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Steve if you are into genetics, and human gene variance, couple of new papers. In the future everyone might have custom tailored treatment according to what genes they have inherited, not a one size fits all vaccine for mandating all ( sort of like mandating the pseudoscience of bloodletting for all-someting to take into consideration when clinical trials with new mRNA vaccines are used in human's). Current Biology September 26 2022---The contribution of Neaderthal introgression to modern human traits. Patrick F Reilly et al. "recent research into host susceptibility to the host genomics of COVID-19 identified Neaderthal variants contributing to both susceptibility to and protection against COVID-19 in Eurasian populations". Another interesting read on inherited variant genetics, The Selection Landscape and Genetic Legacy of Ancient Eurasians, September 23 2022 Evan K. Iriving-Pease et al...

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As predicted by Robert Heinlein in 1942 with his story "Beyond This Horizon." Heinlein had the world run by geneticists but responsibly, with a control group. In case things went wrong with genetic modification the human race would survive as it always had.

I don't think people care about that anymore - they'll destroy the human race just to see if they can alter genetics the way they want.

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