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 NHS is one of our greatest institutions and we must defend it to the hilt, writes Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need joined up policies across the policy spectrum, valuing human wellbeing above crude economic growth.
… Natalie Bennett. But to build the healthy society we all want and deserve, we need … what the NHS can do for us, but what we, as a society, as policymakers, as politicians, can … to ask what we can do to create a healthy society. Of course there are reasons for doing …
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 …
Within minutes of Labour's election defeat its MPs were denouncing Miliband for failing to 'embrace aspiration' and alienating 'wealth creators', writes Ben Whitham. But the real problem was that he never expressed a coherent alternative to neoliberalism and austerity, presenting at best a 'Tory lite' agenda that failed to inspire. And who are the real wealth creators anyway?
… | 4th July 2015 News Politics UK Economics Society jeremy-corbyn-cut.jpg Within minutes … does , as the real "heroes" of British society? Risk, uncertainty, and profit The … value that such things are accorded is a society's 'wealth' - created by workers 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 …
The #GreenSurge - which has seen the Green Party's membership quadruple in a year - has happened for good reasons, says Natalie Bennett: a deep disgust and frustration at 'mainstream' politics and its subservience to vested interests; and the growing yearning for a better, greener, fairer future.
… - because it's the only one we've got. A society fit for people and our communities No … The Green Party is offering instead a society working for all of us; for the many, not just the few; a society in which those who can contribute do …
The short cut to transformation offered by politics is an illusion
… Politics Green Party Zac Goldsmith Community Society Green UK Green Living Politics And … vehicle for the transition to a sustainable society. However, both in terms of general … new party be happy to try to transform society having won an election supported by …
The growth of food banks reflects a simple truth: the government does not care about hungry families, writes Rupert Read. To tackle hunger, work must pay a living wage, social security must do its job, and communities must rebuild local food networks.
… Rupert Read | 5th May 2014 Comment Food UK Society Politics trussell-vauxhall-cut.jpg The … people. We need radical solutions to fix our society...: Short term: Making sure emergency … of as 'the poor'. Food banks have shown society's commitment to help those in need. It …
A consistent pattern is emerging in the UK government's plans and policies, writes Paul Mobbs: the stripping away of human rights and freedoms; the detachment of public institutions from democratic accountability; an increase of the powers of the state; and the empowerment of corporations at the expense of people. We must act to preserve our liberties, while we still can.
… 11th June 2015 News Human Rights Politics UK Society Fracking Health great-dictator-cut.png … majority of which do not focus on making our society more inclusive. From imposing further … freedom. In many ways, in our technological society [33], 'privacy' has come to replace …
It's time for UK citizens to #takebackREALcontrol by challenging the anti-democratic powers that control our country, our economy and our lives, retiring Green Party Leader Natalie Bennett told her party conference this weekend in this barnstorming speech. And that's a challenge only the Greens are prepared to take on.
… UK Climate Change Pollution Oceans Transport Society Green Economy … years have, however, for British politics, society and our precious natural world, been … that position after what the Electoral Reform Society judged a referendum campaign that …
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 …
Surprise changes to the Finance Bill in its third reading have withdrawn tax benefits for investors in community renewable energy projects, writes Georgina Matthews. While some societies are rushing to complete their fund-raising by the end of the month, others have been forced to close. If these measures are not withdrawn, a small but flourishing sector will be at risk.
… 11th November 2015 Comment Energy Renewables Society Community Finance Green Economy UK … strong social and environmental benefit to society, at little or no cost to the tax … strong social and environmental benefit to society, at little or no cost to the tax …
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 …
For just 8% of the fish landed, extraordinary, beautiful, ancient, diverse deep sea habitats are routinely destroyed by fishing gear. And as J. Murray Roberts writes, it's all for a one-off hit as the fish are so slow to grow and reproduce. If the same damage happened on land, there would be uproar.
… printed a cartoon showing a group of high society ladies enjoying an afternoon cup of … the bottom of the ocean, and the New York society ladies perfectly reflect the issue - … our planet? Does the deep sea do anything for society? Is it important? The marine landscape …
The FCA is accused of undermining official policy by refusing new applications for community energy projects with a co-operative structure, writes Adam Vaughan. The key question: what is a bona fide co-op? Is investment alone a valid form of participation?
… it lists as "buying from or selling to the society" , "using the services or amenities … applicant must be a bona fide co-operative society where members participate in its …
Jeremy Corbyn's soaraway success in Labour's leadership contest poses an existential threat to the Greens, writes Rupert Read. To counter it we must re-assert our distinctive ethos, values, policies and principles, rooted in ecologism not socialism, respecting natural limits, opposed to endless economic growth, dedicated to building and sharing the wealth we all hold in common.
… Read | 12th August 2015 Comment Politics Society Economy Green Economy UK … work, and so perpetuating an overworked society obsessed with the seize of its wage … Instead, it is our goal to create the leisure society: not in the sense of idealising …
Developers are determined to build a massive motor sports complex on common land above the South Wales valleys, on the edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park, writes Kate Ashbrook. But although they have planning permission, they can still be defeated. Image: Ross Merritt, via Flickr.
… many objectors, among them the Open Spaces Society, Gwent Wildlife Trust, Friends of the Earth Cymru and Brecon Beacons Park Society. The Brecon Beacons National Park … the last hurdle. But the Open Spaces Society warned that they still had some way to …