[Terr_]

> The paper had an enthusiastic reception. “These promising results might pave the way for the development of an effective clinical treatment,” Kevin Bender, a neuroscientist at UC San Francisco, wrote in an accompanying commentary. At the time, Bender had no idea that a girl had received it and was already dead. Meanwhile, Chinese state media, CCTV, called the work “the first ray of hope” for “countless families suffering such diseases.”

Oof, there's something deeply unjust about that, a kind of "adding insult to fatality."

People celebrating that a new treatment will save children and give hope... with no acknowledgement that it was just tried and cost you both.

[streetfighter64]

Sounds extremely similar to the first victims of Macchiarini. He and his entourage were writing and publishing success stories about his experiments when the victims had already died.

[drekipus]

"Millions of deaths don't matter if we can save just one." is an increasingly common take.

[cucumber3732842]

If you really want people to fall for the like you put fractional life on one side of the equation and whole numbers of life on the other "millions of people ought to toil for untold millions of man hours totaling to hundreds of lifetimes to save a few lives" and all that.

[Departed7405]

Source ?

[drekipus]

Israel

[throw098422]

There haven’t been “millions of deaths” in Israeli conflicts, even if you combine all sides since the start of its existence.

You are just looking to derail yet another unrelated conversation into a Middle-East flamewar.

This happens often on threads that are negative about China or Russia.