What I thought would be an easy answer to a covid related question was anything but and it trailed debris behind it. What does the m in mRNA mean? My mouth was getting engaged but a senior moment interrupted, words failed me and I did a search. Messenger; we knew that but then the question became a two parter.
What exactly does mRNA do?
I don’t know exactly but https://theconversation.com/messenger-rna-how-it-works-in-nature-and-in-making-vaccines-166975 does, they just don’t sound very scientific when they get to the part in their explanation about synthetic mRNA. For instance,
When in vitro transcribed mRNA is introduced into a cell, it is ‘read’ by the cell’s protein production machinery in a similar manner to how natural mRNA functions. In principle, the process can be used to generate synthetic mRNA that codes for any protein of interest.
Similar manner? Does that mean now they can tell each other in the lab, ‘close enough for scientific work’?
And what’s up with ‘In principle’? How about works exactly like? or identical to the real thing? It’s not like they’re working with a strong rate of success behind them, ya know? They ought to at least try to sound more believable, right?
And that protein of interest remark… that don’t sound like the people’s interest they’re talking about.
Then I seen this: https://theconversation.com/did-he-jiankui-make-people-better-documentary-spurs-a-new-look-at-the-case-of-the-first-gene-edited-babies-196714
Remember He? He’s out of jail now and looking for work and he’s already got a company slogan. Make people better.
Make people better??? Where’d He get that? The Rockefeller Foundation? Build back better, make people better! Sounds like a chant we’ll soon be learning to tighten up our social something score with in the Community Park before they ladle out the fish head soup.
No, it’s even weirder. Nobel Prize-winning geneticist James Watson gave it to him.
Now we enter the macabre.
One of the recent posts here was https://www.bucksafa11.org/2022/12/14/the-way-of-the-world/ that included a list of issues that Plato laid out more than two thousand years ago and are still plagueing humanity including abortion, abolishing families and https://www.herald.co.zw/in-uk-children-belong-to-the-state/
You have any idea where this would fit in our dystopia? https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/worlds-first-artificial-womb-facility-is-a-creepy-glimpse-of-pregnancy-in-future/articleshow/96203552.cms
Doesn’t take much imagination after being subjected to the round of 21st Century presidents we’ve had for it to sound like a cover for transhumanist transition getting into high gear.
You got a better, more healthier idea?