David Suzuki on Experimenting With Life: “No group of experts should be more aware of the hazards of unwarranted claims than geneticists. After all, it was the exuberance of geneticists early in this century that led to the creation of a discipline called eugenics…The grand claims of geneticists led to ‘race purification’ laws and the Holocaust. Today, the leading-edge of genetics is in the field of biotechnology. However, history informs us that though we love technology, there are always costs, and since our knowledge of how nature works is so limited, we cant anticipate how those costs will manifest. We should apply the Precautionary Principle with any new technology, asking whether it is needed and then demanding proof that it is not harmful.”
Posted on: Sat, 13 Dec 2014 04:11:58 +0000
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