Turning Point Project
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Quotes
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“Technology should be assumed guilty until proven innocent.” — Turning Point board member (and ad copywriter) and International Forum on Globalization president Jerry Mander -- yes, that’s his real name
“Although [the Turning Point Project ads] talk of freedom and democracy, their key demand is that individuals be prevented from getting what they want--that governments be free, nay encouraged, to deny individuals the right to drive cars, work in offices, eat cheeseburgers, and watch satellite TV.” — M.I.T. economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, writing in Slate Magazine on November 23, 1999
“This is pretty much the standard anti-technology, anti-markets, anti-individual-freedom ranting by the usual suspects -- the spoiled rich children of all ages, confident that they and only they know the right way to live and that all change not under their political control is bad. They're no good at inventing things and no good at creating wealth -- but, boy, are they full of convictions about how the rest of us ought to live and what technologies ought to be ‘allowed.’” — Noted open-source computer software expert Eric Raymond, responding to a Turning Point Project advertisement -- Salon.com, September 20, 2000
“As part of an activist organization called the Turning Point Project, the Sierra Club took out full-page newspaper ads claiming that ‘biotechnology equals hunger’…. That kind of charge is not only inflammatory, it’s uninformed and remarkably shortsighted.” — University of Georgia biologist Barry Palevitz, writing in The Scientist, April 29, 2002
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