Information Hazards in Biotechnology

Information Hazards

Information hazards are risks that arise from the dissemination or the potential dissemination of true information that may cause harm or enable some agent to cause harm. Such hazards are often subtler than direct physical threats, and, as a consequence, are easily overlooked. They can, however, be important. This paper surveys the terrain and proposes a taxonomy.

The National Center for Biotechnology Information.

An overview of biotechnology information resources.

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Regulating Environmental and Safety Hazards of Agricultural Biotechnology for a Sustainable World

Biotechnology and the Political Ecology of Information in India

In today’s debates on transgenic, or genetically modified (GM), crops for third world farmers, some of the most diverse positions have come from the third world itself. For instance, Indian physicist-cum-activist Vandana Shiva is one of the world’s most potent opponents of GM crops, while Kenyan biologist Florence Wambugu is a leading proponent (and practitioner) of crop genetic modification an...