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Nanotechnology's Dilemmas
Now is the time to wrestle with the ethics of this Pandora's Box
The Scientist 2005, 19(23):10
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Nanotechnology can learn much from history. As the biotechnology industry recently discovered, ignoring public policy and social issues – namely, possible heath and environmental hazards from genetically modified foods – invites a public backlash that crippled progress and sent corporate stocks plummeting. If nanotechnology is billed as the "Next Industrial Revolution",[1]
then it also must raise a host of important social and ethical questions that we need to consider now.
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