00:00Why it was seen as being superficially credible, at least, was that last year in July, two
00:06bioethicists at Western Michigan University published an article in the journal Bioethics
00:12titled Beneficial Blood Sucking.
00:14The paper is basically a thought experiment and was arguing that if we all agree that
00:19eating meat is morally wrong, and it would be technically possible to gene edit ticks
00:23to then spread alpha-gal syndrome more efficiently, there's at least a kind of
00:29logical case that doing so would be morally obligatory.
00:33Western Michigan University said that this is an academic philosophy and not a policy proposal
00:38and that no such work is being undertaken, but obviously the fact, the mere fact that
00:42there is a paper that they've published that talks about possibly doing this has meant that
00:46it's spread far and wide, but there is no evidence of engineered ticks, no evidence of deliberate
00:53release, and the alpha-gal syndrome has been documented in medical literature for at least
00:5815 years.
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