[GraceG]

I do believe in DNA/RNA patents (because it helps foster research and paying for the research privately) however they should have expiration dates on them.

However, they should not become "steamboat willie" in terms of Disney's supposedly 50 year copyright on "Mickey Mouse" that has been extended indefinitely...

The Patent does need to expire with no exceptions.

[acapesket]

Soon all of the “Luddite” accusing freepers will appear!

[Flick Lives]

These tumor suppressor RNAs are missing in cancer patients. If they can be replaced — an experimental treatment known as microRNA replacement therapy — then doctors could theoretically stop the proliferation of cancer cells. But in agriculture where RNA is being engineered as a pesticide designed to kill insects that feed on crops — such as Monsanto’s RNA efforts aimed at the Western corn rootworm, the most economically destructive pest in corn production — it is paramount that the RNA in and/or on the corn that is later eaten by humans doesn’t subsequently infiltrate our cells causing who knows what kind of unintended consequences.

This could be a problem.

[ifinnegan]

Overly long, still not horrendous in terms of science writing.

Well presented and balanced enough to indicate the Chinese teams findings are not correct. (And, even if they were indeed not artifact/contamination such a finding wouldn’t point to any danger).

The Chinese scientists comments are also a huge red flag:

“Most of the people [who speculate about our work] just don’t believe it because the concept right now, I have to say, is broken by my results,” Zhang told Boulder Weekly in a recent interview from Nanjing. “They don’t want to believe until I have new data or the other groups reproduce some of our data. And of course some other people, for whatever reason I don’t want to say … I don’t want to even touch … they are just against our discovery no matter what it is.””

Arguing from this perspective, as a pioneer who is persecuted for revolutionary results, is not how a scientist argues. In fact such argument is the province of cranks, although I don’t think he is a crank, just frustrated and wrong with overly large ambition.

[null and void]

‘I’ve been a scientist for 30 years, I think I know what I’m doing and when I publish the paper you can comment on it.’

According to Vance, Monsanto representatives told her, “We were hoping to get to it before that happens.”

Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

[Red Badger]

Just because a gene ‘turns off’ something that you don’t want doesn’t mean that it doesn’t ‘turn on’ something else that you may not want even more...........

[freedomfiter2]

The RNAi has to be expressed in the seed so Monsanto can control seed production.

[familyop]

75-Year-Old Soybean Planter Loses Against Monsanto In Supreme Court
TBI ^ | Agence France Presse
Excerpt:
"The US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Monsanto Monday over an Indiana farmer accused of having pirated the genetically-modified crops developed by the agribusiness giant."

[familyop]

Agricultural Giant Battles Small Farmers
CBS News, April 26, 2008
"Pollination occurs, wind drift occurs. There's just no way to keep their products from landing in our fields," David said. "What Monsanto is doing across the country is often, and according to farmers, trespassing even, on their land, examining their crops and trying to find some of their patented crops," said Andrew Kimbrell, with the Center For Food Safety. "And if they do, they sue those farmers for their entire crop."

[familyop]

UPDATE Monsanto unapproved GMO wheat stored in Colorado through ‘11
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3037125/posts

[familyop]

South African GMO Crop Failure Highlights Dangers of Food Supply Domination
Friday, April 03, 2009 by: Barbara L. Minton
http://www.naturalnews.com/025992.html
“Then when the spreading of seeds is nearly complete, Monsanto begins to threaten these farmers and call their use of the GMO seed illegal. It gets the government behind them to enforce patent laws. Soon farmers who are paying patent royalties complain about those who are not. Monsanto answers by enforcing their patents on everyone. By this time the spread of GMO seed is so pervasive that any farmer who has refused is bound to have a few stray GMO plants in his fields.”

[familyop]

Bayer admits GMO contamination out of control
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2494519/posts

[Teacher317]

Americans have been eating it for 30 years, and no ill effects have been found yet... so we must ban it ASAP? *sigh*

[ronnie raygun]

When they publically state they are not cloning, including human experiments with other species they lie, they have to and want to because other countries are doing it and they must be ahead of the game. We are in for quite a ride in the near future

[Yaelle]

Save for later read.

[zeugma]

“Science” does not work the way most people think it does. The Benjamins have a lot more influence than just about anyone is willing to admit.