Rising temperatures are more likely a complimentary as opposed to a contradictory factor. It's entirely plausible that our of near a billion mosquitoes that were released there would be genetic variation which would allow them to reproduce. As we've learned with covid, it's very hard to predict how these things evolve.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, and covid probably came from a wet market.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

If there's one thing the COVID pandemic taught us, it's that people are no longer afraid to be dumb in public.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

As always, correlation is not causation. Having a plausible hypothesis means nothing without evidence supporting its predictions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Gathering evidence starts with having a hypothesis.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm a little dumb. Can you help me explain what's going on here?

They released a bunch of genetically modified mosquitoes, that sabotage reproduction and decrease the mosquito population.

About 3 years later, malaria was found in the same area as the decreased mosquito population.

Are you suggesting that they genetically modified the mosquitoes to have malaria?That's not how malaria works. Are you suggesting that they were just releasing malaria mosquitoes? Then why would they draw so much attention to themselves?

Now that we're finding malaria in that area, shouldn't we be trying to control the mosquito population and be glad that they have been suppressing it?

What am I missing here?