We felt that last night's Four Corners program on so-called gene patents failed to present any sort of balanced view of the topic, devoting about 90% of its time to the case against, predictably focusing on dedicated doctors, lawyers and researchers along with emotionally-charged examples of individuals and families whose lives have been tragically affected by genetic diseases.Were it not for brief interviews with US patent attorney Kevin Noonan during the first part of the program, and Executive Director of the Sydney Garvan Institute Professor John Shine towards the conclusion, there would have been no contrary case presented whatsoever.
