Prologue
1: From optimism to pessimism
2: Medicine and magic
3: Organic farming
4: GM: the case for
5: GM: the case against
6: The rise of eco-fundamentalism
7: The perils of precaution
8: The attack on science
9: Multinational companies and globalization
10: Reason and democracy
Epilogue
Index
Dick Taverne was the Labour MP for Lincoln from 1962 to 1972, when
he resigned to fight the famous Lincoln by-election as an
independent social democrat in 1973, and won. In 1974 he wrote The
Future of the Left, Lincoln and After (Jonathan Cape), which
predicted the split in the Labour party that happened seven years
later. He is now a Liberal-Democrat peer. Becoming gradually more
and more concerned about the increasing mood of hostility and
suspicion
towards science, in 2002 he founded the association 'Sense About
Science' to promote an evidence-based approach to scientific
issues.
`There is much to agree with and even to admire in Taverne's
wide-ranging and trenchant observations.'
Nature Publishing Group
`Momentous stuff.'
British Medical Journal
`Admirable new book.'
Guardian
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