[ShareTompkins] Cyber Attack Spikes Report of Collusion Between Scientists, Industry, and Government

[A Wilson]

Cyber Attack Spikes Report of Collusion Between Scientists, Industry,  
and Government
Press Release: http://www.bioscienceresource.org/?attachment_id=2363

"Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda"
New ISN Article: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/science-media/science-and-social- 
  control-political-paralysis-and-the-genetics-agenda/

Quick Summary of the importance of the article to those concerned with  
public health, food, agriculture, social justice, and the environment:
A key determinant of the success of the food and environment movements  
is the extent to which people understand their personal health to be  
linked to the safety of their food and the quality of their environment.

If people believe that their fate is determined by their genes then  
they will reason that they can potentially ignore a deteriorating  
environment or low quality food. This connection has been exploited by  
industries and governments who have consistently and deliberately  
promoted genetic explanations of health, often in the absence of any  
evidence. As this article explains, in less than thirty years the  
population has come to largely believe that genes (and not food, or  
toxins) are fate.

It is vitally important, therefore, for the future popular support of  
the food and other social movements (and to the possibility of  
effective ag, social and environmental policy) that these groups  
understand properly that genetics is largely a PR strategy and not  
science. The food and other social movements must explain to their  
members, politicians, and society at large, that attempts to  
scientifically locate illness in genetic predispositions have  
foundered. Otherwise, these movements are likely to remain marginal  
and linked mainly by their failure to develop.

"Genetic determinist thinking about lung cancer probably saved the  
tobacco industry. It may well be the single biggest factor working in  
favour of industrial agriculture, hazardous consumer products and  
workplace toxins and against meaningful public health, prevention, and  
environmental policies. Industry knows this and that is why we think  
Independent Science News was attacked." Jonathan Latham, PhD,  
Executive Director, The Bioscience Resource Project

Jonathan Latham, PhD

www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

jrlatham at bioscienceresource.org
Skype: jonathanlatham2
Tel: 1-607-319-0279

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