The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World

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Summary: The Beginning of the End
Review: The unparalleled scientific achievements described by the author are truly awesome; in fact, they dwarf all of mankind's former endeavours. The science is, as described, invaluable, if left to disease treatment and relief of suffering. Now the downside: Once we started down this path, with no guiding light save the dim promises by the companies funding the research and the scientists pursuing "the Devil's doctrine" a la Chargaff, Civilization, and all we love and cherish, is living on borrowed time.

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Summary: Misunderstanding entropy
Review: This book is a must read for anyone with serious questions or concerns regarding our society's headlong rush into the golden era of genetic engineering. We had better read and understand, lest that golden era instead becomes "...darker, and more protracted by the lights of perverted science."