If you are unfamiliar with this subject, click here first for a brief introduction. The Double Helix about his Nobel Prize-winning discovery, is still at the forefront of his field. Also undimmed, despite his 72 years, is his capacity to cause trouble. Mills says that last week, during a visit to London from his native Chicago, Watson blasted Prince Charles for campaigning against genetically modified foods.
People get hysterical about work with genes.
That's why they're being so silly about GM crops. You have to wait for something wrong to occur before you know how dangerous something is going to be. You have to invent the bicycle before someone can fall off it. In the past 25 years, nobody has died from any of the scaremongering scenarios posited in the 1970s. The way we all move around on jet planes, these contaminations are bound to happen.