".....for the last
seventy years all chemical and biological technologies, from genetic
engineering to pesticides, have been built on a myth of precision and
specificity. They have all been adopted under the pretense that they
would function without side effects or unexpected complications. Yet the
extraordinary disasters and repercussions of DDT, leaded paint, agent
orange, atrazine, C8, asbestos, chlordane, PCBs, and so on, when all is
said and done, have been stories of the steady unraveling of a founding
myth of precision and specificity.
Nevertheless, with the help of industry propagandists, their friends
in the media, even the United Nations, we are once again being preached
the gospel of precision. But no matter how you look at it, precision is a
fable and should be treated as such."
--Jonathan Latham
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