Genetically Modified Mosquitoes

Well thank you for clearing that up for the rest of the world. I'm happy to know that you are fully aware of which particular questions have and have not been put forth.

How I envy your expertise in everything going on in science, the Internet and the world' s societies. You are truly a marvel.

Cheers. - Frank

That's why it's called a FUTURE VISION, this implies that this is what the FUTURE may hold what the vision is. Research will OBVIOUSLY be done on the subject before use so it's not even a good question to ask... The question you should be asking what's the benefits and the consequences of altering insects DNA on the world and where does it stop... That's the question.

This WILL work if you hold your breath while you do it. Mosquitoes are mainly attracted to CO2 (where there is something exhaling, a blood meal can be found) and secondly to fragrances.

Energy force fields? Uh, OK. If you say so. :-)

Cheers. - Frank

A lot of questions have not been answered.

What happens to humans and other animals routinely bitten by GM mosquitos?
What happens up and down the food chain when a source of food is no longer available?

Why not spend the money on cures or vaccinations for the diseases that a few out of the many carry?

And there is a reason that science keeps changing the story. Science is an ever evolving process of learning.. We know more today than a year ago. Testing techniques get better, measurements get more accurate. fewer mistakes are made. So, scientific consensus evolves.

And some of it isn't really science. The egg thing is probably influenced by industry.

Scientists can't keep an answer...because they keep discovering better information.

Scientists, are human....and can fake evidence to support their pet theory, or alter their results because of funding. And sometimes they get excited by preliminary findings..and it gets promoted as hard fact. How many new cures for cancer have we read about..that were never mentioned again? Hundreds...maybe more. But it gets written up, because it's a good story. And when the researcher finds out that his pet theory is a dead end, he may not report it, out of embarrassment. And...it isn't a good news story.


My point is, that always having the reaction, "Science is out to destroy us", isn't helpful.

Added a tad later;

You said, "Claude, the general populace has become a tad wary of scientific discovery". I agree. But the reason is primarily that the majority of people are science illiterate. I don't mean that they are stupid. They are simply not interested in science. That's where a lot of the wariness comes from, in the general population.

There is some really educated wariness as well. But most of us don't know enough to know which is which. And with the mosquito thing? I'm in that group.

This is why I laugh at anyone who insists that "the science is this" just because they have read the media dispensed view of it. There are usually two sides and it's not "this is the science" -- it's which scientists do you think have the best handle on an issue. Global warming/global cooling -- nobody is stupid enough to think that climate on earth isn't always changing. There's just as many very qualified scientists who say we're going into cooling as there are on the side of warming. When I took astronomy before this was an issue, it was taught that we will either warm or cool depending on the same factors.

What we hear about "science" is only the side that favors the political agenda of the time. That isn't knowing squat about the "science" - it's an opinion. Period. Getting your science solely from a source that stands to gain a lot of bucks from their side of an issue is not "knowing the science". At all. We hear people raging every day that have no clue what they're raging about other than what they heard on a TV channel.

There are also plans to release GMO Salmon into the wild, and there is not one clue what the effects will be on the envirornment -- or on the people and animals who eat them. If they had any clues about the dangers of GMO corn and soy when they released that, they sure didn't make it publicly known. A lot of independent study has had to be done to learn exactly how disastrous it is, to anything that eats it and the soil, climate, etc.

Pharms release experimental drugs on people all the time. The FDA allows it. They are supposed to watch how much damage the drug does, submit research within xx amount of time, etc, but in the first release it is experimenting on the population given the drug. That's how they get the "tests" etc. done that allow them to know the effects.

It surprises me that so many want to discuss science that have no clue of scientific procedures, policies, laws, etc. People are still of the opinion that GMOs are safe even though, they're being banned in country after country. Why do you think that whole countries are just "paranoid"? The US isn't the only country with skilled research scientists. The laws are not as strict here about these things as some countries. Anyone who thinks that consequences of actions are known when something is allowed to be done is fooling themselves.