> Sclar does not condemn privatization, but shows it has.. overwhelming deficiencies. One of his most compelling themes is that the standard model used in support of privatization, which assumes contracting for a simple product in a competitive market, is.. inapplicable to the public sector.. public services are complex.. to monitor its implementation are a far cry from buying a good or simple service in a spot market..
https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/none-by-elliott-d-sclar/
#民営化 #Privatization #EdwardHerman #ElliotSclar

> Carson was able to attack the deeper agenda... "poisoning us first, then policing the result." .. Carson's main focus was on the long-term and ecological effects of heavy chemical use. ... basic questions frightened the industry and it struck back wildly, with emotional cries... as well as crude efforts at censorship ... getting three of five advertisers to withdraw from sponsoring the CBS report,.. .
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk2.htm
#RachelCarson #silentspring #EdwardHerman #massmedia #industry

> ... the industry finds out in advance about challenging programs and causes them to be altered or cancelled, frequently by threatening a libel suit.
[An] example was Monsanto's successful effort in 1997 to quash the showing on a Fox TV station of the Akre-Wilson program on some problematic features of Monsanto's recombinant bovine growth hormone rBGH.
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk2.htm
#JunkScience #TheCorporation #EdwardHerman #Monsanto #GMO #rbgh #chemicalindustry #regulatorycapture

> Corporate junk science plays an extremely important role in the public relations and regulatory strategies... It aims, first, to reassure the public that pesticides and other chemicals are not a public health threat and are essential to economic growth and welfare. But it is also designed to create enough confusion and uncertainty among legislators and regulators,... preserve the industry's freedom to...
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk2.htm
#EdwardHerman #JunkScience #TheCorporation #massmedia

> As Peter Montague says, “Putting genetically-engineered plants and animals into the natural environment is nothing more than a crap shoot—one with potential consequences far greater than Monsanto’s previous calamitous experiments, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and Agent Orange” (October, 29, 1998). Harvard geneticist Richard Lewontin says...
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk3.htm
#PeterMontague #GMO #PCBs #RichardLewontin #AgentOrange #Monsanto #EdwardHerman #JunkScience #pesticides #ScienceWars

> Following the furor over Silent Spring in the early 1960s, there was no slackening in the production and use of pesticides....intensity of application per acre of farmland more than doubled, pesticide use in households and home lawn care skyrocketed. Some poisons...were eventually banned, but others took their place... with known damaging effects on neurological and immune systems ...
- https://zcomm.org/wp-content/uploads/ScienceWars/junk3.htm
#RachelCarson #SilentSpring #EdwardHerman #JunkScience #pesticides #ScienceWars

Manufacturing Consent co-author #EdwardHerman #RIP

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/matt-taibbi-on-the-death-of-edward-herman-w511766