Kickstarter will ban at least one high profile DYI synthetic organism project by 2015

Created by RandomThinker on 2013-05-08; known on 2015-01-01; judged wrong by phreeza on 2015-01-08.

• RandomThinker estimated 65% on 2013-05-08
• RandomThinker said “Like this one: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/energy-environment/a-dream-of-glowing-trees-is-assailed-for-gene-tinkering.html?hp ” on 2013-05-08
• RandomThinker said “Any that’s profiled by mainstream press and involves distributing reproducible organisms with synthetic genome.” on 2013-05-08
• phreeza estimated 50% on 2013-05-08
• Michael Dickens estimated 40% on 2013-06-16
• Ken estimated 30% on 2013-06-17
• phreeza said “It seems they have now banned GMOs as rewards, effectively making kickstarter unatractive for future synthetic biology projects. Not sure how you want to judge this.” on 2013-09-09
• phreeza said “http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/7/4595876/kickstarter-founder-yancey-strickler-explains-ban-GMOs” on 2013-09-09
• phreeza   judged this prediction wrong on 2015-01-08.