Category Archives: GENETIC ENGINEERING
GUEST POST BY Alexis Baden-Mayer: David R. Franz: EcoHealth Alliance’s Anthrax-Era Biological Weapons Scientist
David R. Franz: EcoHealth Alliance’s Anthrax-Era Biological Weapons Scientist BY ALEXIS BADEN-MAYER Organic Consumers Association EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the ninth article in our ‘Gain-of-Function Hall of Shame’ series profiling key players in gain-of-function research. “I think a lot of good has come from it. From a biological or a medical standpoint, we’ve now five people […]
ROUNDUP READY? DRINK UP, IT’S GOOD FOR YOU … NOT!
by CATHRYN SWAN reprinted from WashingtonSquareParkBlog.com Environmental advocacy groups, Beyond Pesticides and the No Spray Coalition are calling for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to “stop the use of the country’s most popular herbicide, glyphosate, in the wake of an international ruling that it causes cancer in […]
GENETIC RACISM & BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting’s (FAIR) Steve Rendall has written an excellent critique [click here to read it] of former New York Times science columnist Nicholas Wade’s racist views, which Wade rationalized by applying a genetic determinist argument. Rendall asks why it took the Times so long to finally see through (did they?) Wade’s racist […]
