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Sep 30, 2022Liked by 2nd Smartest Guy in the World

100% agree

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All the points in the list are excellent. I picked two for special treatment.

Pharmaceutical ads must be barred from TV, streaming services, social media, and the metaverse, forever.

reply: Pharma add money should be made available to fully publish the cause and effect of this and all prior medical harm campaigns for profit.

All intellectual property protections for pharmaceutical products must be eliminated (just as we made all German patents available for free after World War II).

Not just Phama, but any corporation that is remotely shown to use patent law to impend or stop continued evolution of ideas and technologies. Those patents that form either a financial or technical bottle neck become public property, as in eminent domain.

Finally just because you can doesn't mean you should. We need a robust public forum for ideas that will lead to new technologies or concepts that will do the same. The whole of the population needs to be involved in discussion and debate and not to be afraid to say NO!.

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It bothers me a great deal when Humans??? take credit for something they did not create. CRISPER is a good example

2nd smartest noted: The inventors of CRISPR received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry during a global pandemic caused by CRISPR.

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When infact CRISPER is found in the wild.

CRISPR (/ˈkrɪspər/) (an acronym for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a family of DNA sequences found in the genomes of prokaryotic organisms such as bacteria and archaea.[2] These sequences are derived from DNA fragments of bacteriophages that had previously infected the prokaryote. They are used to detect and destroy DNA from similar bacteriophages during subsequent infections. Hence these sequences play a key role in the antiviral (i.e. anti-phage) defense system of prokaryotes and provide a form of acquired immunity.[2][3][4][5] CRISPR is found in approximately 50% of sequenced bacterial genomes and nearly 90% of sequenced archaea.[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR

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