Science's new toy should scare us all
By Elizabeth Farrelly
17 February 2018 — 12:05am
This is a horror story. I hope it scares you, because just telling it scares me. It’s about public trust, emotive coercion, human futures and how all these sit at the mercy of tired, old neoliberal groupthink. It’s not about our cat Diesel, but that’s where it begins.
Diesel died. Burmese and much beloved, he was the kind of feline who liked to make eye contact, have a chat, touch your face gently until you did. At 16 he was still glossy and chipper, still capable of kitten-style vertical take-off. But when we moved house he became quite suddenly sick, developed diabetic ketoacidosis and died over a week of hospitalisation, despite dozens of scans, tests, drugs and procedures.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/science-s-new-toy-should-scare-us-all-20180215-p4z0hy.html
