Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There are risks which are not acceptable: the destruction of humanity is one of them.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
There is no room for political, personal or religious ideologies in science.
The idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all.
Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.
Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.
They cannot count on the press and they cannot count on Congressional committees to bring the problems of the scientific community to their own attention, or to police the scientific community.
It is the business of the future to be dangerous; and it is among the merits of science that it equips the future for its duties.
If nothing is at risk, nothing is established.