Once again I'm waiting for any scientific papers
which give evidence of ecological or human health damage.
Keith
At 23:08 08/08/2011, you wrote:
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 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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