In September, an eminent group of scientists called upon the scientific community to “stand together in staunch opposition to the violent destruction of required tests on valuable advances, such as golden rice, that have the potential to save millions” of people from “needless suffering and death.” But this passionate appeal fails to address the fundamental problem: the unfounded notion that there is a meaningful difference between “genetically modified organisms” and their conventional counterparts.
9月，一组杰出科学家呼吁科学界“团结起来坚决反对针对黄金大米等宝贵进步所必须的实验的暴力破坏，这些进步可以拯救数百万”人免于“不必要的痛苦和死亡”。但这一热烈呼吁并不能解决根本性问题：毫无根据地认为“转基因生物”（GMO）和常规生物之间存在有意义的差异。