This plan worked out about as well as could be expected
This plan worked out about as well as could be expected
I'm a little dumb. Can you help me explain what's going on here?
They released a bunch of genetically modified mosquitoes, that sabotage reproduction and decrease the mosquito population.
About 3 years later, malaria was found in the same area as the decreased mosquito population.
Are you suggesting that they genetically modified the mosquitoes to have malaria?That's not how malaria works. Are you suggesting that they were just releasing malaria mosquitoes? Then why would they draw so much attention to themselves?
Now that we're finding malaria in that area, shouldn't we be trying to control the mosquito population and be glad that they have been suppressing it?
What am I missing here?
2I'm suggesting that it's entirely possible that the sterilization process for the mosquitoes they released wasn't foolproof, and rather than decreasing the population they ended up doing the opposite.
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As always, correlation is not causation. Having a plausible hypothesis means nothing without evidence supporting its predictions.
1Gathering evidence starts with having a hypothesis.
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There’s nothing that links the two. The second article even says it’s probably from rising temperatures
0Yeah, and covid probably came from a wet market.
0If there's one thing the COVID pandemic taught us, it's that people are no longer afraid to be dumb in public.
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Rising temperatures are more likely a complimentary as opposed to a contradictory factor. It's entirely plausible that our of near a billion mosquitoes that were released there would be genetic variation which would allow them to reproduce. As we've learned with covid, it's very hard to predict how these things evolve.
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