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“... a cleverly constructed tract of anti-intellectual propaganda masquerading as scholarship. Among books promoted as serious intellectual statements by important thinkers, I don’t think I have ever read a shoddier work.” — The late paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould on Jeremy Rifkin’s Algeny, in the January 1985 issue of Discover
“Mr. Rifkin’s scientific acumen is nil, and his scare scenarios are pure fantasy.” — Dr. Henry I. Miller, former chief biotechnology policy coordinator for the Food and Drug Administration, in The New York Times
“Who is this Rifkin, and what are his credentials? He has a long history of opposing things, but as to credentials, he has none ... Rifkin’s scenario of disaster from an unleashed new organism is groundless. Genetic engineering is an important new technology. It is time to thank Jeremy Rifkin for his interest and show him the door The only danger to humanity lies in continuing to listen to Rifkin.” — Los Angeles Times editorial
“In the America Rifkin envisions, beef cattle and capitalism are banished, the buffalo roam, the deer and the antelope play and Americans eat peas and corn bread in poverty but in solidarity with their Third World brothers.” — From a Houston Chronicle book review of Foundation on Economic Trends founder Jeremy Rifkin's Beyond Beef
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