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Is modern medicine affecting the human gene pool? (www.thenakedscientists.com)
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What's your opinion on this? Is curing hereditary diseases on a genetic level a scientific possibility? If so, why there's a focus on supressing those diseases or their symptoms?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 years ago

I just think we shouldn't have got to a point where we're infested with many diseases that could've vanished with natural selection. Leaving everyone to die or worse to exterminate them is absurd and ineffective, we gotta first fix the way healthcare and medicine should treat the ill.