Comments on: HOW YOU GONNA KEEP ‘EM ON THE PHARM? http://hybridvigor.org/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/ Improving decisions and outcomes through collaboration and deliberation Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:48:07 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Krys Cail http://hybridvigor.org/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/comment-page-1/#comment-572 Krys Cail Tue, 17 Apr 2007 02:34:30 +0000 http://hybridvigor.net/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/#comment-572 Ordered the book, but it has not yet arrived... I guess the need for OTA has been pretty clear to me for years; still more so in the age of biotechnology. But, reading Lawrence Lessig can convince one that even the non-self-replicating tech stuff is worth a certain degree of public-minded scrutiny. Did you see that Hillary Clinton, has decided that reinstituting OTA is one of her 10 Points for governmental reform? It's reported here: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2007/04/hillarys_10point_reform_plan.php#comments Ordered the book, but it has not yet arrived… I guess the need for OTA has been pretty clear to me for years; still more so in the age of biotechnology. But, reading Lawrence Lessig can convince one that even the non-self-replicating tech stuff is worth a certain degree of public-minded scrutiny.

Did you see that Hillary Clinton, has decided that reinstituting OTA is one of her 10 Points for governmental reform? It’s reported here: http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dailypolitics/2007/04/hillarys_10point_reform_plan.php#comments

]]> By: Denise Caruso http://hybridvigor.org/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/comment-page-1/#comment-543 Denise Caruso Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:57:33 +0000 http://hybridvigor.net/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/#comment-543 Thanks to both of you for your very kind comments, and I hope you'll spread the word about the blog. I haven't been very rigorous about keeping it updated but of course, a larger audience is great incentive! Kris, you are dead right about the late lamented OTA. In fact, the conclusion of my book, <a rel="nofollow" href="http://hybridvigor.net/" rel="nofollow"></a><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Intervention-Confronting-Genetic-Engineering-Biotech/dp/0615135536" rel="nofollow"><em>Intervention </em></a>(which the NYT won't let me mention for fear of self-promotion), is all about how we need a new OTA for biological policy. I very cleverly called it BIOTA. ;) Thanks to both of you for your very kind comments, and I hope you’ll spread the word about the blog. I haven’t been very rigorous about keeping it updated but of course, a larger audience is great incentive!

Kris, you are dead right about the late lamented OTA. In fact, the conclusion of my book, Intervention (which the NYT won’t let me mention for fear of self-promotion), is all about how we need a new OTA for biological policy.

I very cleverly called it BIOTA. ;)

]]> By: Krys Cail http://hybridvigor.org/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/comment-page-1/#comment-538 Krys Cail Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:14:04 +0000 http://hybridvigor.net/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/#comment-538 My NY Times "Agriculture" newstracker brought your article into my email inbox today-- it was great to read your article, and I was thrilled to be able to start following the trail back from your byline to Hybrid Vigor's website and more information about your work. I am very, very interested in what you are doing, and excited to have come across all of these new resources. This is the work that the US Office of Technology Assessment should be doing.... if it had not been disbanded years ago... how wonderful that you have found funding to carry on this essential function! Your blog has earned a spot in my toolbar bookmarks folder already-- and I look forward to reading more. My NY Times “Agriculture” newstracker brought your article into my email inbox today– it was great to read your article, and I was thrilled to be able to start following the trail back from your byline to Hybrid Vigor’s website and more information about your work. I am very, very interested in what you are doing, and excited to have come across all of these new resources.

This is the work that the US Office of Technology Assessment should be doing…. if it had not been disbanded years ago… how wonderful that you have found funding to carry on this essential function! Your blog has earned a spot in my toolbar bookmarks folder already– and I look forward to reading more.

]]> By: Sylvia S Tognetti http://hybridvigor.org/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/comment-page-1/#comment-484 Sylvia S Tognetti Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:50:15 +0000 http://hybridvigor.net/2007/04/08/how-you-gonna-keep-em-on-the-pharm/#comment-484 I blogged about and linked to your NYT article at The Post-Normal Times (<a href="http://www.postnormaltimes.net/blog/archives/2007/04/postnormal_crop.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Also, after a commenter let me know about this blog, blogrolled it. Delighted to find another blog with a similar perspective, and I look forward to reading more. I blogged about and linked to your NYT article at The Post-Normal Times (here. Also, after a commenter let me know about this blog, blogrolled it. Delighted to find another blog with a similar perspective, and I look forward to reading more.

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