Reacting to a perceived slight by Lord Broers in this weeks Reith Lecture, Eric Drexler has used the Foresight institutes new objective and independent news channel to thunder It is a pity that Lord Broers has joined the parade of denialists who discuss distorted versions of obsolete scenarios to the exclusion of all research in the field since 1990 an accusation more usually levelled at the Drexlerians.
In supporting evidence for molecular manufacturing we have, in the blue corner, a two year old essay written for the AAS, while in the red corner we have almost every paper in every peer reviewed journal relating to nanotechnology in the last twenty years.
A somewhat unequal contest we think. Perhaps pistols at dawn may offer a better solution?