The CTA (as the International Center for Technology Assessmment styles itself) claims to be non-partisan, as any idiot can plainly infer from the following statement in a March 2007 letter from its Executive Director, one Andrew Kimball, to an unnamed U.S. senator:
"The government continues to expand its investment in nanotechnology’s applications, but has failed to give the crucial social, environmental, health and safety, and ethical implications of the new technology its requisite and urgently needed share of that investment. ... Existing research suggests that nanotechnology presents unprecedented risks to human health and the environment that demand new paradigms of health and safety testing and risk assessment. Moreover, the convergence of nanotechnology with genetic technologies, information technologies, and cognitive neurology biology raises serious new EHS challenges. Substantially increased federal funding must address these fundamentally unique ethical, social, environmental, and health risks while these converging technologies are still in the early stages of development and commercialization. Significant increases in federal funding should first and foremost be allocated to study of these human health and environmental impacts, as well as broader societial issues and adequate oversight development, before widespread deployment of these technologies."
And: "CTA is the country's primary legal organization fighting megatechnologies and technocracies. Using legal petitions, comments, and litigation CTA is at the forefront of the battles to limit genetic engineering, end the patenting of life, address greenhouse gas emissions, protect animals from abuse in research and agriculture, and halt deforestation...."
Watermelons don't get much greener. Or redder.