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[unity1001]

Modify an actual creature and release it to the wild where you cannot take anything back - including the freak mutations that the new organism will receive and give due to chance. What could possibly go wrong...

[betwixthewires → unity1001]

You appear to have a very limited understanding of what the article is actually about. I suggest you read the article.

Surely you're aware "freak mutations" occur in nature already? The world isn't a comic book.

[unity1001 → betwixthewires]

I did not comment particularly about this article. I commented on the GMO technology in general.

Freak mutations also occur in nature. It does not happen as fast as how human technology modifies.

[betwixthewires → unity1001]

But then would it be a freak mutation? You're not talking about a human modification, you're talking about a mutation happening in the wild.