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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Scotland's decision to maintain its GM-free status is in the best interests of the country, its people and its farmers, 30 scientists write to Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead. It is abundantly justified by the scientific evidence and will support the sustainable, agroecological farming systems of the future.
… London Ontario, Canada Fellow of Science In Society, London, UK; Many reports and articles … Dr Mae-Wan Ho , Institute of Science in Society, Roster of Experts on Cartagena … , Co-director, Institute of Science in Society; Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, …
The very first GE product, a dietary supplement, poisoned thousands of people of which dozens died, writes Steven M. Druker. The first GE food, the 'Flavr Savr' tomato, caused stomach lesions. But a long campaign of concealment and deception by regulators and corporate scientists re-engineered the truth to present GMOs as so safe they did not even need to be tested for safety.
… false. For instance, in 2001 the Royal Society of Canada issued a report concluding … guide to GE crops published by the UK's Royal Society in May 2016. [xviii] Although it … of Food Biotechnology in Canada '. The Royal Society of Canada, January 2001. This report …
GMOs have been in our diets for about 20 years, writes Rupert Read. Proof that they are safe? No way - it took much, much longer to discover the dangers of cigarettes and transfats, dangers that are far more visible than those of GMOs. On the scale of nature and ecology, 20 years is a pitifully short time. To sustain our human future, we have to think long term.
… Rupert Read | 18th April 2016 Comment GMOs Society Science Technology cig-cut.jpg GMOs … not a science itself. It must be up to society to decide which technologies to adopt: … of this article. It must be up to society to decide which technologies to adopt: …
'Science cannot be left in the hands of those who champion the multinational seed and agrochemical companies.'
… have? How will it change our environment, our society, our diet? Unless you’ve asked those … bullet' approach – treating nature and society like a machine – you pull a lever and … left the natural world and human society in such a parlous state. Our science …
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
… away from the research necessary to address society’s problems in a systemic manner and … rather than addressing the root causes in society itself. ‘Ultrafine particles (UFPs) … Milbrath, Research Programme in Science and society, State University of New York. …
The key study that justifies the Government's claim that fracking is a climate change 'solution' is based on serious scientific errors, writes Nick Cowern. Not only has the Government failed to correct them, but it is now delaying the publication of a new official report that would reveal the truth - that fracking is considerably worse for the world's climate than coal.
… government requested a report from the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering, …
A low carbon Britain rests on the electrification of our energy supply. But new research by the University of Surrey has highlighted the challenges facing government, market and civil society-led pathways to reducing emissions
… facing government, market and civil society-led pathways to reducing emissions … pathway, Central Coordination, and a civil society-led pathway, Thousand Flowers, all …
As a society, we are strangely disconnected from the Earth, writes Stephan Harding. It's as if we were aliens placed here to prod and poke with our scientific instruments whilst feeling no sense of meaning, belonging or closeness to her ancient crumpled surface or rich, teeming biodiversity - a state of mind that a forthcoming course at Schumacher College aims to reverse.
… Ecology Science daisies-cut.jpg As a society, we are strangely disconnected from … of rational scientific analysis. Thus, as a society, we feel strangely disconnected from …
160 global groups have called for a moratorium on new 'genetic extinction' technology at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity meeting in Cancun, Mexico. Gene drive technology, they say, poses serious and irreversible threats to biodiversity, national sovereignty, peace and food security.
… scientific community, local communities and society at large to debate and reflect. We … support for a moratorium Over 160 civil society organisations from six continents have …
Rewilding is now firmly on the agenda, writes Paul Jepson, and that brings a huge opportunity to re-invigorate conservation. But we must look to creating new functional ecosystems for the future, rather than trying to recreate a lost and perhaps imagined past.
… 2015 Comment Natural World UK Biodiversity Society Science Ecology bison-cut.jpg … the 1970s. They are ageing. Both science and society have moved on. Any revisions to …