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 …
Technology is crucial to all the big issues, but criticism is hampered by mythologies and structures of power, writes David King. Designed by and for corporate interests, modern industrial technologies embody a 400-year old technocratic philosophy of control of nature and people which must be confronted.
… 2015 Comment Technology Politics Economics Society blue gathering flyer-cut.jpg … every big issue about the future of global society hinges on technology, mainstream … is possible. The fundamental basis of any society is its relationship to nature, and …
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 …
As to global annihilation, I’m stumped. Most of us wouldn’t recognise a strangelet if it casually devoured us in the street
… Hadron colliders and the risk society Jim Thomas | 20th June 2008 Comment … Sir Martin Rees, president of the UK’s Royal Society, offers three scenarios by which … be gobbling up 120MW of power at a time when society needs to cut back global energy-use? …
What role does technology play in our ecologically sustainable future, and how do we get there?
… is the only viable option for organising society? How can we picture possible future … technology to achieve a resource-unlimited society, versus degrowth’s aim of limiting the … Degrowth also seeks to slow the metabolism of society, whereas accelerationism aims to …
The issues surrounding powerful new technologies from GMOs to nuclear power appear disparate, writes David King - but look harder and most are linked by common threads. Key among them are issues of profit, control and socialisation of cost ...
… April 2014 Comment Green Economy Technology Society Corporations synthetic-biology.png The … we have come to depend on? The whole way our society develops is heavily influenced by … to a sustainable and economically just society. Making that transition will have to …
The New Sylva is a worthy successor to John Evelyn's original of 1644, writes Colin Tudge, with superb line drawings and a text that looks more to the future of Britain's trees, than their past. A book for ladies, gentlemen, 'meer woodsmen' and 'ordinary rusticks' alike.
… Tudge | 30th May 2014 Reviews Forests UK Society Building Technology … 'ordinary rusticks' alike. In 1664 the Royal Society of London, founded only four years … of trees and woods. Its author was one of the Society's co-founders, John Evelyn, who among …
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 …
Networks of recycled smartphones are powering a crack down on illegal logging and poaching, writes Alex Kirby. The technology will help combat devastation of trees and wildlife in threatened habitats worldwide - beginning with Africa.
… to discarded treasures from the consumer society - mobile phones. A Californian … has formed a partnership with the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), an international …
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, …
The idea that our profit-oriented, growth-driven economic system can deliver a sustainable society is a beguiling one, write Lili Fuhr, Thomas Fatheuer & Barbara Unmüßig. But it is doomed to failure. The changes we need are in the first place political, and will be driven by a new democratic will to put people and planet before money.
… economic system can deliver a sustainable society is a beguiling one, write Lili Fuhr, … and systems that are not fit to address society's needs. Consider the automotive … by the kind of open debate, engaging civil society, that is vital to a pluralistic …
The public must play a significant role in any decisions made about the development of the new technology. By Tom Wakeford
… Technology Public Role Science And Technology Society The public must play a significant … don’t play God, who will?’ Yet at the Royal Society’s People’s Science Summit in March … Nurse (the director of the RS’s Science in Society committee) suggested that genetic …
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 …