University name checks out

The issue is that this guy just kind of did it without going through any of the normal check steps to make sure he was doing it right or there wouldn’t be any unexpected consequences

There’s a reason we have ethical standards when conducting experiments on living creatures. I don’t really feel like that needs to be explained.

As for yourself self driving car example, well, unfortunately Tesla has skipped a lot of stages and just threw their shit on the road and people have died because of it. So not exactly the best example. You can do things incrementally and safely and achieve the results you want. It just cost money and time. And when lives are at stake I don’t feel like we should be pennypinching.

It’s also extra fucked that he essentially experimented on what are now small children’s lives without any concern that it might severely impact them in unforeseen ways, for the rest of their existence. And all for questionable gain because he apparently didn’t really achieve the objective of making them immune to HIV.

… You’re sweeping thousands of years of technology being considered “playing God” under the rug like that’s not a thing. Even though in this case, the phrase couldn’t get closer to being accurate.