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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 https://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:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/10/03/18722970.php
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