On Thursday, May 3, 2012 8:57:10 PM UTC-4, Bryan Bishop wrote:
CRAIG VENTER: Well, they're not actually. There's not been one
single accident from molecular biology in almost four decades.
I think this is one of those points that often gets lost in debates about genetic engineering, i.e. the fact that biologists have been practicing it for decades with extraordinary safety. I'm not sure anyone ever been killed by a GMO?
Is public fear rooted in the idea that synthetic biology is categorically different from genetic engineering (i.e. what we've been doing for decades already)?
There are many other technologies that we use on a daily basis that are comparatively lethal (automobiles, pharmaceuticals, etc) and generally accepted.
Jason
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