Category Archives: SCIENCE
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 […]
THE CAPITALIST SYSTEM VS. THE IMMUNE SYSTEM: TOWARDS A GREEN APPROACH TO FREE UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE IN THE U.S.
by Mitchel Cohen The following was written a decade-and-a-half before the outbreak of the SARS COV2 Covid-19 pandemic. THE FIGHT FOR FREE, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE is even more critical today than it was a decade ago when Hillary and Bill Clinton sacrificed it to the greed of the insurance companies and HMOs. Yes, health […]
Guest Post by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: My Letter to Dr. Sanjay Gupta
April 16, 2020 By Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Chairman, Children’s Health Defense The flu shot INCREASES the risks for common colds by 36%. – Pentagon study (see below, in green) Robert Kennedy, Jr. is speaking throughout about studies pertaining to the CoronaVirus, the cause for 20 percent of cases of the common cold, and not […]
THE STRUGGLE FOR ECOLOGICAL AGRICULTURE IN CUBA
by RICHARD LEVINS with an into by Mitchel Cohen With the indiscriminate spraying of toxic insecticides on the people of NY and the natural environment, this article — originally written in 1991 and updated in 1995 — becomes even more useful. In it, Richard Levins discusses, among other things, the use of ants and natural […]
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 […]