Three science horror stories

Science Horror Story Number One:
Cattle Antibiotic Moves Forward Despite Fears of Human Risk

The Washington Post reported March 4, 2007 that your government employees are about to "approve a new antibiotic to treat a pneumonia-like disease in cattle, despite warnings from health groups and a majority of the agency's own expert advisers that the decision will be dangerous for people."

Science Horror Story Number Two:
The rice with human genes

The first major step in Frankenstein Foods - the mingling of human-origin genes and those from plants - is about to be set loose in open fields. The laboratory-contrived rice produces some of the human proteins found in breast milk and saliva. Profiteers have been given preliminary approval by your government employees to grow it on more than 3,000 acres in Kansas and used in drinks, desserts, yoghurts and muesli bars.

Science Horror Story Number Three:
Government gave you nasty roses
Multi-flora rose was introduced to the eastern United States in 1866 as rootstock for ornamental roses. Beginning in the 1930s, your government employees in the U.S. Soil Conservation Service promoted it for use in erosion control and as "living fences" to confine livestock. State conservation departments recommended multi-flora rose as cover for wildlife. More recently, multi-flora rose has been planted in highway median strips by your government employees to serve as crash barriers and to reduce automobile headlight glare.

Multi-flora rose is a nasty plague on farms and in forests. Multi-flora rose was a shoot-from-the-hip solution to non-problems by your government employees. It is the same kind of solution to non-problems by your government employees as those in Science Stories Numbers One and Two, only the consequences from those might be more than the untold inconvenience and expense by landowners as caused by the wild rose projects.