Comments on Secondhand Smoke: Your 24/7 Seminar on Bioethics and the Importance of Being Human: Most Biotechnology is Not Controversial

I agree that the media WAS more obsessed with ESCs...

2007-04-02T13:12:00.000-07:00

I agree that the media WAS more obsessed with ESCs. But since the high-profile elections last November, it's all seemed to die down to what I would call white noise.

But I think the mainstream media obsession with cloning is about the same as GM foods and patenting of human genes. As for env't safety, I guess you don't read the Sierra magazine.

Likewise, I would never use mainstream media obsession to gauge morality.

Yes. Well, I suppose that is technically true. Bu...

2007-04-02T12:22:00.000-07:00

Yes. Well, I suppose that is technically true. But most of the sturm and drang, the screaming and hollering, is aimed at these issues, particularly Bush's policy because it implies strongly that nascent human life has moral value.

The environmental issues involving GM foods, the genome project, etc., are controversial in some quarters but do not receive the kind of media obsession that cloning/escr receive.

I would rephrase the title to read "Most Biotechno...

2007-04-02T07:34:00.000-07:00

I would rephrase the title to read "Most Biotechnology is Not Controversial to Wesley".

There are other objections to biotechnology besides ESCs and cloning. For instance, environmental, religious, civil liberties, safety, equitable distribution of its benefits among socio-economic classes, and tinkering with nature.