Growing Up Happy: Captain Kangaroo Tells Yesterday's Children How to Nuture Their Own

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Growing Up Happy: Captain Kangaroo Tells Yesterday's Children How to Nuture Their Own
Bob Keeshan
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Growing Up Happy: Captain Kangaroo Tells Yesterday's Children How To Nuture Their Own
Bob Keeshan
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Stan Goff combines a spellbinding, first-person account of military maneuvers with a radical interpretation of American foreign policy. Drawing on his Delta Force and Army Ranger experiences, which took him from the invasions of Panama and Haiti to army training grounds in Colombia and South Korea, he depicts the new "American Empire" as over-reliant on technology, ignorant of the lessons of history, and backward in the stereotyping of other countries.

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Screaming at the choir.......2006-08-01

It was hard to choose a rating for this review, so consider my three stars more of a two-to-four rating. Goff's book, "Full Spectrum Disorder", is all over the place, swinging punches at capitalism, imperialism, liberalism, the U.S. military and many token "liberal" or "progressive" issues. He lands a few punches, but much of it reads like wild swinging, and there is little provided to back up his assertions. For this reason, he's likely to reduce the receptivity of any audience except those that already agree with him.

In some ways this works. Goff's primary message seems to be directed at what he believes will be a liberal or progressive revolutionary vanguard. He leaves little room for misunderstanding this message in the last lines of his epilogue: "We are all Palestinian now. When in Palestine, we do what Palestinians do. We learn the lesson of the rocks. Intifada."

The language of violent revolution is unsettling to most self-described liberals, and it is this weak stomach for the grittier realities of global power that Goff is trying to beat out of what might be called the peace-loving, tree-hugging, hippy heart that is driving progressive ideology today. Having lived and worked in the West Bank, I can't subscribe to his belief in the value of violent resistance. I very much appreciate, however, his plea to liberals to drop their holier-than-thou disdain for anything associated with the U.S. military and to recognize the centrality of violence throughout the world today.

Liberals tend to dismiss war and warriors as blood-thirsty or blindly chauvinistic, a characterization that is both inaccurate and - for liberal ideology - self-defeating. In this sense, Goff's challenge to the liberal movement to better engage with the U.S. military is a rare but much-needed message.

If you have ever been called a hippy or a wacky, fuzzy-headed liberal, read this book precisely for this message.

But aside from this one very important message with a very specific intended audience, this book is too scattered to make any solid points. His accusations and assertions are pretty far-reaching, and he fails to properly back them up. He states up front that this book is primarily intended to "shake people up", but he kind of leaves the reader hanging on to his shirt-tails as he bounces around.

As someone who probably agrees with his underlying ideas more than the majority of his readers, I was disappointed. There is certainly value in this book, but with so many interesting books out there, this one is probably worth skipping.

Valuable for specific reasons.......2006-01-19

In fairness, Goff's writings should be criticized in the appropriate context: they are anecdote laden, rantish, autobographical, yet analytical and provisionally authoritative.

Goff is not uncomfortable deploying simile, metaphor, or limited allegory to connect his personal experiences to the conceptual and/or assumptive framework he offers. A basic premise of his writing is his commitment to engage a world of competing (or impoverished) perspective on global realities, offering clarifications or counter-points to what he regards as conventional and/or largely inadequate wisdom.

That being said, he offers no "smoking gun" critiques of world affairs. I'm not sure that he means to; it's enough that he has been there and seen what needs to be seen; he's not trying to reify or vindicate his point of view, just to provide a meaningful contrast to those views that over-saturate the public imagination. His objective seems to be the "sobering" of the naive and jingoist assumptions that Americans cling to, but too often take for granted.

In other words, he's not trying to convert anyone; he's "playing Cassandra" as Camus said, holding up the mirror to the nation he served and risked his life for, aparently banking on the hope that we'll demonstrate the existence of a national conscience. If in reading his work, you feel disturbed and spurred to a greater degree of deliberation about the narratives you recieve from day-to-day, then his work has had the intended effect.

In this respect, he's just doing his duty. Little more, little less.

It strikes me as a bit absurd that other reviewers would place such liberal import on his political sympathies, as if to imply that these might somehow eclipse the over-all body of points, impressions, and conjectures Goff puts on the table. Goff himself is a bit circumspect (at times, outright cagey) about his personal politics. At others he's in your face about them. I'm not clear on what standard of political objectivity is in vogue with the readers out there, but we swim in a sea of ideology-laden "facts". Let's grow up and move on.

If you're worried about the integrity of Goff's ideological proclivities, go befriend a current or former member of special forces. See what his anecdotes and opinions do to your impeccable clinicism and analytical detatchment. Maybe your "objectivity" is more of an obstacle to your own understanding than you've presumed.

Lost Opportunity.......2005-08-21

This book is by a guy who's been in several branches of Special Forces, and the few pages it devotes to his experiences are interesting. Unfortunately, the majority of the book is devoted to a political rant that sounds like that of a hysterical teenager who joined the military and never had a chance to outgrow his junior-high revolution lingo. The basic argument is that "Imperialism," which is poorly defined, will and should be defeated by "populist movements," which depending on what page you're on can refer to Communists, Arab dictatorships, repressive military regimes, or anyone else who's not the U.S. or U.K. The concept that anything, even anarchy, repression, or totalitariansm is preferable because the U.S. has made mistakes like the Iraq war is pretty ridiculous, and not much of a solution to anything. Workers of the world, save your cash.

Stunning view of the US military.......2005-07-30

This is a hard-hitting critique of recent US foreign policy. Goff, who used to be a soldier in Army Special Operations, analyses the US state's wars in Korea, Vietnam, Latin America, Somalia, Haiti and Iraq.

In Korea, General MacArthur ordered his forces to "destroy every means of communication, every installation, factory, city and village from the front line to the Yalu River." General Curtis LeMay boasted, "We burned down just about every city in North and South Korea both, and ... we killed off over a million civilian Koreans and drove several million more from their homes." The USAF dropped more bombs on Korea than on all Europe in all of World War Two and dropped 7.8 million gallons of napalm. US forces killed about four million Koreans, as against `only' three million Vietnamese people.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) faced huge problems. The US state maintained its punitive sanctions. Russia cut its oil supplies by 90%. In 1995, the country suffered the worst floods for a century, which swept away more than 400,000 hectares of prime farmland just before harvest time and made five million people homeless. In 1996, there were more floods and in 1997 a severe drought destroyed 70% of the country's corn. In 2000-01, the country suffered the worst drought in its history.

Despite all these hardships, the DPRK honoured its commitment under the 1994 Agreement with the USA to suspend its plutonium production facilities. The US state, on the other hand, broke its promises by failing to supply the promised alternative energy sources, failing to normalise relations and targeting the DPRK with nuclear weapons. The DPRK had warned that if the USA reneged, it would restart its nuclear power programme. In 2002, Bush named the DPRK as a target in its Nuclear Posture Review. The DPRK then stated that it had the right to develop nuclear weapons in self-defence. (The USA has had nuclear weapons in South Korea since 1958).

Goff also has some brilliant insights into how the American working class can defeat this imperial and anti-American US state. "The most important quality in a leader is the aggressive tenacity that never loses sight of the mission, combined with the creativity to achieve it." He attacks the `left' for "their utter lack of aggression and their constant moral hand-wringing ... they only know how to mobilize fear that demoralizes people, instead of mobilizing rage that drives through fear and seizes the initiative."

Don't Be Fooled.......2005-05-20

Contrary to the subtitle, this is NOT a book about the military. This is a book about government policy (so it occasionally discusses how the military is used in pursuit of policy).

Mr Goff is an admitted socialist and this book is an attempt to convince readers that socialism is a much more responsible form of government. His principle argument is that captialism's reliance on economic expansion will inevitably exhaust all natural resources leading to collapse. In this he is probably right. However, he argues that socialism is the cure to this problem. One look at the environmental wasteland of Eastern Europe disproves this, so he ignores it. He claims the reason that the Soviet Union collapsed is that it didn't have enough third-world neighbors to exploit--neglecting the fact that Russia has incredible amounts of natural resources right at home that they couldn't exploit because of their intrinsic flaws.

Reading this book reminds me of Daman Wayans' character on "In Living Color," who [mis]used big words to make himself sound more knowledgable. However, using impressive vocabulary can't hide the fact that he makes many accusations which he fails to support and states as fact that which needs to be proved by argument.

Goff's disillusionment with American policy and the military's role in it is completely reasonable--he has participated in enough outrages to earn the right to be bitter. However, the conclusions he reaches as a result are at best unsupported by fact and at worst totally flawed.

If you're a liberal looking for more reasons to hate capitalism, and the U.S. in particular, you'll like this book (so long as you keep a dictionary handy to decipher words like "reification" and "epistimelogical"). If you're looking for a book about the use of military power in 4th-generation warfare, look elsewhere.

Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century

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Full Spectrum Disorder: The Military in the New American Century
Stan Goff
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The intent and uses of science are a continuing preoccupation, especially in public debates on issues such as new pharmaceuticals, cloning, stem cells, genetically modified foods, and assisted reproduction. Times of Triumph, Times of Doubt, written by the eminent geneticist and historian Elof Carlson, explores the moral foundations of science and their role in these hot button issues.

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The March of Science, for good or bad.......2006-12-16

The modern educational system in the United States does an extremely poor job of teaching the basic philosophies of science, or the scientific method. The scientific method says that you study a problem, make some assumptions, formulate a theory, use this theory to make predictions, and see if the predictions turn out to be stur. In evolution for example, Darwin and Wallace started this process. For some 170 years the process has continued with ever more developments in biology, science, medicine and more.

Yet people with no scientific training at all have assumed the right to prevent the best science we know from be taught in public schools, deliberately depriving our children of knowledge that might save them from AIDS, avian flu, or other plagues.

Other people have deliberately taken a scientific view to justify their own prejudices that lead to lynchings, the Holocaust and even more evil.

This is a fantastic book that examines science, history, and ethics. It is probably most helpful to young scientists, but would be more helpful to politicians, journalists, clergy and the like.

Provactive and well written.......2006-09-05

Times of Triumph, Time of Doubt is a well written book exploring how bad outcomes can occur even with the best of intentions. Dr. Carlson easy to read style which was evident in his previous books (The Unfit, Mendel's legacy) is continued in this work. The book a quick read, as I was able to finish this book within two days of starting it. The book has some interesting insights into the scientific process, and the case studies used are pertient but not inflammatory such that the ideas of science in society can be fully explored. This book may anger liberal (genetically modified foods) and conservative (stem cell research) zealots due to its neutrality in presenting the issues in clear and concise manner without politicizing the subject matter with an overt agenda, or reaching a conclusion to be consistent with a political philosophy. I feel it is an good read not only to those interested in science, but also reminds us how good moral people can committ autrocious acts.

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Bioethics for Scientists

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A dictionary definition of Bioethics is, 'the ethics, or moral principles and rules of conduct, of medical and biological research'. This book is an introductory text of just biological and not medical bioethics. It covers the ethics of experimentation, including genetic manipulation, in plants and animals; ethics and biodiversity, ethics and the environment.

There is increasing interest in bioethics - both in academia and by the media and the general public. Awareness of bioethics is incorporated into Biological / Environmental Science courses, plus the first dedicated modular courses on bioethics are starting up.

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Bioethics for Scientists provides an introduction to the ethics of modern life sciences and encompasses a wide range of environmental, social, scientific and medical issues. Subjects such as global warming, GM crops and the recent advances in genetics and cloning affect all areas of society. Scientists in all fields are frequently reminded of their own responsibilities, not just within their own profession but also to society. International experts provide in-depth discussion of these subjects with a clear understanding of the science involved, and explore different approaches and opinions which consider the implications of these issues on science and society. Bioethics for Scientists will show you how to think about the issues without trying to tell you what to think. Where relevant, case studies are included to support these discussions. This book includes chapters on: environmental ethics use of natural resources experimental use of animals crop biotechnology and GM foods patenting life human reproduction and technology human genetics and genetic enhancement ? cloning of humans and animals euthanasia and related issues Written in a very readable style, Bioethics for Scientists is essential reading for students and researchers in biotechnology, life, environmental and other sciences, plus anyone who wishes to improve their understanding of this complex and fascinating area. '[This book] specialises in the public understanding and attitudes towards biotechnology and the social and ethical implications of the new genetics...' Dr J R Downie, Division of Environmental & Evolutionary Biology, University of Glasgow, UK 'Unique emphasis on the environmental, agricultural and animal science contents' Dr Sana Loue, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, CWRU School of Medicine, Ohio, USA.

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bioethics by scientists?.......2004-06-18

Most of the chapters in this book seem to be written by scientists, not academic philosophers or ethicists. So, unfortunately, they tend to not be very subtle, sophisticiated or carefully argued. I'd recommend something written by specialists in ethics, not scientists, to learn more about how to reasonably address some of the ethical issues that confront scientists. Almost any bioethics anthology edited by philosophers would do that.

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How Genetic Information Is Produced and Manipulated by Scientists, Physicians, Employers, Insurance Companies, Educators, and Law Enforcers With a new Preface "With their rich array of citations and examples . . . [Hubbard and Wald] show how the marriage of science and business . . . has created that most treacherous of American progeny: commerce masquerading as human liberation." -Daniel Callahan, The New York Times Book Review

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Earth-Shaking Paradigm Shift from a Very Prominent Biologist.......2004-10-28

Ruth Hubbard is a professor emerita of biology at Harvard and a member of the Council for Responsible Genetics, a prominent national bioethics board. In this book (co-written with her son-in-law, Elijah Wald), she takes everything you think you know about genes, genetic health care screening, DNA fingerprinting, the Human Genome Project, and the search for a gay gene and other behavior-related genes, and blows your mind by explaining, point by point, exactly how unreliable, meaningless, and discriminatory each of these much-lauded technologies is. After reading this book, you'll never read a newspaper article about the latest genetic study the same way again. Don't miss it.

Rhetoric Against a Needed Science.......2001-11-18

Ruth Hubbard uses the rhetoric of exaggeration to try to convince us to abandon genetic research. But if genes didn't matter then monkeys could talk and if environment didn't matter then we wouldn't have schools. Obviously they BOTH matter.

Let us use the objective methods of science to document the specifics of what is genetically determined and what is environmentally determined.

Any serious AIDS researcher knows that without genetic research we have no chance of defeating AIDS. Obviously we need to study genetics to maintain progress against disease.

A brilliantly written book.......1999-10-28

Dr. Hubbard gives her readers much to think about, and she backs up everything she's written. She explains how the popularly-held reductionist view of genetics does not tell the whole story. Her book explains how the public often only hears one side of the story when it comes to the potential of the latest genetic technologies.

The work of a good scientist, an abysmal social commentator.......1999-08-29

Hubbard does deserve credit for throwing some skepticism on "the next big thing" in science, genetic technology. Unfortunately, she combines her skeptical analysis with her hopelessly egalitarian political views, obscuring any positive contributions this book could have. Hubbard goes through every expected cliche - Nazi imagery (social pundits never tire of this), playing the "race card, and discouraging scientific progress as "unneccessary". Read this book only if you wish to glimpse the future of awful politically-correct rhetoric.

The author breaks ranks to reveal the truth about genetics........1998-10-02

A 5-star book. If there weren't so much hype about gene therapy there would be no need for this book. But bad science and misinformation coming from those with commercial or political interests has given the American public the idea that gene therapy has possibilities. To date, gene therapy has not cured one disease. Ruth Hubbard finally breaks ranks to reveal the truth about genetics.

Life Scientists: Their Convictions, Their Activities and Their Values

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Life Scientists: Their Convictions, Their Activities and Their Values
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Life scientists appear to be the wizards of this new era. They have ventured to tackle issues ranging from the origin of life to the origins of humankind; from medical and genetic knowledge to questions about how to control life and death. Spectacular are the achievements they have made. Who are these scientists? How do they operate? What do they believe? What do they value? Read it yourself.

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a great assett.......1997-02-18

The book would be a great assett to upper level students for instilling a more realistic vision of science, and would be a good book for stimulating discussions with colleagues. Fraser F. Fleming, Dept. of Chemistry, Duquesne Univ

Messing with mother nature. (Bioethics). : An article from: American Scientist

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Human embryonic stem-cell research: science and ethics.: An article from: American Scientist

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Obtaining pluripotent stem cells without destroying human embryos focus of President's Council on Bioethics' report.(stem cells derives ) : An article from: Transplant News

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When Medicine Went Mad: Bioethics and the Holocaust.: An article from: American Scientist

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BIOETHICS FOR SCIENTISTS
John A. Bryant
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