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Re: biotech unravelled

For an extremely interesting article, check out Unraveling the DNA Myth: The spurious foundation of genetic engineering in February's Harper's Magazine. The author is Barry Commoner, senior scientist at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College, City University of New York, where he is the director of the Critical Genetics Project. Dense reading, but extraordinarily interesting for garden writers on the hazards of genically engineered transgenic plants and the reason for the proliferation of genomic studies over the past 20 years.  
 
The article's last sentences: "The irony, of course, is that the biotechnology industry is based on science that is forty years old and conveniently devoid of more recent results, which show that there are strong reasons to fear the potential consequences of transferring a DNA gene between species. What the public fears is not the experimental science but the fundamentally irrational decision to let it out of the laboratory into the real world before we truly understand it."
 
 
-Yvonne Cunnington
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