Political science

HATS off to Seán Sherlock TD for seeking a rational approach to GM crop technology (September 17).

In 1878, Darwin wrote to Irishman James Torbitt, who was trying to obtain government support for plant breeding research, saying: “I know little of public affairs, but fear that our governing men are so ignorant of science and so immersed in political squabbles that they will do nothing.”

Shane Morris