From the point of view of someone who wants to use CRISPR in more mainstream research, that&#x27;s not the worst that can happen.  Worse would be that someone experiments on themself and the result is so horrifying that it generates a movement to ban CRISPR or gene therapies in general, and that that movement is successful, so your research career is over — along with the possible benefits of gene therapies to humanity, condemning, for example, hundreds of thousands of children to horrible deaths each year from curable genetic illnesses.