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[Don Bowen <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>]

At 8/19/2006, you wrote:
>  As a science
> person, if I have trouble with all of this, the average Joe has no clue
> as to what is really going on, and I suppose it's like they say that
> ignorance is bliss.

Many people do not have the background, education, or desire to understand 
the very complex technical world around them.  This ignorance is exploited 
by those interested only in the fastest way to a buck.  I feel that all the 
religious right's push to insert false science in the schools is making a 
bad situation worse.



Don Bowen              Awl Knotted Up                       KI6DIU
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I am omnivagant.  
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And the next shoe to drop:  http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=8081

"Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns announced late yesterday that U.S. 
commercial supplies of long-grain rice had become inadvertently contaminated 
with a genetically engineered variety not approved for human consumption."

Lynda
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From: "SISU!" <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>


> http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/18/edible.virus.ap/index.html
>
> This is soooo "out there" that I feel like I am reading a sci-fi novel.
>  Using viruses and technology to combat bacteria seems like a good
> thing, but as a food additive???  What happens if or when the virus
> mutates, as viruses like to do, inside our bodies and starts eating the
> good bacteria in our digestive tract?  How does one engineer a virus to
> eat e.coli off meat in a store and not eat the natural e. coli in our
> digestive tracts?