Cosmetic companies are testing NANOTECHNOLOGY on innocent women!!

[Vesayen]

From New Scientist:

Cosmetics manufacturers are keen to appear cutting edge, and often blind consumers using scientific jargon. But buzzwords like "nanocapsules"-currently one of their favorites-could be their undoing.

Scare stories about nanotechnology turning the world to "grey goo" have lead Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England, to call for new regulations - and one of the targets she has in her sights is the cosmetics industry. Her website claims that "thousands of owman are acting as unwitting 'guinea pigs' for the cosmetics industry...with many products containing ingredients manufactured by 'nanotechnology'"
Famous facial products do indeed contain billions of nanoscopic capsules designed to help the skin absorb the cream's active ingredients. Though there's not a goo-making nanobot in sight, Lucas claims to be "horrified to find nanotech products sitting innocently in my bathroom cabinet."

[Giant_Squid]

Just think what will happen when someone makes combines those nanocapsules with a self-replicating von Neumann nanoassembly code! No power on Earth would be able to stop them! If I'm doing my calculations right, within seventy-two hours every woman on the planet would be beautiful! We've got to stop th....wait a second....

[Lonestar]

Vesayn, maybe you should stay away from the Net for awhile...

[St Leo]

I am an environmentalist, but I very much disagree with the very dominant Luddite faction among us. Technology is good. It has solved environmental problems in the past and it will solve them again.

Nanotech is good.

[Az]

No no no! It's like those evil genetically modified by cross breeding cattle and crops! Science is evil, I think we should run around naked, grunt, and pound eachother on the head senceless with giant clubs.

[Urban Ranger]

St. Leo,

The problem is not with insufficient technology. The problem is mostly a social one - or perhaps a socialization one.


Azazel,

The problem with food is not production, it's with distribution. GM not only tries to fix a problem that's not there, but it is also an attempt to monopolise seed supplies in the case of crops.

[Al B. Sure!]

now look what has become of your precious space program and technologies, vesayan...

[Az]

Azazel,

The problem with food is not production, it's with distribution. GM not only tries to fix a problem that's not there, but it is also an attempt to monopolise seed supplies in the case of crops.

yep, that's why the morons are running around in biohazard suits screaming "frankenfood, frankenfood".

[Urban Ranger]

Originally posted by Azazel

Azazel,

The problem with food is not production, it's with distribution. GM not only tries to fix a problem that's not there, but it is also an attempt to monopolise seed supplies in the case of crops.

yep, that's why the morons are running around in biohazard suits screaming "frankenfood, frankenfood".

Com'on David, you can do better in responding to their arguments instead of just demonising them.

[Az]

Com'on David, you can do better in responding to their arguments instead of just demonising them.

Your economic argument is fair and valid, though debatable. I am talking about the bulk of anti-GM protestors which are the treehugging vegan morons enviromentalists.

[Urban Ranger]

GM is not useless, but current applications are. There are researches in GM for, say, producing (biodegradable) plastic in plants using GM. Now that's a better use of modern technology.

[Gary]

GM is useless in that there's no necessity for it so the risks are unjustified.

BTW Vesayen, you ought to have posted the bit on Quantum from that NS page, too. That was a major eye opener with regards to what the advertising authorities allow, or at least fail to stop.

[Az]

GM is not useless, but current applications are. There are researches in GM for, say, producing (biodegradable) plastic in plants using GM. Now that's a better use of modern technology.

There seems to be a market for current applications as well. Why is there such a demand?

Also, This field is just in it's diapers.

[Flandrien]

Re: Cosmetic companies are testing NANOTECHNOLOGY on innocent women!!

Originally posted by Vesayen
Though there's not a goo-making nanobot in sight, Lucas claims to be "horrified to find nanotech products sitting innocently in my bathroom cabinet."

Everybody has self-replicating nanobots in his bathroom.
They are called bacteria.

[Az]

not only in his bathroom. EVERYWHERE.