Over the past 100 years, and much more so in the past 40 years, medical science has been able to save an increasing number of babies (and mothers) being born that would have not survived if they had been born at any other time in human history. Is this having an impact on the human gene pool?

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?

  • Cold Hotman@nrsk.no
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    2 years ago

    I’m not sure but Is there any genuine gocus in say, preventing those diseases in the first place than just contain them indefinitely?

    Well, that’s a whole different discussion from the question you started with…