“Hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists could have conducted this experiment if they had the money and stupidity to do it,” said Stanford professor Henry Greely, author of Crispr People: The Science and Ethics of Editing Humans, a book on the scandal.

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In Crispr People, Greely claims Jiankui wasn’t qualified to practice human germline genome editing, having no expertise in the relevant fields of human reproduction, genetics or genome editing. Invited to comment, Jiankui responded with an expletive and declined to elaborate.