{"id":53,"date":"2008-02-18T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/53"},"modified":"2008-02-18T09:09:01","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T14:09:01","slug":"nanofear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/53","title":{"rendered":"Nanofear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nanotechnology isn’t morally acceptable<\/a> to a lot of people.<\/p>\n

My immediate reaction, after playing “what the?” is that this is a reaction from ignorance. I mentioned before<\/a> that many people get visions of nanobots taking over the world dancing in their heads when you mention the word “nanotechnology” so I suspect this is just a simple reaction. It’s unknown, so I am suspicious and am predisposed to rejecting the idea<\/em>. Calling it immoral is just an easy way to reject it, requiring little thought.<\/p>\n

Of course it’s ignorant, because most of the respondents probably have a computer, which has nanoscale components in it. And use other nanotech products, perhaps even on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

I’m not sure how the pollster draws the religious conclusions, because the poll questions aren’t given and we only have his word that the people were well-informed adults. I don’t trust polls, especially ones that are opaque.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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