<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><b>Cyber Attack Spikes Report of Collusion Between Scientists, Industry, and Government</b><div>Press Release: <a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/?attachment_id=2363">http://www.bioscienceresource.org/?attachment_id=2363</a></div><div><div><br></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Helvetica; "><b>"Science as Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda"</b></div></div></div><div>New ISN Article: <a href="http://www.independentsciencenews.org/science-media/science-and-social-%20%0Acontrol-political-paralysis-and-the-genetics-agenda/">http://www.independentsciencenews.org/science-media/science-and-social-
control-political-paralysis-and-the-genetics-agenda/</a></div><div><br></div><div><div><b>Quick Summary of the importance of the article to those concerned with public health, food, agriculture, social justice, and the environment:</b></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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. </div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>"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 <i>Independent Science News</i> was attacked." Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director, The Bioscience Resource Project</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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