Salon.com Technology %7C Bio-stupid
Alan Goldstein is a professor with professional understanding of agricultural biotechnology. He writes about his experience with the counter-culture folk demonstrating agains the recent BIO conference in San Francisco. He notes that "the protesters at a San Francisco biotech summit were scientifically illiterate and politically irrelevant." Unfortunately, I fear that they and their like are not politically irrelevant, giving credibility to aberations like the denial of food in Zimbabwe (because it might include GM corn), and unwillingness of the international donor community to fund biotech adequately to meet the needs of poor countries for improved cultivars.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
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