Name: Anonymous 2016-08-05 21:12
So this is a thing in America:
Doesn't anyone realize the abject fucking stupidity of releasing genetically modified mosquitoes that produce infertile offspring? What's the point of genetically modifying a species if the modified individuals can't reproduce? Do they fucking know that there are billions of people living in tropical regions of the world, so to release 20 mosquitoes per person they would have to make tens of billions of male mosquitoes who cannot even fucking breed? Fucking inbred idiots. And someone's paying them...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/05/florida-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-zika
A release of mosquitoes genetically engineered to produce dead offspring and thus combat the spread of the Zika virus has been approved in Florida by the US Food and Drug Administration
in an experimental trial on Key Haven, a small island in the Florida Keys
It is not clear how many engineered mosquitoes could be released. Parry said it could vary from 20 to 100 mosquitoes per person on the island.
Doesn't anyone realize the abject fucking stupidity of releasing genetically modified mosquitoes that produce infertile offspring? What's the point of genetically modifying a species if the modified individuals can't reproduce? Do they fucking know that there are billions of people living in tropical regions of the world, so to release 20 mosquitoes per person they would have to make tens of billions of male mosquitoes who cannot even fucking breed? Fucking inbred idiots. And someone's paying them...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/05/florida-genetically-modified-mosquitoes-zika