[lbo-talk] re: Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null

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Thu Mar 18 22:08:05 PST 2004


----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 9:51 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] re: Doug Henwood's Critique of Gary Null

I don't have numbers. You can look at the etcgroup web site, for example.

http://www.etcgroup.org/article.asp?newsid=353

The idea is that a patent is cheap and the payoff can be great. So, bioprospecting is big business.

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Try these folks too, Doug. They might be able to give you some numbers.

http://www.ethnopharmacology.org/

If I recall correctly it was the bioprospecting of Shaman Pharmaceuticals --which had DMT enthusiast and anarchist Terence McKenna's brother Dennis -impeccable science credentials- on the board -- that sparked popular consciousness in the US on the issue in the early nineties.

Ian



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