There are no genetic scientists among them.
Keith
At 18:04 08/08/2011, you wrote:
FOR THOSE ON THE LIST WHO APPARENTLY HAVE DIFFICULTY SEARCHING WEBSITES.
FROM THE WEBSITE BELOW:
UCS Board Members
James J. McCarthy (Chair) is Alexander Agassiz
Professor of Biological Oceanography at Harvard
University and past president of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr.
McCarthy serves on many panels and commissions
relating to oceanography, polar science, and the
study of climate and global change. He chaired
the committee that oversees the International
Geosphere-Biosphere Program, and served as
co-chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II.
Peter A. Bradford (Vice-Chair) advises and
teaches on utility regulation and energy policy
in the United States and overseas. A former
member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and
former chair of the New York and Maine utility
commissions, he has advised many states on
utility restructuring issues. He has taught
energy law and policy at the Yale School of
Forestry and Environmental Studies and the
Vermont Law School. He served on a panel
advising the European Bank for Reconstruction
and Development on how best to replace the
remaining Chernobyl nuclear plants. He was also
part of an expert panel advising the Austrian
Institute for Risk Reduction on issues
associated with the opening of the Mochovche
nuclear power plant in Slovakia. He is the
author of Fragile Structures: A Story of Oil
Refineries, National Security and the Coast of Maine.
James A. Fay (Board Member Emeritus) is
professor emeritus of mechanical engineering at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A UCS
board member since 1978, Dr. Fay is former chair
of the Massachusetts Port Authority, a fellow of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the
American Physical Society, and the American
Association for the Advancement of Science, and
a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
His published works on the environmental impact
of energy technologies include (with Dan Golomb) Energy and the Environment.
Richard L. Garwin is a National Medal of Science
laureate and Fellow Emeritus at IBM. He has done
a wide range of research in fundamental and
applied physics. He was involved with the
development of the first thermonuclear weapons
and the first photo-intelligence satellites and
is a leading expert on many arms control
matters. He has served on the President's
Scientific Advisory Committee, the Defense
Science Board, and the 1998 Rumsfeld Commission
to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the
United States. He also was Philip D. Reed Senior
Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council
of Foreign Relations. He is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences, the National
Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of
Medicine. His most recent book (with Georges
Charpak) is Megawatts and Megatons: The Future
of Nuclear Power and Nuclear Weapons.
Kurt Gottfried (Chair Emeritus) is emeritus
professor of physics at Cornell University. A
co-founder of UCS and Chair of the Board of
Directors during 1999-2009, he has served on the
senior staff of the European Center for Nuclear
Research in Geneva, is a former chair of the
Division of Particles and Fields of the American
Physical Society, and is a member of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
Council on Foreign Relations. He has published
widely on theoretical physics and national
security issues, authoring Quantum Mechanics,
Concepts of Particle Physics, The Fallacy of
Star Wars, and Crisis Stability and Nuclear War.
Andrew Gunther is executive director of the
Center for Ecosystem Management and Restoration,
the executive coordinator of the Bay Area
Ecosystems Climate Change Consortium, and a
founding partner of Applied Marine Sciences,
Inc. He has published research in the field of
ecotoxicology and has extensive experience in
applying science to the development of air,
water, and endangered species policy. Dr.
Gunther also served as the assistant chief
scientist for the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Program from 1991 to 2002.
Geoffrey Heal is a Paul Garrett Professor of
Public Policy and Corporate Responsibility at
the Graduate School of Business at Columbia
University, where he was previously Senior Vice
Dean. He is a Fellow of the Econometric
Society, past President of the Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists, and a
member of the Environmental Protection Agency's
Scientific Advisory Board. His 16 books include
Nature and the Marketplace and Valuing the
Future. He is also a Director of Petromin
Holdings PNG Ltd. and chairs the Advisory Board
of the Coalition for Rainforest Nations.
James S. Hoyte (Treasurer) is the assistant to
the president/associate vice president for Equal
Opportunity Programs, lecturer in environmental
sciences and public policy at Harvard College,
and adjunct lecturer in public policy at the
Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. He is also a member of the
University Committee on Environment at Harvard.
Mr. Hoyte is a lawyer who has served as
secretary of Environmental Affairs for
Massachusetts and as chair of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority.
Anne R. Kapuscinski is the inaugural Sherman
Fairchild Distinguished Professor of
Sustainability Science at Dartmouth College and
environmental scientist known for her research
on fisheries conservation, ecological risk
assessment of genetically modified organisms,
and sustainable aquaculture. She has advised the
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture under three
administrations and written several influential
scientific reports for the U.S. government, the
National Academy of Science, the World Health
Organization, the Food and Agriculture
Organization, and the state of Minnesota.
Kapuscinski has received a Pew fellowship in
marine conservation, a USDA honor award for
environmental protection and the distinguished
service award from the Society for Conservation
Biology for extraordinary contributions to
conservation policy and interdisciplinary analysis of sustainability issues.
Jessica T. Mathews is president of the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, an
international research organization with offices
in Washington, D.C., Moscow, Beijing, Beirut and
Brussels. Her career includes posts in the
executive and legislative branches of
government, in management and research in the
nonprofit arena and in journalism; including
director of the Office of Global Issues on the
staff of the National Security Council in the
White House; deputy to the undersecretary of
State for Global Affairs; founding vice
president and director of research ('82-'93) of
the World Resources Institute; professional
staff member - House Interior Committee;
Subcommittee on Energy and Environment; and,
member of the Editorial Board of The Washington
Post; and Washington Post columnist ('91-'95).
Edward L. Miles is the Virginia and Prentice
Bloedel Professor of Marine Studies and Public
Affairs at the University of Washington. He
holds joint appointments in the School of Maine
Affairs of the College of Ocean and Fisheries
Sciences and the Evans School of Public Affairs.
He is also a senior fellow in JISAO where he
serves as the co-director of the Center for
Science in the Earth System and leader of the
Climate Impacts Group. Dr. Miles has been a
participant in the work of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1994. In
2003 he was elected to membership in the U.S.
National Academy of Sciences and in 2005 he was
elected to the rank of Fellow of AAAS. Dr.
Miles' fields of specialization are
international science and technology policy,
marine policy and ocean management, and the
impacts of climate variability and change at global and regional scales.
Mario J. Molina is professor at the University
of CaliforniaSan Diego and president of the
Mario Molina Center for Strategic Studies in
Energy and the Environment. He has served on the
U.S. President's Committee of Advisors in
Science and Technology, and is a member of the
U.S. Academy of Sciences and the Institute of
Medicine. Dr. Molina and two colleagues shared
the 1995 Nobel Prize in chemistry for their
research on the depletion of stratospheric ozone.
Stuart L. Pimm is Doris Duke Chair of
Conservation Ecology at Duke University. His
work focuses on conservation biology and the
protection of biodiversity. He is a Pew scholar
and the author of The World According to Pimm: A
Scientist Audits the Earth and The Balance of
Nature? Ecological Issues in the Conservation of
Species and Communities. Dr. Pimm was awarded
the Dr. A.H. Heineken Prize for Environmental Sciences in 2006.
Louis Salkind serves on the Executive Committee
of D.E. Shaw & Co., a global investment and
technology firm. Dr. Salkind received his A.B.
from Princeton University in 1978, where he
studied mathematics and physics, and his Ph.D.
from the Courant Institute in 1990, where he
studied computer science and robotics. He is a
recipient of the USENIX Lifetime Achievement
Award and the NYU Distinguished Alumni
Award. Dr. Salkind is also President of Bright
Horizon Foundation, a nonprofit that focuses on
sustainability, global security, and education.
Adele Simmons is vice chair of Chicago
Metropolis 2020, a regional planning group, and
co-chair of the task force preparing Chicago's
Climate Action Plan. She serves on the boards of
Marsh & McLennan Companies, the Chicago Council
on Global Affairs, and the Field Museum. Mrs.
Simmons was president of the John D. and
Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and president
of Hampshire College. She has also served on the
president's Commission on Environmental Quality
and the Commission on Global Governance.
Nancy Stephens is an actress and political
activist. A California gubernatorial appointee
to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy
Advisory Board, Ms. Stephens also serves on the
executive board of the Earth Communications
Office and the advisory board of the Liberty
Hill Foundation. She is a longtime member of the
Environmental Leadership Forum of the California
League of Conservation Voters and also serves as
president of the Rosenthal Family Foundation.
Thomas H. Stone (Secretary) is chair and CEO of
Stone Capital Group, Inc, a family investment
company. He devotes significant time to
nonprofit organizations that work on global
environmental problems, with young people in
underserved communities, with the disabled, and
with music organizations. Mr. Stone is an
arbitrator for FINRA Dispute Resolution and the
National Futures Association. He teaches
disabled skiers and also serves on the boards of
the Ravinia Festival Association and the Merit School of Music.
Ellyn R. Weiss is an artist, a retired partner
in the law firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot, and
former general counsel to UCS. Ms. Weiss has
also served as assistant attorney general for
environmental protection for the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, special counsel and director of
the Secretary of Energy's Human Radiation
Experiments Initiative, and deputy assistant
secretary of the Office of Environment, Safety,
and Health within the U.S. Department of Energy.
On 8/8/2011 6:14 AM, Keith Hudson wrote:
Barry,
At 13:09 08/08/2011, you wrote:
You may want to look at some of the
information at
http://www.ucsusa.org/food_and_agriculture/science_and_impacts/impacts_genetic_engineering/impacts-of-genetic.html
I'm afraid that I'd take no notice of the Union
of Concerned Scientists. Worthy though it
seems, attractive though its website is, there
isn't a single scientist mentioned as a patron
or a researcher or a member. Is that not a teeny weeny bit odd?
As I wrote before on this thread to Mike, there
are thousands of scientists who work outside
the GM industries and whose career depends not
one little bit on whatever they might say about
GM food who would have something to say (and
would be prepared to give their name to) if
there was any specific danger that is presently conceivable.
Keith
Barry
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