SomeoneElseYou don’t have DNA anymore!
ox0rYes i have become a virus, destroyer of cells
You were the Chosen One! It was said that you would destroy the virus, not join them!
Not the Younglings!
Flying SquidI’m pretty sure this is the plot of GATTACA 2.
Huh, TIL that there actually was a sequel (of sorts) in the works, albeit it’s been mothballed now. The original film was so fantastic… reading about the sequel I’m not sure how I feel about the idea. It does (or did) at least have some of the original team involved.
I can live without a sequel. The film stands fine on its own. We don’t have to find out what happens if he makes it back from space.
TomassciPeople like this can't be talked with, since they missed their lessons about what DNA even is.
At this point I'm surprised they acknowledge that DNA even exists.
Semi-Hemi-DemigodAny sufficiently advanced technology is magic. They're using DNA like old timey doctors would use "humours," or a shaman would use "evil spirits."
IHeartBadCodeYeah this is a hard thing to broach on people because the whole DNA, how it is transcribed into mRNA, how that's dealt with inside the ribosomes with tRNA, and so forth. That's a good month worth of ninth grade science. That's a month's worth of Monday through Friday, one hour each day, for one month.
And even then, there's a bit of background that works into all of that. Like the various organelles and what their purpose is inside the cells. The various parts of the human immune system and how they work together to fight infections. So there's a lot of people who have a very flawed understanding of ninth grade science and you cannot just simply overcome that lack of knowledge in a single conversation. It's not a single conversation kind of knowledge, it's something that a good part of one's secondary education is devoted to and if you missed it then, it's really hard to go back and regain it.
The wild ramblings that sprung from this pandemic really shows that the education system has failed a lot of people. The why it has failed so spectacularly is a much, much bigger conversation. But all of this craziness that has been created in the wake of the pandemic is a complete failure of very basic science. And I think it's a sobering moment for all of us to soak in.
If you could trust they took you at your word you could give a decent explanation of RNA transcription in a few minutes with something like:
"DNA has two copies of all the instructions for making the proteins a cell needs, but it's locked inside the nucleus at the center. Thankfully there's something that makes a new copy, which is sent out of the nucleus to tell other parts what to do. It's like making a copy of a recipe in a cookbook and mailing it to someone so they know how to make it."
You don't need a month of ninth grade science to grok that, you just need to be open to learning new information.
It has been a couple of years since the worst of the COVID pandemic happened.
Shouldn’t there be literally millions upon millions of people dropping dead from the vaccines by now if the anti-vaxx predictions were even remotely accurate??
I’d love to see some news story about this. Go back and dig up all the outlandish claims these morons said would happen and then follow that up with reality. I know no reporter would touch this story because that might involve doing some actual work and fact-checking of people. Can’t have that.