THE KIND OF SCIENCE DIPLOMACY WE NEED: “My answer is: There’s almost no food that isn’t genetically modified. Genetic modification is the basis of all evolution. . . . So a lot of modern plant strains were created by applying chemicals or radiation to cause mutations that improved the crop. That’s how plant breeding was done in the 20th century. The paradox is that now that we’ve invented techniques that introduce just one gene without disturbing the rest, some people think that’s terrible.”