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GM WATCH daily listhttp://www.gmwatch.org------http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8655The Threat to Reason: How the Enlightenment Was Hijacked and How We Can Reclaim ItBy Dan HindVerso, 2007Hardback, 224 pages, RRP GBP14.99, available from www.amazon.com/co.ukReview by Those who engage in environmental activism will be all too familiar with being dismissed as 'Luddites', 'anti-science', and 'irrational'. One of the shrillest promoters of such a view is the pro-GM British peer Lord Dick Taverne. In his book, The March of Unreason, he claims that 'the Enlightenment' is in danger of unravelling under the onslaught of 'eco-fundamentalism'. Taverne is backed by a powerful

lobby of media commentators, politicians, and intellectuals all too ready to assert that Western science and rationality are under threat from forces of darkness as diverse as religious believers, postmodernists, organic farmers, New Agers and the practitioners of any and every kind of alternative medicine.The gist of Dan Hind's book The Threat to Reason is that there's a problem with such attempts to defend the truth: they aren't true. Hind takes to task a group of prominent commentators who have exaggerated the threat posed by the so-called forces of unreason. These commentators, says Hind, distract us from much more serious threats to an open democratic society.The chief threats to reason, according to Hind, are not foreign extremists or homeopaths: they reside in our state and corporate institutions. They manipulate information to promote neoliberal market values and to maintain a permanent War on

Terror, which Hind terms a 'well-organized fraud' and a 'piece of enchantment'. Their practices have operated against the public interest and have provided security only to the richest people, who have benefited from a massive transfer of wealth. The rest of the public are fed a carefully prepared diet of lies that prevents them from making informed decisions about the direction society should take. Read more: http://www.gmwatch.org/archive2.asp?arcid=8655

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