User: shieldoftribe

Re:...for animals as well (but impractical)

On: Very Tiny Motor: Nano-level

This explanation of the human's function in the Matrix was just a comment made by Laurence Fishburne's character to Keanu Reeves'.

He could just have been dumb/wrong/stupid....

Guess again...

On: Gene Leakage

Dunno about the US, but Mosanto (What do you want to plant today?) have fields of GM crops, outdoors, in the UK.

That's not a controlled experiment.

Huh?

On: Gene Leakage

I think you miss the point of the penicillin reference. He's using it as an analogy. 'Science' thought penicillin was the wonder drug, and used it indecriminately. Now it's useless against many types of bacteria, which have evolved to be resistant.

The point he's making is that GM could be the same. We might think it's safe now, but we don't know. He just wants a bit of caution.

If he thinks he is not doing it whith his brain

On: Gene Leakage

That isn't what he's saying. He's saying that we don't know how GM will affect ecosystems, and it's too early to experiment in uncontrolled conditions. No FUD, just common sense, neh?

Nope....

On: Gene Leakage

That was some guy at Edinburgh. Steve Jones is still, afaik, Professor of Genetics at University College, London.