Prosthetic Conscience

Bio-stupid

Not new, but new to me, this article sums up a lot of how I feel about both biotech and nuclear, two fields of science with a lot to contribute to the world, and which are both opposed tooth-and-nail by my dearest comrades. A couple of quotes:

The protesters at a San Francisco biotech summit were scientifically illiterate and politically irrelevant. But they were also right.

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And yet I can’t shake that spooky feeling that I have been clubbed with a hard and dangerous reality deceptively wrapped inside a gigantic wad of fuzzy thinking. I have attempted to decipher a congregation who despises globalization but believes in the global village. I have heard about the evils of NAFTA and the people’s intrinsic right to food sovereignty. I interviewed a biofeminist who knows in her heart that vitamins are an insidious plot by the new military-industrial complex. As I walk down Franklin towards the ocean, a concept is focusing through the lens of memory. And I think, none of this garble, even the most fractured of these fairy tales can erase the reality that the green revolution was a complete hoax and that forcing genetically engineered food down the throats of unsuspecting hungry people is evil.

Good intuitions, but no knowledge to give them strength.

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