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Joel Achenbach — The Pentagon Wants to Create a Bioengineered Insect Army to “Protect Crops”

Critics fear it could become a bio-weapon.… The program, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), has a warm and fuzzy name: 'Insect Allies'. But some critics find the whole thing creepy. A team of skeptical scientists and legal scholars published an article in the journal Science on Thursday arguing that the Insect Allies program opens a "Pandora's box" and involves technology that "may be widely perceived as an effort to develop biological agents for hostile...

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