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- Title
The Resistance Against the Reasons Defended by Pusztai Knowledge and Uncertainty in the Controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms.
- Authors
LARRIÓN CARTUJO, Jósean
- Abstract
This work addresses a very polemic and significant episode that has taken place in the scientific and technological sphere belonging to the contemporary occidental societies. The paper shows that scientific and technical positions very different and even clearly opposed and contradictory are coexisting in the general debate over the potential negative human and environmental consequences of the free global propagation of the transgenic foods. Principally taking into account the essential tension between a more traditional and conservative perspective in front of a more innovative and revolutionary point of view, this article analyses how a recognized and prestigious expert on this knowledge field very quickly turned into a professional dispossessed of his job and in an investigator especially discredited and unauthorized.
- Subjects
PUSZTAI, Arpad, 1930-2021; SCIENTIFIC communication; RISK assessment of transgenic organisms; SCIENTISTS' attitudes; SCIENCE &; society; SCIENTIFIC knowledge
- Publication
Politica y Sociedad, 2010, Vol 47, Issue 1, p215
- ISSN
1130-8001
- Publication type
Article