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Nature 394, 517 (6 August 1998) | doi:10.1038/28938

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German ambivalence to genetic engineering

Jürgen Hampel1

  1. Center of Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg, Industriestrasse 5, D-70565 Stuttgart, Germany

You reported the results of a German project on perceptions of biotechnology, saying that Germans are deeply suspicious of genetic engineering and that expectations are predominantly negative (Nature 393, 299; 1998). But our study shows that the predominant attitude of Germans towards genetic engineering is in fact ambivalence.