Naomi Salmon, Department of Law and Criminology, Aberystwyth University, Wales, UK Following hot on the heels of the ‘Biotechnology Revolution’, the ‘Nanotechnology Revolution’ is now gathering steam. After twenty or so years of basic and …
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US Crop Yield Increases Owe Little to Biotechnology
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson The latest advertising campaign from Monsanto claims that already its “advanced seeds… significantly increase crop yields…”, while since the mid-1990s the biotechnology industry has consistently proposed that higher yielding genetically …
Continue readingHow the Science Media Failed the IAASTD
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Note: An excellent complementary piece, from one of the IAASTD authors, is: The IAASTD report and some of its fallout – a personal note By Dr. Angelika Hilbeck, ETH Zurich, …
Continue readingDoes the Bio-Economy Add Up?
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Experts do not have an entirely unblemished record of predicting the future of agriculture. In the 1950s it was envisioned that farms would be irrigated with water from icecaps that …
Continue readingStudy Questions Application of Animal Experiments to Humans
Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson Much of science, including healthcare research and important fields of risk assessment, depend, in part or in whole, on the presumption that animal models can usefully predict human responses to …
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