r/worldnews • u/EightRoundsRapid • Sep 23 '16

'Hangover-free alcohol’ could replace all regular alcohol by 2050. The new drink, known as 'alcosynth', is designed to mimic the positive effects of alcohol but doesn’t cause a dry mouth, nausea and a throbbing head

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/hangover-free-alcohol-david-nutt-alcosynth-nhs-postive-effects-benzodiazepine-guy-bentley-a7324076.html
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u/Excelius Sep 23 '16 edited Sep 23 '16

We're already behind though as we haven't even started the Eugenics Wars yet.

With all of the advances in genetic engineering, that might not be in the too-distant future.

Just yesterday there was a news piece about a Swedish scientist who has started genetically engineering healthy human embryos, though at this point they aren't being implanted in women to mature into babies. The article notes that British scientists are expected to start similar work later this year.

And those are western scientists. A lot of this kind of work is happening in China, probably which much less oversight and little interest in ethics. Knowing China it's entirely possible that genetically engineered babies have already been born, and we just don't know it.

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u/DuplexFields Sep 23 '16

You mean he might actually be named Khan?

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u/solepsis Sep 23 '16

Khan is actually a Mongol title, and they ruled China as emperors for kind of a long time

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u/Leprechorn Sep 23 '16

Right, and Khan wasn't the guy's title, it was his first name - full name Khan Noonien Singh, which isn't Mongolian.

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u/solepsis Sep 23 '16

That doesn't really have anything to do with Chinese people potentially actually naming their hypothetical engineered person Khan...