In early March author Steven Druker challenged the Royal Society to justify its outspoken and partisan support of GMO crops, writes Colin Todhunter, and to correct any errors of fact in his book 'Altered Genes,Twisted Truths'. Three months later, the Royal Society remains silent. Is it frightened of genuine scientific debate?
… GMOs: the Royal Society's deafening silence Colin Todhunter | … 2015 Comment GMOs Science UK Health royal-society-cut.jpg Behind its palatial Nash … onto London's St James's Park, the Royal Society is maintaining an undignified silence …
The Royal Society wants us to take its word that GM crops are safe and healthy, writes Steven Druker. But it refuses to retract its errors, apologise to those whose reputations it has impugned, or enter into constructive debate on the issue. To restore its scientific integrity, it must abide by its own motto.
… The Royal Society's assault on the science of GM foods … Food Farming bookplate_of_the_royal_society_(great_britain)-cut.jpg The Royal Society wants us to take its word that GM … be defied: where the institution is the Royal Society, the world's oldest and most revered …
The Royal Society purports to provide unbiased information on scientific issues, writes Steven Druker. But its new guide on GMOs is grossly misleading - glossing over the many dangers inherent to the technology with bland, unsupported re-assurances. The Society must end its partisan promotion of GMOs or risk its reputation as Britain's premier scientific body.
… Royal Society must end its partisan, unscientific … News GMOs Science Health Food Farming royal-society-cut.jpg The Royal Society purports to provide unbiased …
The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil Association - consistently Gung-ho! for the last 20 years, while refusing to engage with critics of the technology or even accept the existence of any problems. Its latest effort represents more of the same, while exposing this once August body to ridicule for its egregious scientific howlers.
… omission and misrepresentation: the Royal Society on GM crops Soil Association | 27th … The Royal Society has form on GM crops, writes the Soil … its egregious scientific howlers. This Royal Society document about GM crops , like every …
A Vision for Science and Society, in today’s technological vista, sounds an honourable aim. Guy Cook reads between the lines of this new UK government paper
… UK Government paper, A Vision for Science and Society, is no clear picture Guy Cook | 20th … A Vision for Science and Society, in today’s technological vista, … than the choices made by government and society between available technologies. So in …
Rooted in the Andean principles of sharing, resilience and 'Vivir Bien' (Living Well), Bolivian activists in the world's highest capital city are building cooperative, grassroots alternatives to the profit-oriented economy, writes Sian Cowman. Their weekly lunch party is just the most visible way in which they are challenging the injustice of capitalism and the fragmentation it inflicts on communities.
… | 20th July 2016 Ethical Living Bolvia Food Society Green Economy Indigenous Peoples the … the have-nots, those seen as 'nobodies' by society at large - those who are most … recognize the need to transition towards a society organized according to principles …
Kirkpatrick Sale is shocked by a new and disturbing view of the ecological role of the American Indian.
… Environment Climate Change Natural World Society Archive_158.jpg Kirkpatrick Sale is … from the 50,000 or 60,000 of the original society. What survived was at best a loose and … and clan remnants, nothing like the thriving society that once must have been. Second, the …
Why is BP sponsoring the Science Museum's 'Late' event? It's all part of creating 'scientific consent' for fossil fuels, writes Drew Pearce, in the face of scientific certainty about climate change and the need for drastic cuts in carbon emissions. That's why we gatecrashed their latest show last week.
… 2016 Comment Climate Change Corporations Society Science Protest criminal-poster.jpg … introspection across almost all aspect of our society and economy. We will need to consider … ramping up of commitments as well as wider society to hold governments to account on …
Following the retraction of the Seralini et al scientific paper which found health damage to rats fed on GM corn, over 100 scientists have pledged in this Open Letter to boycott Elsevier, publisher of the Journal responsible.
… Elsevier ISIS - Institute of Science in Society | 5th December 2013 Comment GMOs Gm … ThermoMed International DGTR Germany, German Society of Thermography and Regulation … Webmaster and Productions Editor Science in Society, ISIS, Milton Keynes, UNITED KINGDOM …
Film maker Nick Breeze has conducted a series of interviews with experts on 'geo-engineering' to forestall runaway global warming. Here he presents the distilled wisdom from his meetings - and concludes that we should at least be experimenting with the techniques, and studying their impacts.
… stated in his presentation at the Royal Society recently: "The very very alarming … (IAGP) made this comment during his Royal Society presentation: "I'm not going to talk … into what can be done. The event at the Royal Society in November focussed on another form …
The Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest, face extinction unless Brazil's government acts to secure their legal rights to land, security and to remain undisturbed by outsiders, writes Lewis Evans. The decree that would achieve this vital goal has been sitting on the Minister of Justice's desk since 2013. Let's make sure he signs it soon, before it's too late.
… into their lands threatens to wipe out their society forever. The smallest amount of … already had to radically reorganize their society and adapt to their changing …
For most Australians, 26th January is a day of family celebration, writes John Pilger. But for its indigenous peoples the only thing to celebrate is their survival after over two centuries of rape, murder, theft and vicious racism that continues to this day, and has even found new expression in Australia's war on refugees, incarcerated in barbaric Pacific Island concentration camps.
… 2016 Activism Australia Indigenous Peoples Society aborigines-cut.jpg For most … Australia has changed from an Anglo-Irish society to one of the most ethnically diverse … Africans. Apartheid runs through Australian society. Within a short flight from Sydney, …
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who know the price of everything, and the value of nothing, must be fought off.
… 2015 Activism Education Indigenous Peoples Society hamer-people-cut.jpg Spot the … at a time of troubling intolerance in society, but it does far more than merely help … Panel on Climate Change and the Royal Society's Working Group on Climate …
This powerful book by Davi Kopenawa and Bruce Albert reveals to us the world view of the Yanomami shaman, writes Sue Branford - together with many uncomfortable insights about the horrors of mainstream modern society, seen from an indigenous viewpoint as a form of organized madness that's driving the world to destruction.
… 2015 Reviews Indigenous Peoples Books Brazil Society davi-kopenawa-cut.jpg This powerful … about the horrors of mainstream modern society, seen from an indigenous viewpoint as … the eye of an outsider, he knows 'white' society well. Davi was brought up deep in the …
The idea of a 'good, or even great, Anthropocene' as promised in the Ecomodernist Manifesto is purely delusional, writes Derrick Jensen. Worse, it underlies a narrative in which the wholesale destruction of nature and of sustainable indigenous societies is repackaged as a noble mission - one whose ultimate purpose is the complete alienation of humans from the planet that spawned us.
… Derrick Jensen | 10th November 2015 Comment Society Natural World Ecocide Indigenous … said that cities could exist under such a society. I asked, "What do you use for … and always has been the health of the land. A society with fewer members living in a …
How pre-industrial societies and cultures mesh together with their host environments.
… hunter-gatherers are the “original affluent society”, with the word ‘affluence’ defined … stability and the well-being of self and society.” [10] Meanwhile the Kayapó and other …
Dolphins are passing toxic PCBs to their young, study finds.
… involved Morigenos – Slovenian Marine Mammal Society (Slovenia), the Sea Mammal Research … University of St Andrews (UK), the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology (UK), … wildlife veterinarian at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology, …
A detailed update of key climate indicators by hundreds of scientists reveals that 2014 saw rises in temperatures, sea levels and greenhouse gases to record levels, writes Alex Kirby.
… published by the American Meterological Society , draws on contributions from 413 … the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society , and compiled by NOAA’s Center for …
A key paper that's been widely cited to justify the use of GM 'Golden rice' to boost vitamin A nutrition has been withdrawn due to ethical breaches, with no proof of consent by parents of the children taking part in trials. But that's not the only objection.
… the journal's publisher , the American Society for Nutrition, to stop the retraction. … 17, 2015 has cleared the way for the American Society for Nutrition (ASN) to retract the … article was retracted by the American Society for Nutrition on July 29, 2015. "In …
Venezuela is set to hand over 12% of the nation's territory in the upper reaches of the Amazon rainforest to mining corporations, writes Lucio Marcello, with 150 companies from 35 countries poised to devastate the army-controlled 'special economic zone'. But resistance is growing, and a counter-proposal aims to protect the area's precious biodiversity, indigenous cultures and water resources in a new South Orinoco Mega Reserve.
… with no debate within Parliament or civil society, the Venezuelan government decreed … of the Arco Minero, and a broad civil society movement came together in July 2016 to … human rights abuses permeating all aspects of society. Its oil-dependent economy has been …
The 'brutal savage' meme has enjoyed a resurgence in popular culture and establishment narratives, writes Stephen Corry, despite abundant evidence that it's fundamentally wrong. But it suits today's dominant mindset of conquest, conflict and colonialism all too well, and serves to justify the ongoing genocide and expropriation of surviving Indigenous Peoples today.
… April 2016 Comment Indigenous Peoples Science Society War Books yanomami-cut.jpg The 'brutal … It also underpins how industrialized society treats those it sees as 'backward'. In … are a small-scale tribal (non-state) hunting society, our ancestors were the same, so the …
The pro-GM lobby has sought to take the 'scientific high-ground' by positioning itself as the voice of reason and progress, while painting its opponents as unsophisticated 'anti-science' luddites. In a scathing response Peter Melchett turns the tables
… turns the tables Powerful forces in Western society have been promoting genetic … Blair, scientific bodies like the UK's Royal Society, research councils, successive UK … and his work, particularly the UK’s Royal Society. However, to their shame, not one of …