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The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology (Monographs on the History and Philosophy of Biology) Reprint Edition
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- ISBN-100195111435
- ISBN-13978-0195111439
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication dateNovember 7, 1996
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions9.15 x 0.77 x 6.02 inches
- Print length320 pages
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- Publisher : Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (November 7, 1996)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0195111435
- ISBN-13 : 978-0195111439
- Lexile measure : 1580L
- Item Weight : 1.08 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.15 x 0.77 x 6.02 inches
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I'd also like to make a side point. Successful industries create their market, so what do you do if you need to sell drugs to make a profit? You create sick people. How do you do that? You promote unhealthful practices, cure nothing, and make sure doctors only treat symptoms. You also lobby to make it mandatory for children to take vaccines containing aluminum, mercury, cancer causing viruses, foreign DNA, etc., etc. resulting in chronic disease and allergies. That's how, and that is just for starters. Believe it or not, that is what was and is being done to us, and then some. Kind of makes you sick, doesn't it?
I don't know what book the previous reviewer read, but I don't remember anything about the Rockefeller family improving its PR, or owning pharmaceutical companies. Those statements may be true, but I don't remember them from this book.
The conclusion states that in the popular imagination it is logical and natural for science to begin investigating the possibility altering individuals' genetics to weed out disease and promote desirable traits. The author contends that this is not merely the next logical step, but one of the primary reasons why the Rockefeller Foundation supported the life sciences in the first place. The other primary reason is to understand human-kind better so that we can be managed systematically.
The author also clearly explains that the Foundation's influence on scientists is not one of top-down command, but one of mutually reinforcing interests. The symbiotic relationship that the foundation forms with the scientific community is best described by the author as "Hegemony".
Overall, this book was very well written, very credible, and not afraid to call it like it is.



