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New on ISN: Can the Scientific Reputation of Pamela Ronald, Public Face of GMOs, Be Salvaged?
Published today in Independent Science News: “Can the Scientific Reputation of Pamela Ronald, Public Face of GMOs, Be Salvaged?”
Written by Jonathan Latham, PhD
Read the full article at Url: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/news/can-the-scientific-reputation-of-pamela-ronald-public-face-of-gmos-be-salvaged/
Synopsis: When a quotable university expert is needed to speak on behalf of crop biotechnology, Pamela Ronald is the U.S. media’s professor of choice. Her credibility as a scientific pro-GMO expert derives from her long term research into diseases of rice at the University of California, Davis. But Pamela Ronald’s research career is coming to resemble a liability. In the past year Ronald has publicly retracted two original scientific papers based on research carried out in the laboratory she heads. These publications (including one from Science) formed the core of her plant disease research program. At the same time, German researchers have publicly raised substantive questions about a third Ronald publication.
Presumably because her scientific reputation is highly valuable to the biotech industry, a coordinated media campaign is underway to rescue it. Pamela Ronald and the campaign blame now-departed lab members from Thailand and Korea for the lab’s errors and Ronald is praised for initiating the retractions. The truth, however, is not so simple, and raises still further questions about the scientific validity of Pamela Ronald’s research.
Published Today on ISN: The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture
Independent Science News today published “The Founding Fables of Industrialised Agriculture” by Colin Tudge, writer and co-founder of The Campaign for Real Farming and the College for Enlightened Agriculture.
Article synopsis: Industrial agriculture “is a far bigger threat to humanity than North Korea or “terrorism”, or the collapse of banks or dwindling oil”. Responsible for, among other things, climate change, water pollution, ill health, and the destruction of soils, small-scale farming, and rural communities, it has been sold to the public on a series of mythological propositions. Principal among these myths are monoculture agriculture’s “high yields and efficiency”, smallholder farming’s “inadequacy”, and the “food productivity crisis”. Journalists, politicians, and especially academics, propagate these myths — apparently read more…
New on ISN: Poor Numbers: How We Are Misled by African Development Statistics
African economies feature huge discrepancies and alarming gaps in statistical knowledge. These exist with respect to productivity, income distribution, and population. Some of these statistical problems represent simple inadequacy of data collection, but many are the result of politics. Data are subject to manipulation by political leaders to ensure favorable read more…
Scientists State: There Is No Scientific Consensus on GMO Safety
Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD, The Bioscience Resource Project’s Executive Director and Science Director have joined over 90 other scientists, academics, and physicians in signing the Statement described in today’s European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Responsibility (ENSSER) Press Release:
There is no scientific consensus on the safety of genetically modified foods and crops, according to a statement released today by an international group of more than 90 scientists, academics and physicians.[1]
The statement comes in response to recent claims from the GM industry and some scientists, journalists, and commentators that there is a “scientific consensus” that GM foods and crops were generally found safe for human and animal health and the environment. The statement calls these claims “misleading”, adding, “This claimed consensus on GMO safety does not exist.”
“Such claims may place human and environmental health at undue risk and create an atmosphere of complacency,” states Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, chairperson of the read more…
New URL for: Science and Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
“Science and Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda” written by Jonathan Latham PhD, Executive Director of the Bioscience Resource Project, was published on July 31st in Independent Science News. A Denial of Service Attack shut down the ISN website for several days. ISN is now back online and “Science and Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda” has been republished on a new URL: http://www.independentsciencenews.org/science-media/science-and-social-control-political-paralysis-and-the-genetics-agenda/.
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