bOING bOING pal and Small Times nanotechnology news editor Howard Lovy on Greenpeace’s new report on nanotechnology:
“Greenpeace’s just-released report on nanotechnology is vintage advocacy-group treatment of scientific research: Grab the available facts, then make them conform to your predetermined conclusion. That, after all, is what advocacy groups do. And most intelligent readers are able to keep that in mind when they come across any “study” that comes out of an organization that filters information through its preset worldview. It’s true for Greenpeace, the National Rifle Association or the Save the Bog Turtle Foundation. That’s why I was quite surprised at the reaction of the NanoBusiness Alliance to this report.”