The information about how you would do a gene drive seems to be public information. CRISPR is public information. You don’t need a prestigious Western academic. The black market finds doctors who are willing to do all sorts of things like transplanting organs without IRB approval. If you go to Africa, I would be very surprised if you couldn’t bribe any local biologist into doing the experiment in a way where they wouldn’t take public credit for it.
The information about how you would do a gene drive seems to be public information. CRISPR is public information. You don’t need a prestigious Western academic. The black market finds doctors who are willing to do all sorts of things like transplanting organs without IRB approval. If you go to Africa, I would be very surprised if you couldn’t bribe any local biologist into doing the experiment in a way where they wouldn’t take public credit for it.