I originally constructed this web site primarily for the benefit of the students in my classes at San Francisco State University, from which I am now retired. (I am currently a research professor at the Institute for World Religions in Berkeley, California.) I am leaving the site online in the hope that people will still find it to be useful. All of the material is copyrighted. Permission is granted for individual, single copy, personal use only. Please send suggestions, corrections, broken links, and inquiries about other use of the materials to me at epstein@sfsu.edu. |
TENTH ANNIVERSARY YEAR
SITE FOUNDED IN 1996
ESSAYS ABOUT GENETIC ENGINEERING | GENETICALLY ENGINEERING HUMAN BEINGS |
GENETICALLY ENGINEERED PLANTS AND FOOD | INTERNET LINKS |
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOWARFARE | BOOKS ON THE DANGERS OF GENETIC ENGINEERING |
"The Rest Of The Story Behind Genetic Engineering: An Interview with Brian Tokar" by Mark Oshinskie
"PR for the 'Book of Life'" by Jackie Stevens
"Synthetic Life" by W. Wayt Gibbs
"Unraveling the DNA Myth: The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering" by Barry Commoner
"Data Stored in Multiplying Bacteria" by Natasha McDowell
"Genetic Copy of Cat Not a Copycat after All" by Kristen Hays
GM Microbes Invade North America
"Mice 'make human proteins in semen'" by Dr David Whitehouse
"Mice produce sperm from monkeys" by Dr David Whitehouse
"Killer virus: An engineered mouse virus leaves us one step away from the ultimate bioweapon" by Rachel Nowak
"Rebellious Bodies Dim the Glow of `Natural' Biotech Drugs" by Andrew Pollack
"Klebsiella planticola--The Gene-Altered Monster That Almost Got Away" by Elaine Ingham
"Biohazards: The Next Generation?" by Brian Tokar
"Biotech at 25--Too Soon to Celebrate"
"Xenotransplantation: How Bad Science and Big Business Put the World at Risk
from Viral Pandemics" by Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins
"Splicing the Sting Out of Bugs" by Aaron Zitnerfrom Viral Pandemics" by Mae-Wan Ho and Joe Cummins
"Horizontal Gene Transfer – The Hidden Hazards of Genetic Engineering" by Mae-Wan Ho, Ph.D.
True Food Shopping List: How to Avoid Genetically Engineered Food
5 reasons to keep Britain [and the rest of the world] GM-free "Super Organics" by Richard Manning "GM TRIALS TO FIND MEDICINE RAISE NEW ETHICAL FEARS; HUMAN GENE CROP FURY" by JOHN INGHAM AND TOBY MOORE
"Genetically Modified Foods: Are They a Risk to Human/Animal Health?" By Arpad Pusztai, Ph.D.
"Transgenic DNA introgressed into traditional maize landraces in Oaxaca, Mexico" by David Quist and Ignacio H. Chapela Worldwide Initiatives Against GMOs"Bad Bad seeds in court: when genetically modified plants contaminate their crops, organic farmers fight big biotech" by Thomas Hayden"GM Trials to Find Medicine Raise New Ethical Fears; Human Gene Crop Fury" by John Ingham and Toby Moore
"THE 'GOLDEN RICE' HOAX -When Public Relations replaces Science" by Dr. Vandana Shiva"NASA's Earth plants could invade Mars" by David Perlman
USDA Says Yes to Terminator
GENETIC ENGINEERING AND BIOWARFARE
Bioterror Researchers Build a More Lethal Mousepox
"Now for GM weapons: It's time to get tough with the biotech firms over germ warfare" by Jeremy Rifkin
Bioterrorism issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases (July/August, 1999, v5n4)
"The Demon in the Freezer" by Richard Preston
"Ebola Virus Could Be Synthesised" by Sylvia Pagàn Westphal
"Scientists Create a Live Polio Virus" by Andrew Pollack
"Bioterror And Biosafety" by Vandana Shiva
"US Non-lethal Weapon Reports Suppressed" by Debora MacKenzie
"Single Gene Leap Led to Flea-Borne Transmission of Plague Bacterium" by Laurie K. Doepel
"A Terrifying Power" by Philip Cohen
"Prepare for the Worst" By Rachel Nowak "With Biotechnology, a Potential to Harm" by Andrew Pollack
"Now for GM weapons: It's time to get tough with the biotech firms over germ warfare" by Jeremy RifkinProject Censored: Human Genome Project Opens the Door to Ethnically Specific Bioweapons
"Secret U.S. Germ Tests Threat to Treaty" by Roland Watson
"Engineering Humans" by Rachel Massey
"The New Eugenics: The Case Against Genetically Modified Humans" by Marcy Darnovsky
"Scientists Raise Spectre of Gene-Modified Athletes" by James Randerson
"Gods and Monsters: Talking apes, flying pigs, superhumans with armadillo attributes, and other strange considerations of Dr. Stuart Newman's fight to patent a human/animal chimera" by Mark Dowie
FRONTLINE "Organ Farm: The Risks of Xenotransplantation"
"The Threshold Challenge of the New Human Genetic Technologies"
"Governing the Genome" by Ralph Brave
"The Human Genome Map: The Death of Genetic Determinism and Beyond" by Mae-Wan Ho
"Genetically Altered Babies Born" by Dr. David Whitehouse
Alliance for Bio-Integrity
Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)
Center for Bioethics: Ethics of Gene-Patenting
Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS)
Center for Food Safety
Center for Genetics and Society
Council for Responsible Genetics
ETC Group--biotechnology
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
Greenpeace True Food Network
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
Institute of Science in Society
Mothers for Natural Law
Nochimera
Norfolk Genetic Information Network
Organic Consumers Association
Third World Network
Totnes Genetics Group
US FDA/Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition: Biotechnology
USDA Biotechnology Information Center
Biosafety Information Network and Advisory Service (BINAS)
Center for Bioethics: Ethics of Gene-Patenting
Center for Ethics and Toxics (CETOS)
Center for Food Safety
Center for Genetics and Society
Council for Responsible Genetics
ETC Group--biotechnology
Genetic Resources Action International (GRAIN)
Greenpeace True Food Network
Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism
Institute of Science in Society
Mothers for Natural Law
Nochimera
Norfolk Genetic Information Network
Organic Consumers Association
Third World Network
Totnes Genetics Group
US FDA/Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition: Biotechnology
USDA Biotechnology Information Center
Bill McKibben. Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. NY: Henry Holt, 2003.
Jeffrey M Smith. Seeds of Deception: Exposing Industry and Government Lies about the Safety of the Genetically Engineered Foods You're Eating. Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2003.
Marc Lappe and Britt Bailey, eds. Engineering the Farm: The Social and Ethical Aspects of Agricultural Biotechnology. Covelo, CA: Island Press, 2002.
Kathleen Hart. Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment With Genetically Engineered Food.Pantheon, 2002.
Brian Tokar, ed. Redesigning Life? The Worldwide Challenge to Genetic Engineering. McGill-Queens University Press, 2001.
Ronnie Cummins and Ben Lilliston. Genetically Engineered Food: A Self-Defense Guide for Consumers. Marlowe & Company, 2000.
Richard Heinberg. Cloning the Buddha: The Moral Impact of Biotechnology. Wheaton Il: Quest, 1999.
British Medical Association. Biotechnology, Weapons and Humanity. London: BMJ Bookshop, 1999.
Mae-Wan Ho. Genetic Engineering, Dream or Nightmare. Gateway Books, 1998.
Marc Lappe and Britt Bailey. Against the Grain:the Genetic Gamble with Our Food. Common Courage Press,1998.
Jeremy Rifkin. The Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World. Tarcher/Putnam, 1998.
Vandana Shiva. Biopiracy : The Plunder of Nature and Knowledge. Boston: South End Press, 1997.
Ruth Hubbard and Elijah Wald. Exploding the Gene Myth. Rev. ed. Boston: Beacon Press, 1997.
Jane Rissler and Margaret Mellon. The Ecological Risks of Engineered Crops. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1996.
Robin and Laura Ticciati. Genetically Engineered Foods: Are They Safe? You Decide. Keats, 1998.
John Fagan. Genetic Engineering: the Hazards, Vedic Engineering: the Solution. MIU Press, 1995