As a scientist Urbanshade's experiments on Sebastian make me so fucking mad. Partially because of the ethics sure but mostly because they completely threw out the scientific method?????
Like the purpose of the experiment was to give humans gills right? But then they hit the man with SEA SNAKE and BLUE WHALE DNA like what the fuck???? You want this guy to grow gills so you modify him using creatures that don't have gills??????? At least the mantis shrimp kind of makes sense even though they don't have fish-like gills like the other three gilled candidates. Were they just changing him for fun or something like wtf that completely derails your objective what if potential gill development was stunted by the introduction of non-gilled animal DNA
Which brings me to my other point that I'm So Fucking Mad about: they used the DNA of MULTIPLE CREATURES on ONE TEST SUBJECT???? It's heavily implied that Sebastian was the first (if not one of the first) to go through these tests, but where's the fucking control group???? Why are you using multiple independent factors??????? You should have stuck with ONE creature and ALTERED the dosage and effects over MULTIPLE test subjects to see what worked, and if no results came of it THEN you move on to a different creature. If you put a shitton of things in one guy's body it's impossible to determine what was resulted from what alteration, thus preventing successful experiments from being properly replicated sans side effects because you don't fucking KNOW what caused it to be successful in the first place
And SPEAKING of test subjects there's no implication that they attempted animal testing first before moving on to human subjects????? Like they just discovered DNA alteration and went "whoop de doo let's go fucking crazy" and just starting rewriting people????? That's so fucking stupid. There probably WERE other subjects but they fucking DIED due to gross negligence, which would slow the progress of the experiment AND waste resources. And, you know, killing people is wrong or whatever
Like why didn’t you perfect genome splicing before moving on to human subjects? Throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks is EXTREMELY unprofessional and it's a miracle they got results at all. There's no way Urbanshade could exist irl because stockholders would drop that shit like free taco bell on vine (although I suppose Urbanshade has other methods of making money, so this is a moot point but it still makes me SO FUCKING MAD)
Ok that's it for now there's more problems I have with Urbanshade but this is specifically about my gripes with Sebastian's experiment thank you for coming to my TED talk
