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I'm surprised these reviews don't include the recent history of science funded by the wealthy - eugenics, asylums, lobotomies, thalidomide, and now kids taking psychotropics. That doesn't mean the same will be true of CRISPR but why create test subjects just because you can afford it?



You might want to get educated about the history of psychiatry. Asylums were an amazing upgrade to people being tied up in basements by their families. Medications helped people who otherwise would spend their whole lives in asylums, or simply kill themselves.

Even lobotomies kind of made sense, although thankfully far better treatments were invented at roughly the same time, so they were short-lived.

A nice book on the history of psychiatry: https://www.amazon.com/History-Psychiatry-Era-Asylum-Prozac/...


I'm very familiar, thanks. I didn't say these efforts didn't work in some cases. I pointed out that the early beta testers were the wealthy. That said, minors are still getting psychotropics without their consent and where their lives aren't in any danger (ADHD). Again, a phenomenon driven by wealthy parents.




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