Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Bio-Defense Threatens America - Softcover

King, Kenneth

 
9781605982687: Germs Gone Wild: How the Unchecked Development of Domestic Bio-Defense Threatens America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1605982687 ISBN 13: 9781605982687
Verlag: Pegasus, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Battling a new generation of corporate giants and uncovering threats right in our own backyard, Kenneth King’s Germs Gone Wild reveals the massive expansion of America's bio-defense research labs and the culture of deception surrounding hundreds of facilities that have opened since 9/11.

King experienced the menace of bio-defense research firsthand when local government and business leaders tried to lure a new facility to his hometown in Kentucky. Researching the safety claims, he not only found many of them to be completely false, but was also horrified by the lack of oversight and the recklessness with which these labs genetically modified pathogens like smallpox, Ebola, and influenza without a care for what happened to the public if there was ever a “leak.”

And yet the greed that drove the development of these labs has effectively counteracted any cautionary checks by the government and universities. All have been seduced by the economic gains and corporate stipends that come with compliance and turning a blind eye. But now, the reality of these labs and the germs they manipulate will finally be brought to light, as King examines the controversies surrounding plants from Maryland to Boston and Utah, to the Department of Homeland Security’s dubious National Bio-and-Agro-Facility (NBAF) project, and the precautions―or lack thereof―being taken to protect us all from a deadly pandemic.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Kenneth King holds a Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska and a JD from Vanderbilt School of law. King teaches at Western Kentucky University.

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Verlag
Pegasus
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1605982687
ISBN 13 
9781605982687
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516
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