Sometimes the enemies of biotechnology utterly puzzle me. I’m so mystified by their motives that I’m forced to a simple conclusion: These people aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed, or the brightest crayons in the box. No, these are the kind of people who need an hour to make minute rice.
“Ah! the truth is a thing I get rid of as soon as possible!” says Lord Goring in one of Oscar Wilde’s plays. “Bad habit, by the way. Makes one very unpopular at the club.”
The new Star Wars movie, Revenge of the Sith, earned untold millions in its opening days--and only a few hours after the curtains rose, illegal copies of the film were already circulating on the Internet.