Word: rifkin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Overblown press stories and Rifkin's rhetoric about the two cases have raised the specter of re-engineered microbes escaping into the environment with dire consequences. But most scientists are convinced that neither the Biologics viral vaccine nor the A.G.S. bacteria pose any threat to man, beast or plant...
Enter Jeremy Rifkin, who with several allies filed suit in a federal court, charging that NIH, in granting its approval, had failed to prepare environmental-impact statements. At hearings conducted by Federal Judge John Sirica, Rifkin and a few scientists who supported his view pointed to the troubles caused in the U.S. by the introduction of foreign organisms...
...Still, Rifkin won the day. In May 1984 Judge Sirica issued an injunction against the Tulelake test on the ground that NIH had not followed the required procedure in granting its approval...
...regulatory agencies works out of a cluttered three-room office in downtown Washington. His pretentiously named Foundation on Economic Trends--cited without further explanation in nearly every story about the biotechnology industry--consists solely of him, an assistant and a part-time secretary. "We have one lawyer," boasts Jeremy Rifkin, "but he does his own typing." Yet Rifkin, 41, has more than compensated for his lack of manpower by using his fertile imagination, boundless energy and shrewd tactics to tie the biotechnology industry in knots. Even the General Accounting Office is impressed; it concluded in a report last month that...
...common threads run through Rifkin's peripatetic career, they are energy and anti-Establishment fervor. As an economics major at the University of Pennsylvania, he was an outspoken critic of the Viet Nam War. In the 1970s he founded and led the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in efforts to finance "revolutionary alternatives" to the 1976 Bicentennial celebration, which he considered to be too commercialized. By 1977 Rifkin had become embroiled in the growing controversy over the new recombinant-DNA technology and was ready to hit full stride. In his book Who Should Play God, published that year, he naively expressed concern...