Re:James Watson on Gray Ooze... (Score 0)

Let's see, James Watson, Gore Vidal, oh! Ok. Gore Vidal was one of the early (1978) cautionary authors who warned of the potential for biochemical warfare as an agent of mass destruction, a simular event which actually happened in the anthrax attack on Washington. He also presaged 9/11 by warning how commerical airliners might me misused as an agent of mass destruction. You see, what I'm driving at is that Vidal gave us a timely warning at to the possible dangers of technology. Reading his book, however sensational and based in fiction it may be, many years ago alerted me and millions of others to the possible abuses of technology. James Watson, for all his obvious brilliance, is hardly read outside of science circles. Vidal as a communicator of ideas took Watson's ideas and presented them in such a way that the average man could understand them. There's your comparison. Jesh, I'm mollified that I actually had to spell it all out for you.