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Disputed

I've tagged this article as disputed, as it seems to be generalizing Kurzweil's futurist theories to be broadly accepted science. Sentences like "It will eventually become possible to have extremely effective and extremely inexpensive treatments for AIDS that will eliminate the DNA errors that are causing the disease through nanomedicine" are presenting as fact something that is highly speculative. Similarly, "Even death is caused by a long line of DNA errors that are never corrected over a very long period of time" is blatantly false, as death can be caused by such non-genetic causes as being run over by a bus, and even in death from disease or "old age," there are many identified causes that do not involve "DNA errors," not to mention that much is still unknown about such issues. Honestly, I'm not really even certain this article should exist at all (per WP:NOTCRYSTAL and shouldn't just be a redirect to mutation. Any relevant content can be merged there or into The Singularity Is Near. Zachlipton (talk) 08:57, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I made a couple of steps to make the article less speculative. GVnayR (talk) 15:51, 6 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

What is this article about?

Is this article actually about DNA errors, or does it assume we know what a DNA error is and then introduce some fantastical ways of correcting this "problem"?

Please would somebody write a proper Wikipedia-style article on DNA errors, describing different types of errors that may occur, how they occur and how they are different from other types of gene mutation. 90.216.106.137 (talk) 00:14, 20 July 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes please. I came here from the Mutation article, expecting to find a scientific explanation. 94.198.120.51 (talk) 20:57, 6 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Information is irrelevant

This article gives information about possible treatments/solutions to DNA errors. It gives insufficient information regarding the main topic, "DNA error". This article is best rewritten. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 112.135.93.224 (talk) 13:13, 10 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted Page Forward

Educational pages on MCB should not redirect to speculative works about the future of the field. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.248.228.194 (talk) 08:48, 20 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Redirecting to Mutation for now

I reverted the redirection to The Singularity Is Near. What does DNA errors caused by replication have to do with The Singularity Is Near? If you examine the incoming links, you will see that every parent article expects this article to explain the types of DNA errors that result from a bad replication.

Since the article before redirection had only about 10% resemblance to DNA errors (but instead talked about DNA repairs), I am going to redirect this article to Mutation. Mutation is a parent topic, I know. But unless someone is willing to sit down and write this article anew, that is the best that we can do at this time. Fred Hsu (talk) 01:41, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]