Abstract
The United Nations is a bastion of corruption, profligacy and incompetence that is a particular threat to the inhabitants of poor nations. Its policies, programs and agencies have made a growth industry of the unscientific regulation of important technologies-of which gene-splicing [also known as recombinant DNA technology or genetic modification (GM)] is only one. The UN's actions regularly defy scientific consensus and common sense, instead pandering to extremists. The result is vastly inflated research and development costs, less innovation, and diminished exploitation of superior techniques and products that could offer monumental humanitarian and economic benefits.
