<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # Editing a patient's blood stem cells to treat... > Editing a patient's blood stem cells to treat genetic disease is not the same proposition as engineering hereditary traits into future children. If ‘CRISPR’ is the only word you know in that sentence, you are not ready for the argument. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “Editing a patient's blood stem cells to treat genetic disease is not the same proposition as engineering hereditary traits into future children. If ‘CRISPR’ is the only word you know in that sentence, you are not ready for the argument.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-editing-patients-blood-sentence-ready-argument ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->