Intervention: Confronting the Real Risks of Genetic Engineering and Life on a Biotech PlanetINTERVENTION challenges two of the most sacred tenets of modern society, innovation and technology, from the perspective of the unique risks they present. Using genetic engineering as its model, it paints a vivid picture of the scientific uncertainties that biotech risk evaluations dismiss or ignore, and lays bare the power and money conflicts between academia, industry and regulators that have sped these risky innovations to the market. Intervention champions an alternative method for assessing the risks of technology, developed by the world's top risk experts, that can eliminate such conflicts, help regain public trust in science and government, and drive research and development toward more useful, safer products. |
Contents
Genesis 1 What If the Experts Are Wrong? | 1 |
Of Mice Men and Uncertainty | 2 |
The Effects of Biotech at Scale | 3 |
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