Neither the Scottish Executive nor HM Inspectorate were willing to comment last week, referring questions to the Executive's Dundee-based agency, Learning and Teaching Scotland. It too was unable to make any public statements, though insiders privately defended the use of Your World on the grounds that its articles were directly related to parts of the fifth and sixth-year biology curriculum. Scottish Enterprise's bio technology director, Peter Lennox, dismissed criticisms of the involvement of GM companies as nonsense. It didn't even cross our minds. I thought it was just knowledge.
Biotechnology is an enigma wrapped in a mystery and there is a lack of knowledge about it.