Genetic Engineering, Dream Or Nightmare?: The Brave New World of Bad Science and Big BusinessGateway Books, 1998 - 277 pagine Is genetic engineering a modern magic wand, responsible for producing fantastic crops to feed the world's hungry and a miracle cure-all for human disease? Or, as this book claims, is it an untried and inadequalty researched technology that is out of control with nightmarish results? The author aims to show how genetic determinism is at odds with the reality of scientific findings; gives rise to misguided practices and projects that are unethical and exploitative; and is hazardous to human and animal health and the ecological environment. |
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Foreword | 1 |
Genetic Engineering Biotechnology | 19 |
The Science that Fails the Reality Test | 41 |
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