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To: Lee Lichterman III who wrote (156538)	4/16/2020 5:30:29 AM
From: sense	Respond to of 217931

The science of genetics has advanced considerably since I took molecular genetics... which must have been about 1978. What hasn't advanced nearly as much as the science, in those forty years, is our capacity for making serious errors in judgment. That issue should be unavoidably obvious, these days ? However, I'm not one of those in the luddite camp. In the most obvious meeting of risks with reality in the market place... we find the public debate over GMO foods that are being sold to us. That's not fully resolved yet, either... but there clearly as some extremes in errors being made there, already... Monsanto's ownership of pollen they now pollute the commons with ? It does make it apparent that this subject... enabling GMO humans... is probably not something anyone's going to "sneak past us" without the public first getting a say ? My own opinion... is simply that there clearly is far more risk inherent in acting in haste... than there can be in exercising a more deliberate patience. The situation is perhaps roughly analogous to that we had with drugs prior to thalidimide... ? I'd prefer that we avoid simply imposing costs as a barrier the way we have in nre drug discovery... It may be necessary to revisit the Supreme Court's decision that life forms are patent-able... The science is great... which still doesn't suggest to me we should risk more than we're willing to lose, or more than aware we are, when making choices we're not yet ready to make... "Wait for it"... works for me...