d4a0084265&ei=5040&partn er=MOREOVER