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| Klaus Wiegand |
 Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2003 1:23 pm |
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"Bacteria and Viruses have always formed a
most effective biological underground. The
Guerilla warfare through which they act on
higher forms of life is only imperfectly
understood. By adding to this arsenal
freakish forms of life - prokaryotes
propagating eukaryotic genes - we shall be
throwing a veil of uncertainties over the
life of coming generations. Have we the right
to counteract, irreversibly, the evolutionary
wisdom of millions of years, in order to
satisfy the ambition and curiosity of a few
scientists? This world is given to us on
loan. We come and we go; and after a time we
leave earth and air and water to others who
come after us. My generation, or perhaps the
one preceding mine, has been the first to
engage, under the leadership of the exact
sciences, in a destructive colonial warfare
against nature. The future will curse us for
it."
- End of his letter to: Science 192: 938 -
940. on "The dangers of Genetic meddling"
Dr Erwin Chargaff |
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