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It has been a worrying few weeks for believers in the benefits of technological progress. In mid-September, a number of scientific publications cast doubt on a high-profile attempt by biotech company Oxitec to control mosquito populations, suggesting the intervention may have actually strengthened the pests.
A little later, the alternative-meat craze took a blow when a spokesperson for the U.S. nonprofit Center For Consumer Freedom said that the "public is being misled" about the emergent products' nutritional value. In both cases, it should be said, the reports were disputed by the companies under fire. Nevertheless, a new atmosphere of cynicism and thwarted expectations has arisen in the world of utopian technology.
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