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Honestly sounds a lot like he doesn’t regret doing it. He regrets that others are following his example. As for his business it completely sounds like he’s knowingly selling these kits to people who inject themselves but is trying to use the “for educational usage” as a legal cover.

CRISPR has great potential but it’s in everyones best interest if people and companies like this are shut down. Clinical studies take time for a reason. The PR announcements of “we discovered a cure for X” come out when drugs have only been tested in mice and rats. There’s a reason we spend 5-10 Years after that before a viable drug hits the market. No one is interested in slowing down entry to market. But these jackasses aren’t innovating or helping anyone by simply skipping all testing and “crowd sourcing” the clinical trials without any legal or moral responsibility.

Can we stop calling them “biohackers” and just call them careless, fame-hungry morons? I mean give me a break, even his introspection comes in the form of a published interview. This is to sciemce what jumping off a cliff without a parachute is to sports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-experimentation_in_medici... seems like a subtle topic; as the article points out, a number of these experimenters died or were seriously harmed by their experiments, while others were celebrated for their discoveries. (That's not to express an opinion on the value or foolhardiness of some recent self-experiments is.)
Please don’t associate actual scientists making a sacrifice for the greater good with these assholes!