Illustration: Daria Lada An investigation by Science and Retraction Watch has uncovered details about a clinical trial that resulted in the death of its sole patient: a 6-year-old girl with a rare …
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Only slightly related, but I watched the DS9 episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume (S05 E15) recently.
Fantastic episode on the topic of gene therapy on humans. Kind of a heavy episode compared to the shows normal tone, very emotional.
In the episode,
Spoilers
it comes out that Bashir’s parents took him as a child to have illegal gene therapy performed on him. They took him because he had a learning disability. The way the episode describes how he felt being taken to a doctor for the procedure while being incapable of understanding what was going on, I saw a similarity in what was described in the article.
Only thing is it ends on a much better note than what happened here.
Only slightly related, but I watched the DS9 episode Doctor Bashir, I Presume (S05 E15) recently.
Fantastic episode on the topic of gene therapy on humans. Kind of a heavy episode compared to the shows normal tone, very emotional.
In the episode,
Spoilers
it comes out that Bashir’s parents took him as a child to have illegal gene therapy performed on him. They took him because he had a learning disability. The way the episode describes how he felt being taken to a doctor for the procedure while being incapable of understanding what was going on, I saw a similarity in what was described in the article.
Only thing is it ends on a much better note than what happened here.