Je vous ai récemment parlé de la scandaleuse menace d'un groupe d'écolos intégristes qui ont planifié la destruction - évidemment totalement illégale et illicite - d'un champ de froment GM pour résister aux aphides. Leur envoyer du sel dans les fesses n'est malheureusement pas une option... Les chercheurs ne sont évidemment pas des gros bras ni des appariteurs musclés (pour ceux qui se souviennent de ce que ça veut dire).
Mais, après avoir signé leur pétition suppliante (yecch !), je reçois ce mail :
"Dear Petition Signatory
You supported the appeal by Rothamsted scientists against plans by a group to take direct action against their research into whether GM wheat can warn off aphids.
The Take the Flour Back group is pursuing this action but had agreed with the researchers’ proposal to debate their concerns before 27th May. The researchers organised a neutral venue and chair for a debate. Unfortunately Take the Flour Back has announced they will not take part. There is a timeline of the exchange between Professor John Pickett and Take the Flour Back at http://www.rothamsted.ac.uk/Content.php?Section=AphidWheat&Page=Protest
There’s lots of other discussion going on. Professor Pickett will be on Newsnight on BBC2 at 10.30 tonight. Many of you left comments on the petition asking about aspects of the research and we have received many questions and points by email and twitter. The scientists at Rothamsted, and colleagues at institutions doing related work, have been responding to many of them; some of this is now up on http://www.senseaboutscience.org/pages/rothamsted-appeal.html
Please send the message far and wide: forward the scientists' appeal to your friends and colleagues, share the petition on Facebook and use Twitter hashtag #dontdestroyresearch.
http://www.senseaboutscience.org/petition.php
Best regards
Síle Lane"
Dois-je traduire ? Ces gens de "Take the Flour Back" sont d'une invraisemblable arrogance. Si on laisse ce genre de bonshommes faire la loi, on s'assure des lendemains qui chantent !
Je suis vraiment écoeuré.