And you could fill a public library with Jeremy Rifkin's lamentations over cloning, biotechnology and Holstein cows that give too much milk.

FORBES: The Upside Of Optimism

Another nexus of history and current events is that Jeremy Rifkin, anti-biotechnology fanatic and all-around kook, is currently on the talk-radio circuit touting a new book.

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Jeremy Rifkin now had new allies.

BBC: GM crops: A bitter harvest?

We are in deep trouble, McHughen noted, when the media and the public are willing to equate the views of Jeffrey Smith or Jeremy Rifkin with those of the late Norman Borlaug, the Nobel Laureate and one of the pioneers behind the green revolution that has saved tens of millions of lives.

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