gengineering

Genetic engineering, which Paul McAuley calls "gengineering" (a contraction I have long thought inevitable), scares people.

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More noise is made by activists who fear that gengineering will get out of control and unleash plagues of superweeds, will poison people with unsuspected "unnatural" toxins, or will give megacorporations patent control over the living world and destroy the world's poor (see Jerry Cayford, "Breeding Sanity into the GM Food Debate," _Issues in Science and Technology_, Winter 2004).

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Those concerned about rationality fear that fear of gengineering could make us respond to a new but natural disease (think of the 1918 flu, or Mad Cow Disease, or AIDS, or Ebola) with a leap to the conclusion that someone is to blame, followed by immediate over-reaction and the destruction of nations (think of what we have done to Iraq out of fear of more conventional weapons of mass destruction).

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People who had the gengineering necessary to bare their skin to the elements.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 21.1 of 31.1 2009

Instead of fuming about the situation, he spent it in one of your company's labs, gengineering the modified molecular structure of an illegal but well-known and widely available epidural narcotizing agent.

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

They were willing to go to such occasional extremes because alien botanicals were frequently the key to the gengineering of everything from new pharmaceuticals to artificial flavorings, and much else besides.

Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

They were willing to go to such occasional extremes because alien botanicals were frequently the key to the gengineering of everything from new pharmaceuticals to artificial flavorings, and much else besides.

Drowning World Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

That's what comes of working for a firm that does a lot of gengineering work.

Flinx's Folly Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2003

Through the ambiguous miracle of gengineering, Coy Joy had moved far, far beyond wearing her emotions on her sleeve.

The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002

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The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002