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"It is easier to break an atom than a prejudice" Albert Einstein

I have a scientific background, I am the daughter of rationality and analysis, and for this reason, when I find myself thinking about the ethics of research, I often find myself holding positions similar to those you would expect from a politician on the left.

The topic is delicate, complex and controversial but not be ignored.

We talk about genetic engineering. The applications are many and, unfortunately, in the news are almost always the most alarming or "useless". If you ask me who is reading to tell me what is the first thought that this associate of science, citing the overwhelming majority will answer "Dolly" or "transgenic soy." Leaving aside the discussion of doubtful utility to clone animal organisms, ask yourself how much you know in reality on the subject. You know that the increase in yield obtained by the cultivation of GM crops has fed people who otherwise would die from malnutrition? You know that fighting a disease of the century, diabetes, insulin produced by a GMO? You know that other GMOs can be used for the production of biofuels from agricultural waste products? Did you know that the side of vaccines against pertussis and hepatitis B, already produced through the use of GMOs, are experimenting with GM-made vaccines against AIDS and cancer?

These are just some examples but if you really get an idea of \u200b\u200bwhat it means to GM, do not just think of the tomato with the gene of a modified arctic fish (much vaunted but to strike, but emotionally, for the record, refer it was a wonderful failure that was never released outside of the laboratories where it was "built" and "test").

do not claim that genetic engineering has the answer to all problems of the world much less that all applications are free from risk to human health and the planet, but from there to demonize a scientific discipline with so much potential, I think that there might be a compromise position.

History has taught us to be rightly suspicious of the findings before announcing a technical revolution striking (use of asbestos in building nuclear power herbicide in agriculture to name a few) but I think that the approach the prejudice that many politicians speak of bioengineering, is irresponsible and stupid.

In this post I wanted to use the GMO in a redundant word, repeating it ad nauseam, referring to mind a passage from a book, literary transposition of a play, a topic that is totally different.

I'm talking about "The Vagina Monologues" by Eve Ensler.

If you want to find out why this association in mind, read, inquire, as you should do even before deciding what position to take regarding the topic of discussion that I wanted to introduce.
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