[jmarinez]

The stance of the US government on this issue is completely hypocritical considering that there's drugs advertised on TV just about every weekend which can cause the ultimate side effect: death. Or is it that the pharmaceutical companies have more competent lawyers than the universities which are capable of dealing with avoiding liability with a clearly experimental treatment?

[happybit]

Death is not the ultimate side effect at all. The ultimate side effect I can think of would occur when these genetically modified humans reproduce - a permanently corrupted human genome with unforeseen, potentially species-ending side effects down the line. We don’t know what we don’t know yet.