id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt istl-2087 Biotech: the Counterculture Origins of an Industry [Review] .html text/html 673 31 50 The technologies discussed are the roots of our current technologies, but the conflicts that shaped the early industry are still affecting science today, especially issues of government funding, anti-science public opinion, and corporate control of research. The heyday of post-war fundamental research funding, when scientists controlled the research agenda with public money, was eventually followed by calls for either voluntary or mandated restrictions on research the public viewed as dangerous, and the book ends with the introduction of private corporate laboratories. cache/istl-2087.html txt/istl-2087.txt