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Malaysia releases GM mosquitoes in landmark trial http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/malaysia-releases-gm-mosquitoes-landmark-trial/By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 -- 12:56 pm Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, in a landmark trial slammed Wednesday by environmentalists who say the experiment is unsafe. In the first experiment of its kind in Asia, about 6,000 male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were released at an uninhabited site in the central state of Pahang, the government-run Institute of Medical Research (IMR) said. The IMR, which was tasked with carrying out the trial, said the experiment was conducted on December 21 to "study the dispersal and longevity of these mosquitoes in the field". "The experiment was successfully concluded on January 5, 2011," the institute said in a statement dated Tuesday, adding that no further releases are planned until the trial results are analysed. The insects in the experiment have been engineered so that their offspring quickly die, curbing the growth of the population in a technique researchers hope could eventually eradicate the dengue mosquito altogether. Females of the Aedes species are responsible for spreading dengue, a deadly disease which killed at least 134 people last year in Malaysia alone. The trial has sparked widespread concern among environmental groups and non-government organisations (NGOs), and had been postponed due to their protests as well as unfavourable weather conditions. "I am surprised that they did this without prior announcement given the high level of concerns raised not just from the NGOs but also scientists and the local residents," said researcher Lim Li Ching from Third World Network. The network is part of 29 public health and environmental groups which have repeatedly demanded the government cancel the trial, saying it was risky and could lead to unintended consequences. "We don't agree with this trial that has been conducted in such an untransparent way. There are many questions and not enough research has been done on the full consequences of this experiment," she told AFP. Critics have also said that too little is known about the Aedes mosquito, and how the genetically modified insects would interact with their cousins in the wild.
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately
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« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2011, 10:12:11 PM » |
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they used to release new diseases (like AIDS) via vaccination. Now all they have to do is release GM mosquitos by the thousands in the area for a precision strike attack. This is a bilogical weapon of mass destruction. They do not even hide it. By saying that the mosquitos quickly die means that it is intended as a swarm attack on a civilian population.
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All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately
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« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2011, 10:28:34 PM » |
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Those $26B must have been spent in a hole somewhere. That kind of money would help any poor country plenty. I haven't heard any of this, have you? Did a village of starving people suddenly receive a portion of this money to feed them? Did they give them sustained resources for the future? It's ironic how you can be good by giving away money. It's like giving a homeless guy a few dollars and he runs off to get some more beer. Those $26B were probably spent on manpower and a whole slew of other things before any help reached the really needy ones. It's a fallacy to think you can solve anything by throwing money at it. Solve the root cause for the need to donate, then nobody will have to donate in order to sustain anyone else. But of course, that is not "profitable" enough.
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« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2011, 10:57:12 PM » |
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The key word in all of this is: a technique researchers hope could eventually eradicate the dengue mosquito altogether.
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« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2011, 11:57:32 PM » |
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Bill Gates is a much more serious environmental concern than climate change. Yet the Greenies love him.
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« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2011, 06:03:01 AM » |
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Malaysia releases GM mosquitoes in landmark trial http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/01/malaysia-releases-gm-mosquitoes-landmark-trial/By Agence France-Presse Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 -- 12:56 pm Malaysia has released 6,000 genetically modified mosquitoes designed to combat dengue fever, in a landmark trial slammed Wednesday by environmentalists who say the experiment is unsafe. In the first experiment of its kind in Asia, about 6,000 male Aedes aegypti mosquitoes were released at an uninhabited site in the central state of Pahang, the government-run Institute of Medical Research (IMR) said. The IMR, which was tasked with carrying out the trial, said the experiment was conducted on December 21 to "study the dispersal and longevity of these mosquitoes in the field". "The experiment was successfully concluded on January 5, 2011," the institute said in a statement dated Tuesday, adding that no further releases are planned until the trial results are analysed. The insects in the experiment have been engineered so that their offspring quickly die, curbing the growth of the population in a technique researchers hope could eventually eradicate the dengue mosquito altogether. Females of the Aedes species are responsible for spreading dengue, a deadly disease which killed at least 134 people last year in Malaysia alone. The trial has sparked widespread concern among environmental groups and non-government organisations (NGOs), and had been postponed due to their protests as well as unfavourable weather conditions. "I am surprised that they did this without prior announcement given the high level of concerns raised not just from the NGOs but also scientists and the local residents," said researcher Lim Li Ching from Third World Network. The network is part of 29 public health and environmental groups which have repeatedly demanded the government cancel the trial, saying it was risky and could lead to unintended consequences. "We don't agree with this trial that has been conducted in such an untransparent way. There are many questions and not enough research has been done on the full consequences of this experiment," she told AFP. Critics have also said that too little is known about the Aedes mosquito, and how the genetically modified insects would interact with their cousins in the wild. 134 PEOPLE DIED OF DENGUE FEVER IN MALAYSIA LAST YEAR. This has got to be an epidemic. They could all die--all 28,300,000 of them.
This experiment will wind up killing more than 134 people.
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« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2011, 06:21:59 AM » |
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Here's the real problem with releasing Frankenstein monsters
into the environment ... they will overtake and eradicate
the original population if they are more viable/fit. This
is the reason they have reportedly engineered the 'early
death' ... they WANT the natural species to mate with
the Frankensteins, the 'early death' eventually killing off the species.
However, 'environmentalists' fear that the new, engineered
'species' that will no doubt emerge may be WORSE than
the natural species in ways than can't be foreseen ... or
in Gates' case, HAS been foreseen!
ANY genetically engineered species has the potential of
screwing up the planet's precariously balanced eco-system.
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« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2011, 06:26:22 AM » |
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ANY genetically engineered species has the potential of
screwing up the planet's precariously balanced eco-system.
Without question
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« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2011, 11:39:10 AM » |
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And so they have accomplished exactly what they set out to do. A little slap on the wrist from the environmentalist groups with the response, "Oops."
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2011, 11:52:41 AM » |
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"Give them all shots" is the modern day equivalent to "Let them eat cake".
Starve in "good health", suckers... that way, you can feel it!
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« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2011, 02:15:02 PM » |
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ANY genetically engineered species has the potential of
screwing up the planet's precariously balanced eco-system.
It's not unlike what they've done and are doing to the free market. Both are disgusting and immoral.
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"He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it." Martin Luther King, Jr.
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