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Concerns Raised about Genetically Engineered Mosquitoes
New York Times ^ | Oct 30, 2011 | Andrew Pollack

Posted on 10/31/2011 2:12:46 PM PDT by dubyagee

Researchers on Sunday reported initial signs of success from the first release into the environment of mosquitoes engineered to pass a lethal gene to their offspring, killing them before they reach adulthood.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: genetics; insects; science
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1 posted on 10/31/2011 2:12:53 PM PDT by dubyagee
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To: dubyagee

I wish they would stop messing with Mother Nature!


2 posted on 10/31/2011 2:15:25 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy ( For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: dubyagee

I hate Mosquitoes, but that is one scary concept.


3 posted on 10/31/2011 2:15:25 PM PDT by mad puppy (Obama Care is a 'Giffen Good'.)
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To: dubyagee

I wish they would stop messing with Mother Nature!


4 posted on 10/31/2011 2:15:42 PM PDT by Saundra Duffy ( For victory & freedom!!!)
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To: dubyagee

Playing God and they’re concerned. Duh.


5 posted on 10/31/2011 2:15:49 PM PDT by dubyagee ("I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.")
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To: dubyagee

What could possibly go wrong?/S


6 posted on 10/31/2011 2:16:39 PM PDT by 9422WMR
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To: dubyagee



7 posted on 10/31/2011 2:17:58 PM PDT by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis (Want to make $$$? It's easy! Pimp your blog for hits on Free Republic!)
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To: dubyagee

I wonder if I can use my pup’s Frontline on my kids? I think that works for Mosquitos.


8 posted on 10/31/2011 2:19:54 PM PDT by netmilsmom (Happiness is a choice)
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To: killermosquito

Ping!

Looks like some folks are out to get your kind. ;^)


9 posted on 10/31/2011 2:20:14 PM PDT by SZonian (July 27, 2010. Life begins anew.)
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To: dubyagee

Here’s a cheaper, more effective solution: DDT. Rachael Carson is responsible for the deaths of millions.


10 posted on 10/31/2011 2:22:35 PM PDT by hsalaw
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To: Saundra Duffy
Mimic
11 posted on 10/31/2011 2:26:16 PM PDT by Tribune7 (If you demand perfection you will wind up with leftist Democrats)
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To: dubyagee

My favorite insect, the beautiful and helpful dragonfly, dines mainly on mosquitoes. What, then happens to to them - and on up the chain/

Why do these aas*holes think they know better than nature?

Tunnel vision, combined with grant monies for any cockamamie idea you can come up with, will kill us all one day.


12 posted on 10/31/2011 2:27:36 PM PDT by maine-iac7 (ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
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To: dubyagee

Just use Tabasco Sauce

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z16gQeEtuyw


13 posted on 10/31/2011 2:30:24 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dubyagee

And so it begins...


14 posted on 10/31/2011 2:32:05 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: dubyagee

“The Agriculture Department, meanwhile, is looking at using genetic engineering to help control farm pests like the Mediterranean fruit fly, or medfly, and the cotton-munching pink bollworm...”

Now if they could just do something about the Moonbats...


15 posted on 10/31/2011 2:33:49 PM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: maine-iac7

xactly.


16 posted on 10/31/2011 2:35:58 PM PDT by dubyagee ("I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.")
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To: ez

Yes. I used to take the book of Revelation as highly symbolic...less and less these days, however.


17 posted on 10/31/2011 2:37:24 PM PDT by dubyagee ("I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.")
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To: ez
And so it begins...


18 posted on 10/31/2011 2:39:01 PM PDT by Dumpster Baby (Truth is called hate by those who hate the truth.)
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To: dubyagee
Yes. I used to take the book of Revelation as highly symbolic...less and less these days, however.

Fascinating and frightening, isn't it.

19 posted on 10/31/2011 2:53:48 PM PDT by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton, "Paradise Lost")
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To: Dumpster Baby

Hmmm, democRAT in ecstasy.


20 posted on 10/31/2011 3:28:40 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (They vote twice, we'll vote three times. AND DONATE TO FR MORE!)
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