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The Bioscience Resource Project provides scientific and intellectual resources for a healthy future. It publishes Independent Science News, a media service devoted to food and agriculture, and their impacts on health and the environment. It also offers resources for scientists and educators and internships and training for students. Through its innovative scientific journalism and original biosafety review articles, the project provides unique and revealing perspectives on issues that are fundamental to the survival of people and the planet. The project does not accept advertising or corporate funding and is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization. It is completely dependent on individual donations.We invite you to join the Project as a contributor or a donor.
Bioscience Resource Project News and Views
New Resources: Corporate Control and Promoting True Scientific Debate
Corporate agendas exert a major influence over important areas of science-based policy, including support for a “new green economy.” An understanding of “who owns what” illuminates just who will benefit from “the new green economy” — and casts doubt that it will be either the public or the environment. Two new resources on BSR’s Biotechnology Resource Page, the full report entitled Who Will Control the Green Economy? (2011) by The ETC Group and “The Big Six: A Profile of Corporate Power in Seeds, Agrochemicals and Biotech” by Hope Shand in the Heritage Farm Companion, document the major players and discuss the research and policy implications of corporate control of industries including food and agriculture, energy, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals.
The third new Biotechnology resource, Underlying Reasons of the Controversy over Adverse Effects of Bt toxins on Lady Beetle and Lacewing Larvae (2012) by Hilbeck et al., discusses distortions to the scientific debate over Bt biosafety and describe protocols to ensure that scientific debate relies on rigorous discussion of high quality scientific research and not on faulty assumptions and personal attacks. Without such precautions, biosafety research can be manipulated to serve interests other than those of the public and will fail to safeguard human and environmental health.
New Resources: Gas Drilling and Livestock, Farming and Democracy, earthopensource, and the ETC group.
Four new resources have been added to the Agriculture resources page. Impacts of Gas Drilling on Human and Animal Health (2012) documents harmful health effects of gas drilling on livestock and humans living near gas wells and suggests multiple risks for healthy food and agriculture. Too Few Farms and These Too Large (2012) argues large scale farming undermines democracy with far reaching consequences for human health and rural communities. The websites earthopensource and the ETC group produce important agriculture-related resources on topics including genetic engineering, food sovereignty, intellectual property rights, and sustainable solutions.
New Resources: Golden Rice, GWAS, and Bisphenol A
The Project website has added three important new resources. Under Biotechology is the new foodwatch report: Golden Lies: The Seed Industry’s Questionable Golden Rice Project (2012). It describes the real reason industry and pro-GMO scientists are pushing Vitamin A rice – and it’s not to further scientific or humanitarian goals. Under Food is the classic Why Public Health Agencies Cannot Depend on Good Laboratory Practices as a Criterion for Selecting Data: The Case of Bisphenol A (2009) in which a long list of scientists expose the faulty industry “science” behind the U.S. FDA’s controversial decision to declare the endocrine disruptor Bisphenol A safe for human consumption. On the Science and Scientists resource page Learning from our GWAS Mistakes: from Experimental Design to Scientific Method (2012) reveals important flaws in GWAS methodology and includes vital lessons for all scientists on how to avoid and learn from scientific mistakes.
Welcome to the Redesigned Bioscience Resource Project Website
Today we are launching the redesigned Bioscience Resource Project website. We have added more information about the Project on the About Us pages and we have reorganized our Resources into specific categories. Two other big changes are the creation of the Independent Science News (ISN) website and the addition of Project News and Views. The original news articles and news links, commentaries and book reviews that used to be housed on the Bioscience Resource Project website are now found on ISN. Project News and Views will contain updates on the news and activities of the Project itself.
This website will continue to grow and change as new resources are added to the Publications and Resources pages.
We hope you enjoy the new website and we welcome your constructive feedback.
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Independent Science News
- 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
- Open for Military Business: Ebola Research at Canada’s Only BSL-4 Lab September 27, 2021
- Phylogeographic Mapping of Newly Discovered Coronaviruses Pinpoints the Direct Progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 as Originating from Mojiang, China August 2, 2021