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While some experts decried the paper as unnewsworthy, the majority of threads ticked off the experiment’s flaws: Tiny sample size! Insufficient controls! Weird Crispr delivery! Out of date/inefficient version of Crispr! The list goes on.
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But most scientists, while skeptical of the results, were more disappointed in the way the paper was blown out of proportion…[However,] the authors weren’t just scientists: They were also doctors.
Vinit Majahan, an opthamologist at Stanford and co-author of [the] Crispr paper, says it was in that spirit that he and his collaborators submitted their results to the journal. “I don’t have any money in Crispr, I only have patients,” he says. “The culture and pressures of science right now push people to not share results that aren’t a splashy cure. But in medicine you can’t do that. If you make an observation that’s important enough to share with your community, you’re obligated to do that right away.”
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