‘Frankenscience!’ Google plans to release millions of modified mosquitoes into these 3 states

In the same week that a potential New World screwworm outbreak threatens Texas cattle, prompting a major response from the Department of Agriculture, Google has become the object of public ire as it attempts to move forward with a new mosquito experiment in a couple of states across the country.

As part of the project to “stop bad bugs with good bugs,” Google’s Debug program aims to release millions of sterile mosquitoes in order to combat and eradicate disease-carrying mosquitoes, the “deadliest animal on the planet.”

‘We do not consent to this experiment. Do not release the modified mosquitoes in our State.’

While the thought of fighting mosquitoes by releasing millions more mosquitoes may seem counterintuitive, the Sterile Insect Technique, as it is called, has proven