• comfy@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours 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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      21 hours ago

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

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      20 hours ago

      Thanks for the information – good to know. I assume that like American law, he couldn’t be punished for something that wasn’t illegal when he did it?

      Regarding the Uyghur comment the other guy made, definitely a bit tasteless but I don’t think it’s that ignorant given the genocide China perpetrated against them.

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        14 minutes ago

        What he did was illegal. Even without specific laws about genetic modification or cloning, he did perform experiments with babies without the necessity approvals from ethics and safety, without informed consent from the parents and likely misusing funds allocated to other research.

        3 years is still to short.

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      14 hours ago

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