Profit, status and stupidity still rules science!

"There is nothing that can be produced through radiation induced mutation that is not within the spectrum of possibilities of what nature can bring out in that crop, given sufficient space and time. All radiation induced mutation is doing is to facilitate a naturally occurring phenomenon." And there is no residual radiation left in a plant after the mutation induction, he says. "

Why is it that scientist's become simpering idiots and unscientific when they enter the promotion game of their favored technical solution for the planet? No danger from residual radiation - true. Danger from unforeseen circumstances due lack of diversity in agriculture - lots! If latest whiz bang, nuked wheat or rice becomes the one crop fits all and nature says, "yummie, let me create a new bacteria or predator for this new over-abundant species," then poof! whole crops are wiped out and new food hunger is created!

clipped from www.ipsnews.net DEVELOPMENT: New Food Must Go Nuclear By Sanjay Suri LONDON, Dec 2 (IPS) - Better crops on the one hand, and nuclear power on the other might be, you would think, at extreme ends of the technological, and for some, even the moral spectrum. But it could be time to make agriculture more nuclear.