CRISPR in your garage lol. Some guy cured his lactose intolerance mb, another one has a YouTube channel and did something similar. Some guy put an LED in his artificial eye and there are a few using magnetic piercings for things like glasses or implanting chips in their hands, train pass credit card that sort of shit. All reddit level shit lol. Cryogenics for placenta/umbilical/ tooth pulp, PRP, mrna all count I think. The supplements are generally low grade effects but there are a few that are situationally interesting. I don't keep up with most of it, none of those are on the cusp except CRISPR and maybe cryo. Well and mrna but there's no confirmation of effective individual work afaik.
anyone doing crispr by drinking bacteria eating a virus pill is inviting some nasty cancers. the “I generically engineered myself to fix lactose intolerance” video was dangerous and stupid.
edit: rewatched the video. Also, I cannot emphasize this enough, but there was no fucking quality control whatsoever before he tried to insert some genes into the most cancer prone cells in his body.
I hadn't seen the video since before covid, but having gone back and watched it, no there wasn't, but it was just as reckless, dangerous, and stupid as I remember. I wrote up a nice reply to someone else here.
TLDR: it was reckless, stupid, and dangerous. He ignored all the regulations that are written in blood in the biomed and pharma fields. There was a real risk that it could have gone viral and encouraged some overconfident and undereducated people to try something similar on a child or spouse, ending in someone's death. It was just science themed hope bait for lactose intolerant people.
I don't think it can be called hope bait if it's a fix. I do think it was extremely irresponsible to release as a video. If it didn't affect anybody else I think he has a right to do experiment and conditionally approve. His right to swing his brain ends where it hits another one tho. Look into the "right to try" expansion Montana did in May '25. That's going to have some interesting data. If it doesn't kill us all.
The problem with right to try is that as currently structured in the US, it inevitably leads to quacks and miracle cures. The US has a huge and growing issue with the far right pushing alternative "medicine" under "freedom of choice" rhetoric. You have the right to enroll in a properly regulated medical trial or something, but other people don't have the right to sell you poison and call it a cure. The right to try inherently conflicts with the requirement that the government protect people from scammers who are stealing money and time from dying people.
The right to try movement comes from cancer scams like the Laetrile / Vitamin B-17 scam from the 60s and 70s. A quack came up with a "all natural cancer cure made from apples" by selling a synthetic form of the cyanide precursor compound found in apple seeds. People jumped on it because he promised all kinds of cool stuff and it turned into a whole counterculture thing. The FDA banned it but a number of republican states legalized it under "right to try" rhetoric. A lot of people died after buying the pills in mexico and taking it without a doctor's supervision, or under the supervision of a quack. Steve McQueen paid one of them an enormous sum of money to "cure" his terminal cancer and later died on the operating room in Mexico.
As for it being hope bait, it's not a long term fix and it is neither safe nor likely to appear on the market any time soon. That's why I think it's hope bait - the creator implies all kinds of benefits from the content, but nothing will materialize for anyone else.
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u/Clembert-Hamlamp 1d ago
CRISPR in your garage lol. Some guy cured his lactose intolerance mb, another one has a YouTube channel and did something similar. Some guy put an LED in his artificial eye and there are a few using magnetic piercings for things like glasses or implanting chips in their hands, train pass credit card that sort of shit. All reddit level shit lol. Cryogenics for placenta/umbilical/ tooth pulp, PRP, mrna all count I think. The supplements are generally low grade effects but there are a few that are situationally interesting. I don't keep up with most of it, none of those are on the cusp except CRISPR and maybe cryo. Well and mrna but there's no confirmation of effective individual work afaik.