Not since the grand utopian promises of the nuclear industry has a new technology made such grand claims as the genetic engineering (GE) industry now makes.
Those claims are not based on rigorous science, but the selling of
the idea of GE to scientists, politicians and others. Little funding is
given by industry or government to examine potential problems with GE,
and in general approvals are given to GE foods and GE crops based
primarily on company data.