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By Mae-Wan Ho
The biotech empire is fast collapsing because it has got the science wrong. Read this riveting
inside-story of the fluid genome from a scientist who has been warning that genetic
engineering is both dangerous and futile for over a decade.
This book is now out of print. Used copies are often available through and the book is still
available electronically from the i-sis online store
Find out why the whole biotech enterprise, from GM crops and gene drugs to human cloning,
is a phenomenal waste of public finance and scientific imagination, and, most importantly,
what it means to be living with the fluid genome.
From the author of the international bestseller, Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare?
Turning the Tide on the Brave New World of Bad Science and Big Business, 1998, 1999.
The Author
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, long-time critic of neo-Darwinism and pioneer of a 'physics of
organisms', is one of the most influential and widely sought-after speakers in the new
paradigm of organic science. As Director and co-founder of the Institute of Science in
Society and scientific advisor to the Third World Network, she has had plenty of
opportunity to put her science in action.