as my mom used to say to my brother & me, It takes two to fight.... and we both got punished.

the only way to deal with this bothersome noise, is to ignore it... respond only to sensible comments... not always an easy thing to do... but if the serious discussion of an issue is worth enough to you, you do what you need to do.

like a spoiled child's screams, their reward is to get the focus upon themselves. deprive them of the reward and they'll go elsewhere for it. or else push too far & get censured.

so... for my hopefully useful input... genetic material is not all "switched on" continually... some genes are only active for a short time and then go dormant.

Without understanding what the results will be, much of the current techniques are akin to sending a group of kids through a building randomly flipping switches and then trying to determine what controls what. While not harmful as part of basic research... it is not acceptable to just release the end results into the environment on a vast scale. And that is what the mega corps are doing in their bid to scoop others and rake in the big bucks.   

The only way to control this is too put in regulations based on good science... not knee jerk reactions... but that never seems to be the way that politics works.