"emerging data suggest that, in some circumstances, the media reporting of science is surprisingly accurate and portrays a message created by the scientific community. As such, there are reasons to believe that the hyping of research might be part of a more systemic problem associated with the increasingly commercial nature of the research environment."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21776
Notes:
Pages 145-172 in Sandra Braman (ed), Biotechnology and communication: the meta-technologies of information. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, New Jersey. 287 pages.
USA: Center for Science in the Public Interest, Washington, D.C.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 143 Document Number: C22045
Notes:
13 pages., "While the biopharm industry pushes forward toward commercialization, USDA has kept the public and interested stakeholders in the dark about this reemergence (of approved applications for genetic engineering of plants to produce pharmaceuticals, industrial compounds and other novel proteins).
Vallas, Steven P. (author), Kleinman, Daniel (author), Kinchy, Abby (author), and Necochea, Raul (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 149 Document Number: D06735
Notes:
Pages 217-238 in Nico Stehr, Biotechnology: between commerce and civil society. Transaction Publishers,New Brunswick, New Jersey., Reveals evidence of feeling among scientists of self-interest and entitlement, fueled by commercialization of the university.