Should scientific experiments be illegal? Cloning at home? Creating viruses and bacteria? Isn’t innovation driven by building new things in your garage?
I don’t trust corporations to experiment with cloning, radiation, genetic modification or nanotechnology. Not with their current control over governmental and democratic oversight, their history, the way short term goals and thinking are market rewarded, the limited liability of the officers of these companies,. the companies access to incredible legal defenses and their history of avoiding responsibility at all costs.
Also since companies miraculously achieved the rights of persons in a bizarre legal victory, we can’t even take their charters away anymore.
Oh, and yes, I don’t think just anybody should be allow to experiment in those areas and probably some others.
Though you have to sort of love that Swedish guy. His hubris, his naivte, his honesty, his idiocy all reaching Greek Mythological heights.