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>Engineering the Extinction of 40 Species of Mosquitoes

Hmm, to me it sounds like:

Screw science (which takes time), let's apply half-learned stuff in real life instead and see what sticks.

E.g let's apply what little we know to extinguish mosquitoes we don't like, despite not fully knowning the ecological consequences of our actions. Hopefully we won't have to deal with the mess (or there won't be a mess).

After all we did something similar before. If you do something once and it turned out OK, then even if you don't understand it, it will always come out OK in any other context, right?



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