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Unleash GMO Ticks to Spread Meat Allergies? Idiocy From The Ivory Tower
24 minutes Posted Oct 21, 2025 at 3:43 pm.
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We should genetically engineer ticks and release them into the environment, so they can infect people with a meat allergy. That's a real—and thoroughly wicked—proposal from two bioethicists at Western Michigan University. Join us as we dissect possibly the dumbest idea the academy has ever produced.