Skorian said:
Another branch that gets me worked up is the whole genetically modifiying food. Which according to commercials works, but if you actually research what the common farmer thinks doesn't. Farmers try some of these new modern marvels and have all sorts of hellish nightmares that happen to them. What science would promote the use of crops that reduces crop species down to very small numbers? Resulting in total devistation of crops when something attacks them. Because there is very poor genetic diversity. I mean doh. How hard is it to listen to farmers who go "hey fools". Your new drought resistent crops you sold us are "less" drought resistent then our old plants. This doesn't even get into the fact that these foods make a small number of people exteamly sick.
Now in Hawii they have test plots of GMO's that have had common pharmacutical drugs implanted into common crops. The idea is making these drugs easier to mass produce. But really. This is like fitting mice with a gene that randomly explodes like dynamit from time to time. No one would have anywhere to live. There is absolutly no way to control what will happen. Reminds me of the movie "Jarasic Park". These are supposed to be some of the brightest people and yet they would effectively just nuke the whole planet? I mean how stupid are they? Putting potent chemicals into plants is a terrible idea. It's a small wonder that bee's might go extinct in the next few years considering how dumb some people are. Sorry, I refuse to help hand pollinate a third of our total food supply. Monstanto is so greedy and stupid it really isn't even funny. I swear in the next few decades we are all gonna suddenly just starve.
*sigh*
Ok... *deep breath*
I believe in genetic modification. I believe in that future.
I want to make it happen, to do that myself.
So... when I'm working on human cloning to cure genetic diseases and to provide perfectly matched transplants, go ahead and protest, go ahead and blow up cars (not mine please), go ahead and riot in the street, but stay out of my reserved "Dr. Qui" parking spot. And leave my patients alone.
*braces self for anti-human cloning rant*