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Messengers of Gates’ Agenda: How the Cornell Alliance for Science Spreads Disinformation on behalf of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

December 1, 2020
Farmers practicing agroecology in Kenya

by Heather Day/AGRA Watch In October of this year, the Cornell Alliance for Science (CAS) hosted a webinar on “agroecology,” a concept that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Agroecology is a transdisciplinary science, …

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The Long History of Accidental Laboratory Releases of Potential Pandemic Pathogens Is Being Ignored In the COVID-19 Media Coverage

May 5, 2020
usamriid high containment lab

by Sam Husseini Many people are dismissing the possibility that the COVID-19 pandemic might have come from a lab. It is possible that they are unaware of the frequency of biohazards escaping from laboratories. On Feb. …

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Biotechnology, News, Science Media

Gates Foundation Grants Additional $6.4 million to Cornell’s Controversial Alliance for Science

November 1, 2017
Cornell alliance fellows map

In a presentation yesterday at Cornell, Alliance for Science Director, Sarah Evanega, revealed that her organisation had received “a renewed contribution” of $6.4 million from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Originally endowed with $5.6 …

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God’s Red Pencil? CRISPR and The Three Myths of Precise Genome Editing

April 25, 2016

by Jonathan Latham, PhD For the benefit of those parts of the world where public acceptance of biotechnology is incomplete, a public relations blitz is at full tilt. It concerns an emerging set of methods …

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Biotechnology, Commentaries, Science Media

The GMO Dark Act Cannot Survive the Light

December 11, 2015
Mike Pompeo, Kansas

by Steven M. Druker An ardent attempt is afoot on Capitol Hill to prevent states from requiring the labeling of genetically engineered foods – made especially urgent by the fact that Vermont’s labeling bill is …

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