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Aniket Aga probes questions critical to our species: the vetting of authoritative knowledge of risks and benefits embedded in alternative technologies. The focus is state science-the mediating translator of knowledge to policy. He lays out the fundamental tension: "Scientific controversies exert unusual pressures on political institutions. Designed to arbitrate among competing interests, institutions of democracy find themselves in uncharted terrain when confronted with disputes over truth" (p. 237). His focus is India, the implications general and global: One thinks immediately of climate change and pandemics. The text analyses biotechnology through an examination of official approval or rejection of two agricultural crops developed by biotechnology: cotton and brinjal (baingan, eggplant, aubergine, Solanum melongena) and provision of authoritative knowledge on agricultural chemicals, from which the state has retreated. State science became globally contentious when the genomics revolution in biology raised the stakes: molecular building blocks of life became increasingly amenable to alteration and rearrangement to modify or create novel organisms (Doudna & Steinberg, 2017). Natio

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Author

Ronald J. Herring

Publisher

Wiley

Published

2023

Language

EN

Field

Agricultural and Biological Sciences (Life Sciences)