First, since the situation has never happened before, shouldn’t the researchers of the University of Pennsylvania use test …show more content…
Then, isn’t it enough reason to actually not go through with the experiment? Obviously, the success rate has gone lower, and with no paradigm case to guide this experiment, then isn’t it ethically wrong to go through with the experiment? They are injecting a modified virus directly into the bloodstream of the liver of a human being, with the liver’s weakened state, how are they so sure that it can fight off the possible effects of the modified virus other than to release the genetic material Jesse needs? A grave miscalculation on the researchers’ part if they had not thought of that as a possibility. That is exactly why they should’ve used test organisms first before going through with the human experiment, if they had enough data and research on the same case then they may have formulated a new hypothesis and solution to the problem and they would have had their conscience clean knowing that they did everything to make it right with enough data and