Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future
by Sheldon Rampton, John Stauber
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Author: John Stauber, Sheldon RamptonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2002-01-10
ISBN: 1585421391
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Tarcher
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Book Review: "Science is becoming our enemy instead of our friend" (Dr. Robert Becker)
Summary: 5 Stars
Robert Proctor understood the situation perfectly well when he stated : "Science has a face, a house, and a price; it is important to ask who is doing science, in what institutional context, and at what cost."
In 1960 we had 63 scientific reports on asbestosis. The 11 studies founded by the asbestos industry found no link whatsoever between asbestos and lung cancer. The other 52 independently financed studies did observe a clear link.
Nowadays, well into the 21st century, genetically modified food, regarded as "safe" by the FDA, are everywhere in our supermarkets. However, the only study we know of, from Dr. Arpad Pusztai, discovered that Monsanto-potatoes produced deformations when fed to rats. Since this study was financed by Monsanto, he got fired.
Science has been privatised and it is with nostalgia that we recall the situation in 1960, when industry was only able to finance 17 % of all studies, and could not obscure the truth. Nowadays, big corporations finance nearly all scientific investigation, obliging scientists to remain silent if the study doesn't produce the desired outcome, thereby undermining the spirit of neutrality and objectivity that should prevail in science. Who doesn't play by those rules is fired, like occurred not only to Dr. Pusztai, but also to Dr. Nancy Olivieri, Dr. David Kern, Dr. Robert Becker, etc. It's a pity that the public doesn't know, let even support those heroes, those honest persons, putting the interest of the general public to know the truth before private profits. They went as far as putting our interests before their own careers and salaries. Dr. Becker summarizes the current state of scientific investigation in the following words : "... science is becoming our enemy instead of our friend." He was nominated twice for the Nobel prize, but in Stockholm they are possibly not very interested in such a strong statement during the official ceremony.
The corruption of science began when government agencies began to rely on "experts" from the industry to "evaluate" drugs and foods. It continued in the same bad direction when university researchers were being paid by industry to produce papers with "honoraria of $ 1.000 to $ 1.500 to edit the drafts and lend their names to the final work", as the authors say.
Read this book to understand how science got so corrupted.
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