But in fact there are real issues involved, and so his petulant outburst and repetitive assertions of complete safety involve not only arrogance, but deception. Jukes' over-simplification of the Frostban genome alteration and his analogy to nitrogen-fixing bacteria are intended to misinform those people who know little or nothing about evolution and ecology.
It is appropriate but ironic that he draws a parallel between the Berkeley Greens' trampling of plants to the "struggles against hostility, fear and sabotage" that beset scientists in the past. For the record, the scientists he mentions (Galileo, Lavoisier, and Darwin) were more closely aligned to modem-day environmentalists because they were struggling against established theological and scientific thought just as the Greens are struggling against the modem-day scientific priesthood's defending and rationalizing of its own particular dogma.
On the contrary, it is the environmentalists who have exposed, to the discomfort of many scientists, the many risks ...
