Ben Bradford

Then we've got a problem.

Yeah.

And so that is the main argument against doing this thing, this technology, which is basically called an engineered gene drive.

And so there are people who think we should, you know, pack this up, seal it away, never do it.

It gets really good at being passed through its offspring.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's sort of the debate.

But of course, the stakes are...

Do you get rid of malaria?

Do you get rid of dengue fever?

And so when I talked to Kevin, the person who kind of figured out, hey, we could do this, his biggest concern is that an accidental untested release of, let's say, Jerry.

poisons the whole discourse around this in any attempt to do it.

And you can hear in our episode that pressure that Kevin feels because of that.

And so it does.

It creates all of these hurdles, all these kind of like little puzzles that you need to solve to be able to do that.

You know, we need to test our mosquitoes like Jerry to make sure he doesn't cause unintended consequences.

Right.

You have to do this sort of, like, field test, your Jurassic Park.

But how do you do the Jurassic Park without risking those consequences where someone's going to steal him or he's going to get out?