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	The My Hero Project - Barry CommonerCommoner
		Barry Commoner was born in 1917, in Brooklyn, NY were he was interested science and plants.
		Barry Commoner did many things in his life for one he realized the problems caused by nuclear activities and its influences on the environment and humans.
		Commoner did all of his research on the planet he realized something horrible, unless people did not help make the world a better place it would be unsuitable for human life in several years.
	www.myhero.com /myhero/heroprint.asp?hero=Commoner (362 words)

	on Barry Commoner
		Commoner's fight throughout the 1960's demanding that protein, not DNA, was the genetic material and Commoner's participation in events like Biodevastation protests as suggestive evidence that he's a) got a history of wrong science, and b) an activist and not a scientist when it comes to this issue.
		Commoner says there is evidence that biotechnology is built on a shaky foundation, and may produce plants and animals that unwittingly endanger human health and the environment.
		Commoner first put forward his view that DNA is not the only genetic material in the 1960s, in articles published in the British journal Nature - the same journal that carried the first report of the structure of DNA and last year published a publicly funded project's version of the human genome.
	www.gene.ch /gentech/2002/Mar/msg00024.html (4303 words)

	The Search for Energy Alternatives
		Barry Commoner, 71, is founder of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College of the City University of New York.
		Commoner is a well known writer and lecturer on the relationship between environmental and energy problems and economic and political issues.
		Commoner's research activities at the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems include studies of the occurrence of carcinogens in the environment, methods of reorganizing agriculture that foster the production of both food and fuel and protect the environment; new energy- and cost-saving conservation systems for urban housing; and alternative methods of municipal waste disposal.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1989/01/interview-commoner.html (5231 words)

	Canada Pays for Free Trade
		Commoner notes that electricity generation is based primarily on the burning of fossil fuels, which produces a host of noxious emissions, including sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides.
		Commoner explains how the cost-benefit approach is used by business and, in the case of the Reagan and Bush administrations, the government to justify the continued poisoning of the ecosphere.
		Commoner is sober in his outlook, but he communicates a guardedly optimistic view based on certain precedents, most recently the revolutions in Eastern Europe.
	multinationalmonitor.org /hyper/issues/1990/05/review.html (1284 words)

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		Commoner continued to publish work on proteins and free radicals for 20 years, but in the early 1950s, something happened that caught his attention and turned his interest to larger questions.
		Commoner often acknowledged the important role of an active citizenry: "Nor is the collaboration between scientist and citizen a one-way street.
		Thus in 1965 Commoner and his colleagues warned us that risk assessments are political in nature, not merely scientific, and that many scientists overstep the bounds of scientific legitimacy and try to impose their (or their employer's) political decisions and views upon the public, using science as a screen.
	www.rachel.org /bulletin/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=575 (1951 words)

	Reason Magazine - Is Biologist Barry Commoner a Mutant?
		According to Commoner, alternative splicing contradicts what biologists often call the Central Dogma in which a DNA gene is transcribed into messenger RNA (mRNA) that is then translated into a string of amino acids that folds to form proteins.
		Commoner wants to claim that researchers have ignored what he believes is the crucial role that protein and RNA molecular "machines" play in expressing inheritable traits.
		Commoner begins his article by citing problems with gene-transfer experiments in animals and with cloning (in which no genes are transferred).
	www.reason.com /news/show/34756.html (1463 words)

	Barry Commoner Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Barry Commoner (born 1917) was a biologist who became an environmental activist, leading efforts to inform the general public about the many environmental dangers posed by various scientific advances and common practices.
		Barry Commoner was born in Brooklyn, New York, on May 28, 1917.
		In a directory of scientists published in 1984 Barry Commoner listed among his special concerns "alterations in the environment in relation to modern technology" and "the origins and significance of the environmental and energy crises"--realities which would not go away just because people for the moment chose to ignore them.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-barry-commoner/index.html (1051 words)

	Commoner to Deliver Keynote Speech at Idaho Conference on Health Care (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Commoner will discuss whether biological inheritance is reducible to the chemistry of the DNA molecule, or if biological inheritance, health and disease can be attributed to complex, whole living cells.
		Commoner is widely known as a writer and lecturer on the relationship between environmental and energy problems and public policy.
		Commoner’s research in basic science has included the discovery of free radicals (an unusual type of molecule) in living things and studies on the biochemistry of virus replication.
	www.isu.edu /pressrel/commonerhlth.html (666 words)

	RACHEL's Hazardous Waste News #196
		Commoner argues that the rise of the grass-roots environmental movement has shown the way: grass-roots groups have shown a willingness to take the hard road politically, to refuse to compromise with local polluters.
		Commoner is certainly not a Luddite seeking the abandonment of all modern amenities; but he argues that we must give up some modern technologies, returning to earlier ones, if we are to end our self-destructive war against nature.
		Commoner shows that even ecologically sound technologies can be misused and misapplied by individuals bent on maximizing short-term profits, so he argues that our systems for controlling technological choices must embrace social goals as well as the goals of individuals and corporations.
	www.ejnet.org /rachel/rhwn196.htm (1377 words)

	TIME.com: Paul Revere of Ecology -- Feb. 2, 1970 -- Page 1
		BARRY COMMONER is a professor with a class of millions—most of them real students, all of them deeply concerned about man's war against nature.
		In print and in person, Commoner's message is the same: the price of pollution could be the death of man. Though he is sometimes aggressive and even abrasive, he is endowed with a rare combination of political savvy, scientific soundness and the ability to excite people with his ideas.
		Commoner's efforts to make laymen think about science have irked some of his colleagues who think that a scientist's place is in the laboratory or at the ear of an important Government official.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,878180,00.html (763 words)

	Dioxin Report
		Commoner’s study overestimates both the amount of fuel burned at the Ames facility as well as the dioxin emission factor appropriate to the kind of combustion equipment and fuel blends used.
		Commoner reports that the United States inventory was largely based on an inventory developed by the U.S. EPA (1998) although CBNS added several classes absent in the U.S. EPA inventory: iron sintering plants, electric arc furnaces, coal-burning power plants and backyard trash burning.
		The stated objective of the Commoner study is to "test the efficacy of the HYSPLIT air transport model as a means of ranking the North American sources of airborne dioxin with respect to their contribution to the amount of dioxin deposited on ecologically vulnerable receptors in the Inuit territory, Nunavut" (p.
	www.city.ames.ia.us /ElectricWeb/dioxinreport.htm (7617 words)

	Barry Commoner (by L. Proyect)
		Last night I heard Barry Commoner speak on "The Economic Origins of the Environmental Crisis" at NYC's Brecht Forum.
		In his concluding remarks, Commoner raised the possibility that such problems can be eliminated if society gained control of the corporations, even though ownership remained in private hands.
		Commoner reminded me a bit of Michael Moore in his new movie "The Big One," who kept asking corporate spokesmen why they had to be so greedy.
	www.columbia.edu /~lnp3/mydocs/ecology/commoner.htm (992 words)

	Interview with Barry Commoner: A leading environmentalist reviews his long, contentious past and sets new directions ...
		In 1981 Commoner moved CBNS from Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., to Queens College in Flushing, N.Y., where the team he directs continues its research in conservation and ecological science.
		BARRY COMMONER: My entry into the environmental arena was through the issue that so dramatically--and destructively--demonstrates the link between science and social action: nuclear weapons.
		The U.S. Senate was a nest of cold-warriors and, according to common wisdom, was unlikely to ratify the treaty.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/Barry-Commoner23jun97.htm (3004 words)

	GENETIC ENGINEERING - FLYING BLIND
		Barry Commoner gave his fascinating answer in his banquet presentation at the annual forum of Beyond Pesticides.
		However, Dr. Commoner pointed out that a straight, unfolded string of amino acids is essentially "dead." Then, he squeezed his colored rope to have us see visually that any protein can form into many different shapes.
		Commoner pointed out that introducing foreign DNA from another species can be likened to a corporate takeover into a hostile environment.
	www.nutrition4health.org /nohanews/NNS00Commoner_GE.htm (833 words)

	UC Berkeley Center for Forestry: Horace Lecture
		However, Barry Commoner's understanding of these relationships was not achieved in one sudden intuitive jump, but rather is the outcome of the inexorable logic which leads the individual with an inquiring mind to gain an understanding of many things in the effort to gain a full mastery of some one area.
		Indeed, Dr. Commoner's career is striking evidence in support of the often-debated proposition that the best education for the future generalist is through intensive specialization.
		As Director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems, Dr. Commoner is directing far-ranging studies of the origins and significance of alterations in the environment, especially as related to modern technology, and of fertilization and the current status of the nitrogen cycle.
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /forestry/lectures/albright/1973commoner.html (6514 words)

	New Report Challenges Fundamentals of Genetics
		But Dr. Commoner notes that under the influence of specialized proteins that carry out "alternative splicing," a single gene can give rise to a variety of different proteins, resulting in more than a single inherited trait per gene.
		Commoner's research sounds a public alarm concerning the processes by which agricultural biotechnology companies genetically modify food crops.
		Commoner cites a number of recent studies that have broken the DNA gene's exclusive franchise on the molecular explanation of inheritance.
	www.purewatergazette.net /commoner.htm (482 words)

	Barry Commoner
		Among his views, Commoner believes that industrial methods, especially those involving fossil fuels, are causing environmental pollution.
		Commoner also believes that it is pointless to try to undo the environmental damage we have caused; this is a losing battle.
		Commoner combined his socialist and environmental beliefs in a brief Citizen's Party presidential campaign in 1980.
	library.thinkquest.org /26026/People/barry_commoner.html (664 words)

	PCC Natural Markets : Sound Consumer : Central Theory for Biotech is Flawed
		Commoner argues that the central scientific philosophy used to justify genetic engineering is wrong.
		In 1958, Francis Crick, one of the discoverers of the DNA double helix, enshrined the "Central Dogma" of molecular biology: that DNA genes are in total control of inheritance in all forms of life.
		Commoner points to the massive $3 billion Human Genome Project, begun in 1990, for evidence.
	www.pccnaturalmarkets.com /sc/0205/sc0205-biotech.html (662 words)

	GRAIN \| Seedling \| 2003 \| Unravelling the DNA myth
		In the 1950s, Commoner was heavily involved in the debates on nuclear weapons, and in the 1960s, he became involved in other environmental issues including pollution and energy sources.
		Barry Commoner is the author of nine books and has served on numerous advisory and editorial boards.
		B Commoner, “Failure of the WatsonCrick theory as a chemical explanation of inheritance”.
	www.grain.org /seedling/?id=240 (4286 words)

	Brainstorms: Commoner and DNA information content
		Commoner first argues that the central dogma of molecular biology is false.
		Commoner notes the fallacy in this reasoning as the results show only 30,000 human genes, of which 99 % are similar to the ones of a mouse.
		Commoner mentions "alternative splicing", which is a way for one single gene to produce many different proteins, by spliceosomes reorganizing the RNA structure.
	www.iscid.org /boards/ubb-get_topic-f-6-t-000020.html (547 words)

	The Spurious Foundation of Genetic Engineering
		To some degree the theory has been protected from criticism by a device more common to religion than science; dissent, or merely the discovery of a discordant fact, is a punishable offense, a heresy that might easily lead to professional ostracism.
		Much of this bias can be attributed to institutional inertia, a failure of rigor, but there are other, more insidious, reasons why molecular geneticists might be satisfied with the status quo; the central dogma has given them such a satisfying, seductively simplistic explanation of heredity that it seemed sacrilegious to entertain doubts.
		Barry Commoner is senior scientist at the Center for Biology of Natural Systems at Queen's College, City University of New York where he directs the Critical Genetics Project.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0209-01.htm (5114 words)

	Barry Commoner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His official running mate was La Donna Harris, although she was replaced on the ballot in Ohio by Wretha Hanson.
		After his unsuccessful bid for President, Commoner returned to New York City, and became the director of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems at Queens College.
		One of Commoner's lasting legacies is his four laws of ecology, as written in The Closing Circle in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barry_Commoner (426 words)

	TCS Daily - Commoner's Cause
		These features do not distinguish Barry Commoner, whose vision of science is as static and risk-averse as his view of the environment.
		Among these are the production of recombinant protein hormones like insulin and erythropoietin, both of which are prohibitively expensive to isolate from natural sources, as well as gene product-targeted drugs such as the HIV protease inhibitors and the new anticancer drug Gleevec.
		Commoner has always been anxious about what we eat (he helped popularize the notion that hamburgers cause cancer), and GM food represents a special worry: it threatens both the world and his worldview.
	www.tcsdaily.com /Article.aspx?id=020702A (803 words)

	Barry COMMONER
		For this purpose, I propose to take advantage of the considerable experience, especially in the United States, with the 20-year effort to achieve a substantial improvement in environmental quality.
		With this linkage established, it becomes possible to define ethical precepts that foster, harmoniously, both environmental quality and economic development and can therefore serve as a guide to sustainable development.
		This is typical of the overall results of the massive effort to reduce pollution levels in the United States.
	www.czp.cuni.cz /values/citanka/dobris/barry_commoner.htm (2260 words)

	St. Louis Walk of Fame - Barry Commoner
		Barry Commoner joined the faculty of Washington University in St. Louis in 1947.
		Alarmed in the early 1950s by the health risks posed by atomic testing, Commoner helped found the St. Louis Committee for Nuclear Information.
		The author of nine books and the 1980 Citizens’ Party presidential candidate, Barry Commoner, a pioneer in the creation of the environmental movement, was termed the "Paul Revere of Ecology."
	www.stlouiswalkoffame.org /inductees/barry-commoner.html (120 words)

	TIME.com: Learning the Three Es -- May 31, 1976 -- Page 1
		It was also Commoner who first suggested—in his 1971 bestseller The Closing Circle—that U.S. industry be restructured to conform to ecology's unbending laws.
		Commoner shows how the environment is harmed by the industries that use the most energy—petrochemicals, transportation, agriculture.
		Since the money cannot come from internal profits — which Commoner, at least, claims have dropped sharply — it has to come from banks and other investors who are already pinched for capital.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,947689,00.html (738 words)

	Bestselling author Michael Fumento reports: "Communism and the Environment."
		With communism on the "ash heap of history," in the words of former President Reagan, there are those who nonetheless argue that capitalism, too, must give way if the environment is to be saved.
		Barry Commoner thinks cleanliness is close to godlessness — or communism in any case.
		Barry Commoner, one of the nation's most influential environmentalists, has written, "The origin of the environmental crisis can be traced back to the capitalist precept that the choice of production technology is to be governed solely by private interest in profit maximization."
	www.fumento.com /commoner.html (1623 words)

	Citizens Party (United States) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was formed on 5/15/1979 in Washington DC by Barry Commoner, who wanted to gather under one umbrella political organization all the environmentalist and liberal groups which were unsatisfied with President Carter’s moderate administration.
		Barry Commoner, a professor of environmental science, was the head of the Center for the Biology of Natural Systems in St. Louis and editor of Science Illustrated magazine.
		Commoner clearly stated repeatedly that socialism for parts of the economy other than essential infrastructure was a disastrous idea.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Citizens_Party_(United_States) (1062 words)

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