You’re on the right track. It’s long been established that non human animals cannot consent to sex because of the power difference between them, even if the non human animals could communicate well.

Synthetic biology as a field is in its infancy. It’s coming along fast and the possibilities are absurdly endless, but it’s hard to overstate how complex of a problem this really is.

The idea that it’ll magically outcompete the rest of your extremely diverse, hyper complex, and largely beneficial mouth biome alone with just one treatment and no maintenance immediately shows it as a scam. We aren’t there yet.

I mean, the clear answer is because it’s not going to work. We all know that but I think it’s worth spelling out.

If they thought they could actually make it work they wouldn’t need to do any of this. They’d sell it to p&g and retire instantly.

Ahh okay. Yeah ive heard of that behavior to since extent, abuse of open source in various ways. Thanks for the read!

Do you have more to read about the weaponization of open source? First I’m hearing of this

And an important note is that… For decades we have had paper trails fairly locked down given enough incentive. The technology isn’t the problem with performing audits.