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Comment Re:Identity "theft" (Score 2) 154

yeah, but, no.

This argument is flawed. In the case of copying stuff on the internet, you just deny a business some hypothetical sales.

In the case of identity theft, a life got screwed over. It's not the same at all.

Not that I'm on the side of "a copy is not stealing". I just wanted to say that this particular comparison isn't correct.

Comment Re:Science for the sake of science can be dangerou (Score 3, Informative) 70

A retrovirus is made to "attack" the DNA of a cell. A neuron is not made for that, it can't inject new DNA to other cells.

Plus, a neuron don't divide as other cells do. Well, it happen for specific type of neuron, but it mostly stem cells. So most of them don't divide, and if they do, they will divide as the same cell, with the same DNA markers.

You should try real science, instead of trying to scares people with random Hollywood scenarios.

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