On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Giovanni Santostasi <gsantost...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > People are fooling around with genetics in their home labs. > This is actually pretty cool and I support the emergence of these citizen > scientists. > > Sorry- not cool: terrifying. How soon we forget the legend of Frankenstein. Some genies need to stay in the bottle as far as lay people are concerned. Even the experts can make a mess. Can you imagine some crazy teenager making a virulent virus because he's angry at his father? Shudder at the thought.
