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New on ISN: How EPA Faked the Entire Science of Sewage Sludge Safety: A Whistleblower’s Story
Published today in Independent Science News: “How EPA Faked the Entire Science of Sewage Sludge Safety: A Whistleblower’s Story” by Dr David Lewis. This article is based on a chapter in Dr. Lewis’ new book: Science for Sale.
The US EPA’s 503 sludge rule (1993) currently allows application of treated sewage sludges (aka biosolids) to farms, forests, parks, schools, playgrounds, homes, and gardens. Biosolids are the insoluble wastes that settle out at water treatment plants. They contain complex mixtures of industrial chemicals, heavy metals, mercury, phthalates, flame retardants, hormones, pharmaceuticals, and pathogenic agents. While working at the EPA, senior scientist David Lewis published evidence showing a New Hampshire teenager Shayne Conner died, and other neighbors were harmed, from read more…
New on ISN: Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies
Independent Science News has just published: “Genetic Testing of Citizens Is a Backdoor into Total Population Surveillance by Governments and Companies” by Helen Wallace, PhD, Executive Director of GeneWatch UK.
Why is Britain’s Health Service (the NHS), which is legendarily short of money, nevertheless willing to spend hundreds of millions of pounds to collect and store DNA, and build electronic health databases? The official answer read more…
More Than 250 Health Professionals and Researchers Say: Fracking Is Not Safe
Yesterday, a broad-based coalition of more than 250 medical organizations, health experts and researchers – mostly from New York State but some luminaries and fracking researchers from elsewhere as well – sent a letter to New York’s Governor Cuomo and new acting Department of Health commissioner, Dr. Zucker.
The letter lays out recent science and trends in the data on fracking and calls for a 3-5 year concrete moratorium. read more…
New on ISN: EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry “escape route” Around Looming Pesticide Ban
Independent Science News has just published “EU Safety Institutions Caught Plotting an Industry “escape route” Around Looming Pesticide Ban” by Jonathan Latham, PhD, Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project.
Synopsis: Documents obtained by the nonprofit Pesticide Action Network (PAN) of Europe reveal that the health commission of the European Union (DG SANCO), which is responsible for protecting public health, is attempting to develop a procedural “escape route” to help companies evade an upcoming EU-wide ban on endocrine disrupting pesticides. This ban arose from strong scientific concerns read more…
New on ISN: What Will The World Inherit From GE Salmon?
Independent Science News has just published “What Will The World Inherit From GE Salmon?” by Dr. Gerry Goeden.
Article Synopsis: Ten percent of Norwegian salmon rivers no longer have any wild salmon populations, and Norwegian wild salmon as a whole have declined by 80% since the 1970s. This disappearance of wild salmon is not limited to Norway, it is a global phenomenon. The explanation is not the standard one of overfishing. Instead, it is primarily read more…
New BSR Resource Page: Human Genetic Predispositions – the hidden politics of genomic science
Most modern medical research assumes that inherited genetic predispositions underlie the current epidemics of (non-infectious) diseases and disorders. A partial list includes type II diabetes, heart disease, cancer, autism, various mental illnesses, myopia, and stroke. Historically, this genetic determinist paradigm in medicine was driven by tobacco industry funding. The industry calculated read more…
Exposing the Toxic Secrets of Corporations and Regulators
Independent Science News
- Global Civil Society: The Dire Consequences of Secretive Biotech Regulation February 25, 2025
- In Testimony, Robert Garry Declines To Rule Out That Researchers Brought Ebola To West Africa In 2014 January 25, 2025
- The Future of the Lab Leak Theory March 17, 2024
- The American Chestnut Foundation Bails as GE Chestnut Develops Growth and Fertility Problems and Fails to Resist the Blight December 15, 2023
- Transgenic Rice Once Again Proposed as Solution to Bacterial Blight Outbreaks, This Time in Africa September 14, 2023
- The Great Raccoon Dog Mystery June 29, 2023
- Children from Gamete-like Cells: Dishing up a Eugenic Future June 19, 2023
- Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin? October 25, 2022
- Fauci’s COVID Origin SWAT Team Versus the Mojiang Miner Passage Theory May 23, 2022
- Delete, Deny, and Destroy: Chinese and Western Strategies To Erase COVID’s Origin Are Being Exposed By Independent Research April 21, 2022