To: letters@guardian.co.uk
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Dear Sir/Madam,
In the GM
debate, and all other debates
relating to the commercial
exploitation of scientific
knowledge, we need to remind
ourselves that scientists are
human, that humans are evolved
from animals, that it is still
very much our animal nature
which determines our
perception of the world and
our responses to it, and that it
is on these that our
capitalist, free-market
economy is largely based (Safe science is not always good
science, 19 August 2003). If this is kept in mind, it is much easier to understand the confusion which arises when intelligent, well-educated scientists and others use their considerable mental powers to rationalise (usually quite unawares) their more animal than human interests.
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