It is, of course, tragic that one of the early GT trials went wrong. But something is bound to go wrong when new therapies are explored. It's a shame that so many companies backed out instead of pressing on. I think one day the opponents of GT will be like an episode of Futurama :
MOM: Ah, there you are, Leela. I just wanted to thank you for helping me engineer the perfect bean. You've made me a very richer woman.
LEELA: What?! I would never help you commit your perverted crimes against nature! My marigolds!
MOM: Thanks to that DNA sample you generously donated while locked in my tower, my beanstalks now have suction cups to keep them from collapsing.
LEELA: That's horrible!
MOM: Is it? Now the world's starving masses have a cheap, abundant source of nutrition. But not too cheap. I'll take the cash, and you can have the credit.
LEELA: I don't want the credit! Genetic engineering is wrong!
MOM: Oh, really? Tell that to your old friend, the giant.
LEELA: [Screams] Where is he?! Oh, God, he's invisible now!
STAN: Fee-fi, hi. [Chuckles] I'm Stan.
LEELA: Ah-ha! You see? I freed him from your infernal contraption and he returned to normal.
STAN: On the contrary, I suffer from hereditary Gigantism. Or I did, until Mom cured me of my awful disease using genetic engineering. That's why she had me hooked up in her lab. Oh, well, congratulations. You look great.
LEELA: But, even if genetic engineering feeds the hungry, and cures some giant guy! That doesn't make it right. We have no idea what the long term effects will be. And once that genie is out of the bottle...
MOM: I can cure you too.
LEELA: Okay, I'm in.
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