THE NATURE OF THE LEFT:

Malaria: GM mosquitoes offer new hope for millions: Controversial strategy would mean releasing laboratory-created insects into wild (Ian Sample, March 20, 2007, The Guardian)

The multimillion-dollar effort to eradicate one of the world's deadliest diseases received a significant but controversial boost yesterday when scientists announced the creation of genetically modified mosquitoes that cannot pass on malaria.

Trials revealed that the GM mosquitoes could quickly establish themselves in the wild and drive out natural malaria-carrying insects, thereby breaking the route through which humans are infected.

The strategy is likely to prove contentious as it would require the unprecedented release of tens of thousands of GM organisms into the wild. But it has raised hopes among scientists, some of whom believe it may be powerful enough to finally bring under control a disease which strikes 300 million people a year and causes more than 1 million deaths, mostly of children in sub-Saharan Africa.

Nowhere is it easier to see the antihuman nature of the secular humanists than in their eagerness to bioengineer/clone/etc. humans in order to extend their own lives, but their fanatical resistance to bioengineering non-humans to save millions of Africans.

Posted by Orrin Judd at March 20, 2007 7:09 AM