Even if there weren't, just having chemistry Nobel Prize winner Mario J.
Molina on board (CFCs threat to Earth's ozone layer) or biological
oceanographer James J. McCarthy, Nobel winning member for IPCC should
lend ample credibility.
However, at least two board members are geneticists; Anne R.
Kapuscinski, specializing in fish conservation genetics (escaped GMO
Atlantic salmon not only out-competing wild stock but being able to mate
with with stock and, may have the ability to cross-mate at the genus
level), and Ellyn R. Weiss, specializing in cellular development
biology, and in genetics and molecular biology.
But your concern initially was whether or not there were any
(accredited) scientists on board.
Darryl
On 8/8/2011 11:02 AM, Keith Hudson wrote:
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 California--San
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
Keith Hudson, Saltford, England
http://allisstatus.wordpress.com/2011/08/
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