The Gary Null Show - GMO Deception with Professor Sheldon Krimsky - 07/11/14

The deceptions behind GMOs  -- why food and chemical companies and government agencies are putting families and the environment at risk

Prof. Sheldon Krimsky is the Lenore Stern Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Tufts University and an adjunct at Tufts School of Medicine’s Public Health and Community Medicine department.

His research has focused on the linkages between science/technology, ethics  and public policy, with an emphasis on the bioethics of genetic engineering. Professor Krimsky is Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and served on the National Institutes of Health's Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee from 1978-1981 and has been a consultant to the Presidential Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment.  From 1988-1992,  he chaired the Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility for the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Currently Prof. Krimsky serves on the Board of Directors for the Council for Responsible Genetics

He has authored 13 books and over 190 papers and reviews have appeared in: JAMA, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, JAMA Internal Medicine, American Journal of Bioethics, American Scientist, and Science. His most recent book is  “The GMO Deception:  What you Need to Know About the Food, Corporations and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and the Environment at Risk” co-written with Jeremy Gruber and a forward by Ralph Nader.

His early book Genetic Alchemy was one of the first books to raise issues about the genetic engineering back in 1982.  He holds a bachelors and masters degrees in physics from Brooklyn College and Purdue University respectively, and an additional masters and doctorate in philosophy from Boston University.