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DESCRIPTION:\n\nFilm evenings begin with potluck refreshments & social hour at  
 6:30 pm,\nfollowed by the film at  7:30 pm, followed by a discussion after 
 the film.\n\nSCIENTISTS UNDER ATTACK\nby Bertram Verhaag\n\nThis 
 hard-hitting documentary shows how the genetic engineering (GE) industry 
 has blocked the evolution of scientific knowledge.  The heavy hand of the 
 biotechnology industry steers a fraudulent “science” towards its own 
 interests while eliminating the actual, legitimate science that exposes GE 
 for the fraud that it is.  We have already been guinea pigs of the GE mafia 
 for a long time.  What is termed “genetic research” is only related to 
 the higher sciences in rare cases and instead is normally associated with 
 hard-core business and enormous prospects of profits — but only if 
 critics keep silent.  If the GE industry were interested in scientific 
 truth, it would push for studies to be repeated with the alleged 
 “flaws” corrected.  But this never happens.  Instead, GE companies use 
 their patent-based ownership of genetically modified (GM) crops to deny 
 scientists access to research materials — the GM crop and the non-GM 
 parent line control.  So original research by independent scientists 
 showing problems with GM crops is buried under a deluge of smears — and 
 follow up studies are not done.  This film highlights the corporate 
 takeover of science and academia.\n\nThe message of the film — who is 
 really in charge — is underlined by public interest attorney and 
 activist, Andrew Kimbrell, who is interviewed fishing for trout in a river. 
  He points out that trout eat caddis-flies, which can be killed by Bt maize 
 toxin leaching into rivers.  He says the GM industry follows a linear 
 economic model based on a drive towards more and more production, 
 regardless of the cost to nature and ourselves.  He says this model of 
 progress is a delusion:  “Everything is made from the earth — these 
 clothes, this camera, this fly rod.  There is only one economy — the one 
 that we see around us right now.  The other economy, of capital and 
 technology and the stock market, is all made up in our heads.   Industry 
 hasn’t grasped that we need to evolve into a stable economy enmeshed in 
 ecology.  We are going to have to follow the laws of nature and not the 
 artificial laws of any technology.  The salmon come back to where they were 
 born to spawn and die, and then the young come out.  It’s not linear, 
 it’s a life-giving circle.”\n\nThis film is brought to us by California 
 Right to Know – campaigning for the passage of Proposition 37 (labeling 
 GM foods sold in California) in our November ballots, to be voted on 
 November 6.  After this evening’s feature film, Scientists Under Attack, 
 they will show a bonus documentary:  Monster Salmon.\n\nWheelchair 
 accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 donations are 
 accepted\n http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/03/18722970.php
SUMMARY:Film: Scientists Under Attack
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org
URL:http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/03/18722970.php
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