Posted at http://home.intekom.com/tm_info/rw90525.htm, Author suggests wording to use (e.g., genetic engineering) and wording to avoid (e.g., biotechnology) in communicating negatively about biotech foods.
In letter to the editor, Lancet is criticized by a representative of the Biotechnology Industry Organization for placing politics and tabloid sensationalism above its responsibility to report and assess new science.
Posted at http://home.intekom.com/tm_info/rw90525.htm, Author suggests wording to use (e.g., terminator) and wording to avoid (e.g., gene protection) in communicating negatively about biotech foods.
Einsiedel, Edna F. (author) and Thorne, Bruce (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
1999
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C19622
Notes:
Pages 43-57 in Sharon M. Friedman, Sharon Dunwoody and Carol L. Rogers (eds.), Communicating uncertainty: media coverage of new and controversial science. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, Mahwah, New Jersey. 277 pages.
