Reply #70: And another strawman is heard from [View All]

Nobody's 'dismissing the concept out of hand'.

All of us are united in saying that the implications are not yet well enough understood for anyone to be doing gene splicing within our actual food supply. If you're 'in science' but don't understand the concept of 'not well enough understood', then you must be someone junior in some other field.

Since you mention physics, read Feynman's mea culpa for not taking biology seriously. The arrogant young genius grad-student physicist, working in a bio lab one summer for a lark, thought he knew all there was to know about biology. So he screwed up an experiment that would have demonstrated a really fundamental principle in genetics. Ooops.