One of the comment under an article on The Scientist said:

However, technology is not science, as the author clearly points out. There is nothing, absolutely nothing in the science that says anything either way about the safety or danger of the technological applications we may deploy on the basis of this science. It is, however, rationally implicit in this science that these technologies are both extremely powerful and that some of their applications are irreversible. Irreversibility and profoundly powerful implications in the context of very little to no data that clearly establish long term safety is at the very minimum a huge red flag from any rational perspective at all.

So this commenter is not against science. He is just scared of science, because unfortunately science says nothing about safety, making any implication of science, that is, all existed and to-be technologies, unsafe, and therefore ‘unkind’.

I argue that he/she is actually scared of the world. What is the world? The world is what we know little or none about – that’s the world. However, too many people thought that the world is what they know pretty well and they feel pretty safe until science tells them what the world really is. They feel extremely uncomfortable living in such still not well enough known, not well enough predictable, world, so much that they wish this is just the opinion of science. So, when they are unhappy enough, they adopt the opinion of religion, alternatively.

So my conclusion is: talks about ‘potential’ hazards of science, and technology as well, are all religious.

UPDATE: NO OFFEND. I, at least, don’t feel offended when I’m called religious on scientific issues. Because I admit that everyone needs religion. Every time we come to ethical issues and debates we are actually religious in doing so. I don’t feel offended when I’m called scared of the unknown nature of the world, because this kind of fear anthropologically roots inside every individual of human being, which calls for religions. What I am calling for is the awareness of our religious nature besides our rational nature. These are indeed two streams of tendency exist in every mind. Scientists are exclusively using one stream, while critics on science are exclusively using the other.