Assistant Minister for Finance, Craig Emerson, has fired a shot at some of his State Labor counterparts, by calling for a rational, science-based approach to assessing the role of genetically modified crops. [...] In his keynote address at last week’s CropLife Australia 2008 Perspectives Conference, Dr Emerson told members of the crop protection and crop biotechnology industry that there was a new push for dogma and superstition to prevail over fact and reason.