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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 23 2013 @ 08:39 PM EST |
I didn't say it was patentable, and I don't have to prove a valid use to pose a
hypothetical question. Notice the 'if'.
If your argument is GM products will NEVER be beneficial, then you have a better
crystal ball than I do. I don't know. What if somebody cures cancer via GM?
Impossible? I surely don't know, I'm in IT, not genetic research. I do work
for a healthcare delivery system (doctors and hospitals and the like), so I
wonder if some of the things that plague the human condition are 'solvable'
through genetic approaches.
My question is, IT THEY EVER ARE BENEFICIAL, IF IF IF, then what will provide
researchers the incentive to perform the expensive research to produce them.
Who will fund research that 9 times out of 10 will fail to produce a solution?
I haven't heard any suggestions... and I'm not sure patents are the answer...
but if not them, then what?
That is my question. Please don't assume I am taking a position on whether
patents are good or bad for this, or whether GM foods are good or bad... I'm
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