tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251777016037497783.post1715528193143166995..comments2023-12-14T20:02:51.470-06:00Comments on The Heavy Anglophile Orthodox: Five tips for pro-GMO types: how not to sound like a douchebagMatthew Franklin Cooperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15233216128641267240noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251777016037497783.post-32390279496801036622013-09-12T09:47:09.408-05:002013-09-12T09:47:09.408-05:00Well, to be fair to the scientists, I think they a...Well, to be fair to the scientists, I think they are being intellectually honest about the potential and risks of GM. But one can be fully intellectually honest and still be completely unwise in how one directs that honesty - think about the scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, for example. Nuclear fission is a very worthy technology, but in the hands of irresponsible and belligerent nation states it spawned death on a mass scale and a decades-long technological nightmare.<br /><br />One might even say that this is one reason why we need to temper scientific advance with advances in ethics and a rediscovery of the classical virtues! :P<br /><br />- MAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4251777016037497783.post-74548146196346077862013-09-11T15:44:19.153-05:002013-09-11T15:44:19.153-05:00Great post. It always bothers me when scientists d...Great post. It always bothers me when scientists defend corporations like Monsanto given how they will often privately complain about how much they hate being lorded over by MBAs and how the corporations force them to sign away the rights to their discoveries in order to obtain employment. Yet, they will defend Monsanto thinking their opponents are always primitivists or followers of Lysenkoism or some other caricature. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com