By day, Roger Highfield is a mild-mannered science journalist, author and broadcaster. But under that crisp white lab coat beats the heart of his alter ego, Boffin...

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GM Food

GM food. Given how nature fiddles around with our genes all the time, I am not bothered by the idea of GM food. However, as is true with any technology, there are good uses and bad ones. Would I eat GM soya, for example? Yes. Was I surprised that so many people rejected it? No. In the case of GM soya, consumers were being asked to tolerate a tiny but unquantifiable risk posed by the first generation of a ...

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