Posted on 04/17/2014 8:51:12 AM PDT by Renfield
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.
Soon all of the “Luddite” accusing freepers will appear!
Quite the opposite, actually.
Patenting Life, NYT Op-Ed by Michael Crichton
This could be a problem.
it is already illegal in Europe.
why can’t the GMO be labeled in the USA? just labeled. We label aspartame, sacarine, sugar, fructose, high fructose corn syrup, etc...
We label MSG (to the point where they have started using new names for MSG)...
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 dont 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 dont 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 dont want to say I dont 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.
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...
Science by bureaucrat
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...........
read the article and yes very good points. Perhapse dna could be viewed like how atoms are, since they are a building “block” they cannot be patented.
Much how you cannot patent Atoms like hydrogen, however you may patent a “process” for using/creating Hydrogen.
but only the process... not the actual product.
It would be like a patented process for fracking, just because you use a patented process for fracking to make more natural gas you cannot patent the gas that flows into people’s homes...
What are the new names? I have three boys who have very negative behavior effects from eating MSG containing foods. So we read labels looking for the stuff.
It’s a natural substance! It’s all in your head! MSG is safe, the science is settled! You’re a Luddite for believing that hippie crap!
The above is of what you will be accused by other FReepers. Here’s the list that I use. http://www.truthinlabeling.org/hiddensources.html
I’ve found that growing and preserving as much as I can greatly helps, along with making most of our food from scratch.
[ Science by bureaucrat ]
It all started in the early 1960’s with the “Scientific Elite” that Eisenhower warned us about in his farewell speech...
It really blossomed after Nixon created the EPA and we entered into the Climate Scientists who were more politician than scientist.
The RNAi has to be expressed in the seed so Monsanto can control seed production.
Lol. I don’t worry too much about what others think about food sensitivities. One person in our house can’t have this and another can’t have that. It is just the way things are.
Thanks for the link!!
BookMark
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