> why put focused effort into patching something as easily remediated as the inability to synthesize Vitamin C, given the opportunity for unforeseen side effect

> why put focused effort into patching something as easily remediated as the inability to synthesize Vitamin C, given the opportunity for unforeseen side effects? I think you're missing the point: Why should there be a huge opportunity for unforeseen side effects? If you were grading an undergraduate programming project with the property that fixing an obvious bug makes who-knows-what else break, what grade would you assign? Further, what does that observation do to the idea that "Natural is better than human-made"? > I think he just doesn't want to eat his applesauce like a good wittle man. This comes off as really, really condescending. How does it add to the discussion?