It would be comforting to believe that the production of synthetic bacteria in the laboratory is going to accelerate cures for disease, replacement body parts and sympathetic engagement with nature.\u00a0 But that is not happening.\u00a0 The positive hopes are the marketing headline.<\/p>\n
The reality, proven by the track record of Venter and his hairy faced cohorts as well as other biochemical-industrialists<\/a>, is that they are simply there for the money.\u00a0 They want to control the market for genetic engineering.\u00a0 They want to patent life.\u00a0 That should be totally unacceptable to you.\u00a0 But it isn’t, because you think they are good people, working for the common good.\u00a0 What they are really doing is taking control of you – not your choices, but your biology.\u00a0 And we are allowing it to happen.\u00a0 Scientists will calmly say that there are issues and their controls are damaging.\u00a0 As a banker I can be a bit more emotional, and fearful.\u00a0 Precaution before permissiveness should be humanity’s approach.<\/p>\n BBC: Synthetic life patents ‘damaging’<\/a><\/p>\n BBC: Scientists make ‘artificial life’<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It would be comforting to believe that the production of synthetic bacteria in the laboratory is going to accelerate cures for disease, replacement body parts and sympathetic engagement with nature.\u00a0 But that is not happening.\u00a0 The positive hopes are the marketing headline. The reality, proven by the track record of Venter and his hairy faced …
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