• Railcar8095@lemm.ee
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    16 days ago

    Is nobody concerned that illegal experiments on babies only gets you 3 years?

    Maybe they were Uyghurs so it was classified as “property damage” in Chinese law.

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      16 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He_Jiankui_affair

      Laws were changed after this incident:

      In 2020, the National People’s Congress of China passed Civil Code and an amendment to Criminal Law that prohibit human gene editing and cloning with no exceptions

      So, in case you actually meant that weird ignorant remark you made about Uyghurs, the answer is no and no.

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        16 days ago

        Lemmitors downvoting you because actually learning about the case conflicts with their “cHiNa BaD” circlejerk.

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        16 days ago

        Oh shit someone tell the fascist scum liberal toads that its actually blue on blue, this guy was working for a honky kong universty!!!

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        16 days ago

        It was a joke… You don’t get to jail for experimenting with slaves in China.

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      16 days ago

      Dang, you can really just pull shit straight out of your ass and people will believe it.

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      16 days ago

      Depends how successful the experiment is (and probably on what the goal is as well).

      If he’d been testing the effects of grass vs grain feed on human fat marbling, I’d imagine the sentence would have been a little more severe

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      16 days ago

      And in what context medical experiments should be allowed on babies ?

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        16 days ago

        A lot of contexts? Like the development depending on formula vs mother’s milk? Experimenting doesn’t need to mean vivisection or injecting unregulated drugs, but if you need to do the experiments illegally, I’m not sure it was something “safe”

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      15 days ago

      “Illegal experiments on babies” is a user-provided note, and is not really an accurate label. For one thing, no experiments were done on babies.

      Another thing – unlike “murder,” there is a gradient of what constitutes an “illegal experiment.” The phrase “illegal experiments on babies” sounds terrible, but if you imagine a volume dial on this crime, one could lower it until one finds the minimum violation possible which could technically be described as an “illegal experiment” – for instance, flicking a baby with your index finger to check its reflexes. So it should not be of any surprise that there are such things as “illegal experiments” which are so mild as to warrant just 3 years in prison.

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        The report confirmed that He had recruited eight couples to participate in his experiment, resulting in two pregnancies, one of which gave birth to the gene- edited twin girls in November 2018. The babies are now under medical supervision. The report further said He had made forged ethical review papers in order to enlist volunteers for the procedure, and had raised his Own funds deliberately evading oversight, and organized a team that included some overseas members to carry out the illegal project.

        I guess it’s right that there was no experiment in babies, the babies were the experiments themselves.

        It would have taken much less time to read about the topic than to make that nonsense response.