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Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public de Steven M. Druker
DescripciĆ³n - CrĆticas 'A fascinating book: highly informative, eminently readable, and most enjoyable. It's a real page-turner and an eye-opener.'--Richard C. Jennings, Ph.D., Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, UK 'This incisive and insightful book is truly outstanding. Not only is it well-reasoned and scientifically solid, it's a pleasure to read--and a must-read. Through its masterful marshalling of facts, it dispels the cloud of disinformation that has misled people into believing that GE foods have been adequately tested and don't entail abnormal risk.' --David Schubert, Ph.D. molecular biologist and Head of Cellular Neurobiology, Salk Institute for Biological Studies'Altered Genes, Twisted Truth is lucid, illuminating, and alarming. As a former New York City prosecutor, I was shocked to discover how the FDA illegally exempted GE foods from the rigorous testing mandated by federal statute. And as the mother of three young kids, I was outraged to learn how America's children are being callously exposed to experimental foods that were deemed abnormally risky by the FDA's own experts.'--Tara-Cook Littman, J.D. 'Steven Druker has written a great book that could well be a milestone in the endeavor to establish a scientifically sound policy on genetically engineered foods. The evidence is comprehensive, clear, and compelling; and its credibility is irrefutable. No one has documented other cases of irresponsible behavior by government regulators and the scientific establishment nearly as well as Druker documents this one. His book should be widely read and thoroughly heeded.'--John Ikerd, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Missouri - Columbia'Altered Genes, Twisted Truth will stand as a landmark. It should be required reading in every university biology course.'--Joseph Cummins, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Western University, London, Ontario'Steven Druker has done a beautiful job of weaving a compelling scientific argument into an engaging narrative that often reads like a detective story, and he makes his points dramatically and clearly. The examination of genetic engineering from the standpoint of software engineering is especially insightful, exposing how the former is more like a 'hackathon' than a careful, systematic methodology for revising complex information systems. I will recommend this book to my friends.'--Thomas J. McCabe, developer of the cyclomatic complexity software metric, a key analytic tool in computer programming employed throughout the world'Based on over 30 years of teaching computer science at universities and on extensive experience as a programmer in private industry, I can state that Steven Druker has done an excellent job of demonstrating the recklessness of the current practices of genetic engineering in comparison to the established practices of software engineering. His book presents a striking contrast between the two fields, showing how software engineers progressively developed greater awareness of the inherent risks of altering complex information systems - and accordingly developed more rigorous procedures for managing them - while genetic technicians have largely failed to do either, despite the fact that the information systems they alter are far more complex, and far less comprehended, than any human-made system.'--Ralph Bunker, PhD'Steven Druker has written one of the few books I have encountered, in my many years of public interest work, with the capacity to drive major change in a major issue. What Ralph Nader's Unsafe at Any Speed was to the auto industry and what Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was to synthetic pesticides, Altered Genes, Twisted Truth will be to genetically engineered food. It is profoundly penetrating, illuminating, and compelling, and it could stimulate a monumental and beneficial shift in our system of food production.'--Joan Levin, JD, MPH'Altered Genes, Twisted Truth is very readable, thorough, logical and thought-provoking. Steven Druker exposes shenanigans employed to promote genetic engineering that will surprise even those who have followed the ag-biotech industry closely for years. I strongly recommend his book.'--Belinda Martineau, Ph.D., a co-developer of the first genetically engineered whole food and author of First Fruit: The Creation of the Flavr Savr(TM) Tomato and the Birth of Biotech Foods 'Altered Genes, Twisted Truth reveals how the inception of molecular biotechnology ignited a battle between those committed to scientific accuracy and the public interest and those who saw genetic engineering's commercial potential. Steven Druker's meticulously researched book pieces together the deeply disturbing and tremendously important history of the intertwined science and politics of GMOs. Understanding this ongoing struggle is a key to understanding science in the modern world.'--Allison Wilson, PhD molecular geneticist, Science Director, The Bioscience Resource Project ReseƱa del editor āWithout doubt, one of the most important books of the last 50 years.ā From the Foreword by Jane Goodall This book tells the fascinating and frequently astounding story of how the massive enterprise to reconfigure the genetic core of the worldās food supply was born, how it has routinely advanced through illicit means, and how it is recklessly subjecting our health and the health of the environment to unacceptable risks. It reveals that the venture is not based on sound science, as its proponents claim, but on the evasion of the standards of science; and it shows how for more than three decades, a host of eminent biologists and esteemed institutions have systematically contorted the truth in order to conceal the unique risks of genetically engineered foods ā and get them onto our dinner plates. The book also exposes how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) became a key accomplice, in furtherance of its explicit agenda āto fosterā biotechnology. Based on documents pried from the FDAās files through a lawsuit that the author initiated, it describes how the agencyās politically influenced administrators disregarded the extensive warnings of their own scientists about the unusual risks of these novel products and ushered them onto supermarket shelves in violation of the mandates of federal food safety law. It further shows how they concealed their crime by covering up their expertsā warnings and persistently lying about the facts, creating the illusion that GE foods have undergone rigorous scientific review when, in reality, the standard procedures of science have been circumvented. Consequently, for almost 20 years, Americaās families have been regularly ingesting a group of novel products that are not only being sold illegally, but were determined to be unduly hazardous by the FDAās scientific staff. By the time this story has fully unfolded, it will be clear that the degradation of science it documents has not only been unsavory, but unprecedented ā and that in no other instance have so many scientists so seriously subverted the standards they were trained to uphold, misled so many people, and imposed such magnitude of risk on both human and environmental health. BiografĆa del autor Steven M. Druker is a public interest attorney who, as executive director of the Alliance for Bio-Integrity, initiated a lawsuit that forced the FDA to divulge its files on genetically engineered foods. This revealed that politically influenced administrators had covered up the warnings of their own scientists about the unusual risks of these foods, lied about the facts, and then allowed them to be marketed illegally. In organizing the suit, he assembled an unprecedented coalition of eminent scientists and religious leaders to stand with his organization as co-plaintiffs - the first time scientists had sued a federal administrative agency on the grounds that one of its policies is scientifically unsound. He is a prominent commentator on the risks of GE foods and has served on the food safety panels at conferences held by the National Research Council and the FDA, has given lectures at numerous universities (including the Biological Laboratories at Harvard and the University of Copenhagen), and has met with government officials throughout the world, including the UK's Environmental Minister and the heads of food safety for the UK, France, Ireland, and Australia. He also conferred at the White House Executive Offices with a task force of President Clinton's Council on Environmental Quality. His articles on GE food have appeared in several respected publications, including The Congressional Quarterly Researcher, The Parliament Magazine, and The Financial Times. He earned his B.A. in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley (with high honors that included a special award for 'Outstanding Accomplishment') and received his Juris Doctor from the same institution (and was elected to both the Law Review and the legal honor society).
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- Name: Altered Genes, Twisted Truth: How the Venture to Genetically Engineer Our Food Has Subverted Science, Corrupted Government, and Systematically Deceived the Public
- Autor: Steven M. Druker
- Categoria: Libros,Libros universitarios y de estudios superiores,Medicina y ciencias de la salud
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- Tipos de archivo: PDF Document
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- Idioma: EspaƱol
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