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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 31 July 2015 11:30:20PM *  0 points [-]

The proposal is not releasing dud males. The proposal is to use genetic drive, and the post included a link for people who have never heard of it.

Most mosquito populations are very specific in what hosts they parasitize, so removing humans from the list is not an option. Humans might be the only host!