It is driven by the necessity of expanding its market to its limits, and would rather turn any healthy person into a potentially sick one rather than making the sick healthy. Confusing agent and cause, it disseminates the new paradigm of the genetic cause of desease to pave the way to predictive medicine. Cancer, obesity, mental desease, alcoolism, etc. The cause of desease being genetic, the only reasonable thing to do is to entrust our genes to the philanthropic transnationals which will cure them, at the same time exculpating the social system which is the real causes of these deseases. Third, since predictive medicine cannot be developed on private funds alone, it requires the prior socialization of costs - the human genome project.
Critics can be only fanatics who presumably carry fanaticism genes.
Again, a familiar pattern. Fourth complacent, naive, mystified or corrupt scientists and their likes in charge of public trust are drafted into deceiving the public in the name of Science, progress and miracles to come. For one dubious success, how many more alternative paths will be ignored. Again, this is what agricultural genetics tells us. There is no doubt that Terminator is a profitable technology to confiscate the genetic ressources which the people of this planet have accumulated and improved ever since the early domestication of plants and animals.