It was a nice promising protocol. The actual outcome was as bad as it could possibly be. It worked briefly and that was it. Then the rebuilt population picked up the foreign genes as well.
This was no one's plan at all.
What this does do is toss this whole biological protocol onto the trash heap. It looks good on paper, but appears easily thwarted by nature.
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GMO mosquito experiment
goes horribly wrong: Insects adapt and overcome, transforming into super
“mutant” mosquitoes that could cause mass death across South America
Tags: bad science, badscience, genetic modification, GMO, mosquitoes, rational, skeptics, weird science
https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-09-18-gmo-mosquito-experiment-goes-horribly-wrong.html
(Natural News)
Remember the two-year experiment to release genetically modified mosquitoes
into the wild to eradicate all the mosquitoes? For years, we were all
lectured by scientists and GMO pushers who insisted that genetically
modifying male mosquitoes to be infertile would cause the termination of
nearly all offspring as females mated with the GMO males. The result,
we were told, would be a mass die-off of the mosquito population at
large, saving human lives by avoiding the catastrophic effects of
mosquito-borne disease.
Science would save us, in other words. And if we didn’t believe the hype, we were labeled “anti-science.”
At first, the experiment seemed to work. For the initial 18 months of
the experiment carried out in Brazil — in which 450,000 genetically
modified male mosquitoes were released into the wild — mosquito
populations plummeted. But then something happened.
As published in the journal Nature, in a study entitled, “Transgenic Aedes aegypti Mosquitoes Transfer Genes into a Natural Population,”
the very same modified genes we were told would never be passed to “in
the wild” mosquito populations has, in fact, done exactly that.
Powered by these new genes (and combined with some behavioral
adaptation explained below), the mosquito population surged back. Even
worse, now the wild populations of mosquitoes in Brazil have these
“mutant” genes which were combined from Cuba and Mexican mosquito
populations, meaning these new gene-enhanced mosquitoes are now a kind
of “super mutant” insect that may be resistant to all sorts of
insecticides.
As the Nature study reveals:
Evidently, rare viable hybrid offspring between the release
strain and the Jacobina population are sufficiently robust to be able to
reproduce in nature. The release strain was developed using a strain
originally from Cuba, then outcrossed to a Mexican population. Thus,
Jacobina Ae. aegypti are now a mix of three populations. It is unclear
how this may affect disease transmission or affect other efforts to
control these dangerous vectors.
Also from the same study:
Our data clearly show that release of the OX513A has led to
significant transfer of its genome (introgression) into the natural
Jacobina population of Ae. aegypti. The degree of introgression is not
trivial. Depending on sample and criterion used to define unambiguous
introgression, from about 10% to 60% of all individuals have some OX513A
genome (Tables 1 and E1).
However, it is clear from the data in Garziera et al.6 that the
effectiveness of the release program began to break down after about 18
months, i.e., the population which had been greatly suppressed rebounded
to nearly pre-release levels.
Also, introgression may introduce other relevant genes such as
for insecticide resistance. The release strain, OX513A, was derived from
a laboratory strain originally from Cuba, then outcrossed to a Mexican
population7. The three populations forming the tri-hybrid population now
in Jacobina (Cuba/Mexico/Brazil) are genetically quite distinct
(Extended Data Fig. E2), very likely resulting in a more robust
population than the pre-release population due to hybrid vigor.
GMO “science” just created a super mutant mosquito population that could kill millions of people across Brazil and South America
To summarize the findings of the study, this mad science GMO
experiment managed to create a super mutant population of mosquitoes
that now carry genes that are potentially tied to enhanced insecticide
resistance, making them harder to kill than ever before.
…[T]he Yale study showed not only that offspring from the
transgenic mosquitoes had reproduced but the population of mosquitoes in
Jacobina is now a mix of their original types plus those from Cuba and
Mexico, likely leading to a more robust population…
The experiment utterly failed to achieve its promised outcome of
wiping out mosquitoes, too. “…[F]emales had begun to avoid mating with
modified males, fueling a rebound in population,” writes Hathaway on
Yale News. In reality, this mad science GMO experiment has resulted in stronger, more adaptive mosquitoes that will likely kill even more humans in South America.
It’s also interesting to note that even among mosquitoes, females
don’t want to mate with weaker males that produce sterile offspring.
Even in insects, in other words, masculinity and virility have
recognized value for the continuation of the species. Yet somehow,
thanks to modern “progressivism,” masculinity is attacked among humans,
and the twisted pop culture keeps trying to feminize all the men into
sterilized transgenders and nullos who are incapable of reproducing.
Mosquitoes, in other words, appear to be smarter than liberals when it
comes to selection of a mate.
We warned about the risks of mad GMO science… and we got banned from every platform
In 2012, we published a warning about the risks associated with self-replicating science experiments
that are released into the wild. In one article, we wrote, “The human
race is gravely threatened by out-of-control science that has already
begun to reveal alarming unintended consequences across our planet.” We
also wrote:
Humanity has reached a tipping point of developing technology so
profound that it can destroy the human race; yet this rise of “science”
has in no way been matched by a rise in consciousness or ethics. Today,
science operates with total disregard for the future of life on Earth,
and it scoffs at the idea of balancing scientific “progress” with
caution, ethics or reasonable safeguards. Unbridled experiments like
GMOs have unleashed self-replicating genetic pollution that now
threatens the integrity of food crops around the world, potentially
threatening the global food supply.
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