Word: exploitationism
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Though the United Nations maintains 16 camps for the 101,000 Indochinese refugees in Thailand at a cost of $11.5 million a year-$9.9 million of it provided by the U.S.-many would-be migrants are subject to cruel exploitation the instant they reach Thailand. All refugees arriving in the...
The fight to establish guidelines for recombinant DNA research has raised hackles in every quarter--in Washington over a series of legislative and administrative maneuvering, in Cambridge over the way universities conduct their DNA research, and in the academic community over charges of conflict of interest and exploitation of DNA...
Other critics in the academic community and elsewhere fear exploitation of recombinant DNA research for profit. George S. Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus, mentioned a recent court ruling allowing researchers--whether affiliated with academic institutions or industry--to patent any new micro-organisms they develop. The pharmaceutical industry in...
Wald and Jonathan King, assistant professor of biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, also fear academic exploitation of DNA research. Wald says that some "pioneers" of recombinant DNA research are also on the boards of corporations that wish to use the fruits of such research to develop new products...
These arguments have persuaded many people that national legislation is needed to prevent exploitation of recombinant DNA research and to lessen the possibility of damage. The existing NIH guidelines apply only to researchers who use government grants to fund their experiments. Private industry can conduct recombinant' DNA experiments with no...