Subscribe Press Search Site Recommend this page to a friend Leave a Message Links SIRC Media Watch Archive Articles of Note - October 1999 Teenage girls 'risking health to lose weight'. The new risks to scientific progress. Public debate about the safety of biotechnology is being driven by an irrational retreat from reason and an unattainable desire for complete freedom from risk.
Opinions vary widely from country to country on the safety or otherwise of GMOs.
The Finns and Belgians are not very worried, the Swedes and British are somewhat worried, and the Greeks are very worried, a survey report concluded. You can trust their cheese or their government, but when it comes to the French, you can't trust both. Forget the millennium. Nobody today gets black marks for undercooking whatever fricassee of fear happens to be on the stove. Better expect the worst and lay out the morgues in the swimming pool.