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versity of Chicago Press, 994 ), 4. Cited by: Naomi Oreskes, “Science and
Public Policy: What’s Proof Got to Do With It?” Environmental Science &
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Chapter 7
. Today, the logic of buying and selling: Michael Sandel, What Money
Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
0 ), Kindle edition, 93 – 94.
. Adolf Hitler ordered his forces: Alexis Peri, The War Within: Diaries
from the Siege of Leningrad (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 0 7 ),
Kindle edition, 349.
3. most of the 800,000 who perished: Ibid.
4. the museum’s director launched a daring plan: Gary Nabhan, Where
Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine (Wash-
ington, DC: Island Press, 008 ), .
. hinterlands of Russia: Ibid.
6. Seven weeks later: Ibid., .
7. the Research Institute of Plant Industry: Ibid., 9.
8. 2,500 species of food crops: Ibid., 3.
9. the Third Reich’s future use: Ibid., 8.
0. simply cold-treating seeds: James Crow, “N. I. Vavilov, Martyr to
Genetic Truth,” Genetics 34 , no. (May 993 ): – 4 , https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih
.gov/pmc/articles/PMC 0 4 7 /pdf/ge 34 .pdf.
. The official press release: Nabhan, Where Our Food Comes From, 7.
. most dedicated coworkers slowly starved to death: Ibid., 8.
3. excluded products of nature: “The Patent Act of 790 , chap. 7 , stat.
09 – (April 0 , 790 )—The First United States Patent Statute,” chap. VII, IP
Mall, University of New Hampshire School of Law, accessed September 3 , 0 8 ,
http://www.ipmall.info/sites/default/files/hosted_resources/lipa/patents
/Patent_Actof 790 .pdf.
4. It was Thomas Jefferson: “Summary of Public Service, [After Sep-
tember 800 ],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives
.gov/documents/Jefferson/ 0 - 3 - 0 - 0080.
. directed overseas consuls to collect rare seeds: A. Pieters, “Seed Dis-
tribution by the United States Department of Agriculture,” The Plant World
3 , no. (December 9 0 ): 9 – 96 , https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/ 434768 9
.pdf; A. Pieters, “The Business of Seed and Plant Introduction and Dis-