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Facts, Perhaps the Antidote to the Anti-gene Patenting Plague

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Kevin E. Noonan -- It is apparent that the facts are often at risk or ignored by opponents of gene patenting. Indeed, the various forms of fact-twisting or outright falsehood ("corporations own your genes") suggests that it isn't facts that are at issue but opinions, and how the public's opinion on gene patenting is to be best manipulated to oppose the practice. One example (of the very many) of this phenomenon came to us in a reader comment to our post, "Huffington Post Provides Latest Ant-gene Patenting Soapbox" last week. Our commenter writes: While the errors throughout her "editorial"...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).