Hold on a second there on that Bt corn study. That study has been pretty much dismissed as bogus science. The most important mistake that the experimenters made was providing only Bt corn pollen covored food for the experimental group. The control group was NOT provided with pollen covoered food from regular corn. As it turns out, the catipillars naturally avoid the pollen covored plants because the pollen is naturally harmful to them.
Just because some big-eared, somewhat vapid member of the British royalty references a study does not mean that you should too.
threemae, apparently I didn’t make myself clear. These are examples that were not thought of before the GM seeds were for sale. I was trying to give examples of studies done that were not thought of by the manufacturer. I was trying to point out that no matter how many scenarios that jb tried to think of, something surprising would come from his glowing spider or his laughing rattlesnake.
edwino said:
I would be shocked to find out that 10% of Nature’s “attempts” actually lead to increase in fitness: I have always understood that nature’s secrret lies not in her gracefulness, but rather her long-term funding and vast labratory.