"the temporal association of Guillain-Barre syndrome with vaccination during the swine flu program is irrefutable."
A gene therapy technique, hailed as 2002's 'breakthrough of the year' in its ability to shut down specifically and precisely any chosen gene, has been found not to be so specific or precise after all. The technique involves RNA interference ("Subverting the genetic text", SiS 24), the ability of a short specific duplex sequence of RNA to target the transcript of gene, thereby shutting it down. Unfortunately, there are "off-target" effects on other genes and proteins.