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The editors asked me to elaborate a bit on a point I made during the conference at a panel discussion, namely on the complexity of natural processes and the warning it gives us, not to tinker about with it: If it were not for other reasons then for the one reason that we cannot assess the consequences.
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Drieschner, M. (2002). The Burden of Proof — On the Impossibility of Technology Assessment for the Human Genome Project. In: Grunwald, A., Gutmann, M., Neumann-Held, E.M. (eds) On Human Nature. Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, vol 15. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-50023-7_12
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