Independent Scientists Object to Monsanto-Sponsored Documentary
I am writing both in my capacity as Director of the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) and a member of the Independent Science Panel (ISP)
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st September 2005 |
GMOs and Human Health
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho told the People's Health Assembly that GM is proving bad for health because it goes against the grain of the new genetics science
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 16th August 2005 |
Sustainable World Coming
Independent scientists, economists, politicians, and activists met to share knowledge and ideas for sustainable food systems as the industrial model is close to collapse. Rhea Gala reports on the Sustainable World First International Conference
Rhea Gala 8th August 2005 |
Keep GM Out of Europe!
Independent scientists, politicians and farmers have joined up to call for a GM-free Europe, and for urgent support for non-GM sustainable agriculture.
Lim Li Ching 26th October 2004 |
ISP News - Meacher Calls for Enquiry into GM Safety
Michael Meacher joined the ISP to call for an extended enquiry into GM safety, transparency and independence in scientific research, and an end to the victimisation of scientists whose research findings are 'inconvenient' for industry.
Lim Li Ching 7th May 2004 |
CLASH of the TITANS - Two Leading Scientists Come to Coventry for Last Chance GM Debate
Two leading scientists in genetic modification will pay a one off visit to Coventry next Tuesday. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho FROM the Institute of Science in Society will speak against commercialisation of GM and Professor Phil Mullineaux of the John Innes Institute will present the case in favour
ISIS 10th July 2003 |
Public Say No to GMOs
Sam Burcher summarises polls worldwide, which consistently show rejection of GMOs
Sam Burcher 4th July 2003 |
The GM Debacle. Bad Science + Big Business = ?
African Consumer Leaders' Conference on Biotechnology & Food Security, November 18-20, Lusaka, Zambia
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 27th November 2002 |
Recent Evidence Confirms Risks of Horizontal Gene Transfer
ISIS Contribution to ACNFP/Food Standards Agency Open Meeting 13 November 2002
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 10th November 2002 |
Chief Scientist Bob May Lambastes Human Genetics Panel
Report on the Welcome Trust Celebration of the Human Genome at the Royal Society 22 March
Nick Papadimitriou and Angela Ryan 25th April 2001 |
Taking Science Seriously in the GM Debate
Contribution to Committee on Agricultural Biotechnology, Health, and the Environment Workshop, The National Academies, Washington DC, 16 April 2001
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 18th April 2001 |
Can biotechnology help fight world hunger?
Special Forum organized by Congressman Tony Hall, Capitol Hill, Washington DC, 29 June 2000
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 5th July 2000 |
GM Crops - How Corporations Rule and Ruin the World
The proposal that agricultural biotechnology is vital for the future of the developing world can immediately be contradicted if we are talking about GM crops. Evidence is building up that they are unsafe, unsound and unsustainable.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th June 2000 |
GM Food Hazards and the Science War
Consumer Choice Council, Seattle
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st December 1999 |
What do you get when you cross a spider with a goat?
You know the children's joke of what do you get when you cross impossible things like a spider with a goat? Part of the joke is knowing you can't because there are biological barriers between species which only allow one to cross closely related species such as horse and donkey, for example.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 26th October 1999 |
Guardian Debate - 28th Feb 99
Steve Jones, Professor of Genetics at UCL last night admitted that he
Angela Ryan 28th February 1999 |
Natural versus artificial genetic engineering
The following reply to Trewavas and Leaver's long correspondence in Nature was rejected on ground that 'no new point' was raised. I am posting it again in case T&L's fallacious argument is taken seriously by anyone
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
Being Human- Science, Ethics and Our Rights - An ICA/Index Debate
An ICA/Index Debate
Angela Ryan |
Genetically Modified GM crops are neither needed nor beneficial
They are a dangerous diversion from the real task of providing food and health around the world
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
Oxford Union Debate 14th June 1999
Angela Ryan |
Wormy Corn Paper Must be Retracted
Open Letter to British Food Journal Editor & Editorial Board. We, the undersigned, are writing to request the Editor and the Editorial Board of the British Food Journal (BFJ) to retract the published article "Agronomic and consumer considerations for Bt and conventional sweet corn" and to withdraw its “Award for Excellence for Most Outstanding Paper in 2004”. This paper, purporting to show that consumers prefer to buy genetically modified (GM) Bt sweet corn over conventional sweet corn, is highly misleading, if not a "flagrant fraud", as it is based on manipulations of the shoppers' preference, not reported in the paper
ISIS 23rd January 2008 |
Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Prepublication Review Yes, But Review Panel Must be Balanced
Letter to editor Andrew Marshall in response to the call for suggestions in the December 2007 issue of Nature Biotechnology
Prof. Peter Saunders 9th January 2008 |
Letter to Nature Biotechnology: Systematic bias in favour of no adverse impacts from GM feed
Letter to Nature Biotechnology in response to the article defending the "new format" feature on Ermakova's findings of adverse health and reproductive impacts on rats fed genetically modified (GM) soya, and on the validity of the "scientific criticisms" of her work.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th January 2008 |
No to GMOs, No to GM Science
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the scandals of GM science that promotes GM crops in the face of damning evidence for health and the environment, and warns that further indulgence in GMOs will severely damage our chances of surviving global warming
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th June 2007 |
Lectures in The Philippines
The Precautionary Principle / Making the World Sustainable & GM-Free
Prof. Peter Saunders and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 9th January 2006 |
Expert witness statement on the safety of GM food and feed
Prepared by Dr. Mae-Wan Ho for the defence of Greenpeace protestors arrested for demonstrating against GM feed
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 24th October 2005 |
Letter to José Maurício Bustani
The Independent Science Panel (ISP) writes to the Brazilian government to urge them to stop growing GM soya and indeed, any other GM crop, in Brazil.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 18th August 2005 |
GMOs and Human Health
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho told the People's Health Assembly that GM is proving bad for health because it goes against the grain of the new genetics science
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 16th August 2005 |
Sustainable World Coming
Independent scientists, economists, politicians, and activists met to share knowledge and ideas for sustainable food systems as the industrial model is close to collapse. Rhea Gala reports on the Sustainable World First International Conference
Rhea Gala 8th August 2005 |
Europe Holding Firm Against GMOs
A strict German law to protect GM-free agriculture followed by majority votes against lifting bans on GM food and feed
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Rhea Gala 11th January 2005 |
Fluid Genome & Beyond
Invited lecture presented at The Precautionary Principle in Science and Politics, Federation of German Scientist Conference, 22-23 October 2004, Marie-Elisabeth-Luders Haus & Magnus Haus, Berlin
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 29th November 2004 |
ISP News - Meacher Calls for Enquiry into GM Safety
Michael Meacher joined the ISP to call for an extended enquiry into GM safety, transparency and independence in scientific research, and an end to the victimisation of scientists whose research findings are 'inconvenient' for industry.
Lim Li Ching 7th May 2004 |
GM Food & Feed Not Fit for "Man or Beast"
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins review some of the scientific evidence behind a series of recent scandals involving the safety of GM food and feed. They expose fatal flaws in the regulatory process and highlight how Europe is in danger of approving GM varieties that are genetically unstable and hence illegal as well as unsafe. They demand a full enquiry into the abuse of science that has allowed GM crops not fit for human or animal consumption to enter our food chain.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho & Prof.Joe Cummins 7th May 2004 |
Letter to the California Department of Food and Agriculture
A letter written to the Secretary of Food and Agriculture and Govenor Arnold Scharzenegger outlining concerns over Biopharmeceutical rice in California
Prof. Joe Cummins & Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th April 2004 |
Independent Science Panel for Biosafety
Independent Science Panel (ISP) members Dr. Susan Bardocz, Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, Lim Li Ching and Dr. Arpad Pusztai attended MOP 1. Between them, they actively followed the negotiations and carried out many activities around the meeting. These included speaking at major side events, giving numerous interviews to journalists and independent film-makers, taking part in an hour-long programme for Malaysian national television, and providing informal advice to NGOs and government delegates
Martin Khor and Lim Li Lin 8th March 2004 |
ISP letter to the President of Croatia
Re: Croatias stance on GM crops
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th July 2003 |
Schmeiser's Battle for the Seed
What makes a farmer FROM a small rural community in Saskatchewan stand up to Monsanto? And possibly, win?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th July 2003 |
Genetically Modifying Science
The concerted campaign to suppress and misinform over GM science continues. Will the scientific establishment dare to debate the scientific evidence in public, in terms that the public can understand?
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 27th June 2003 |
Letter to President Lula
re: Brasilian governments stance on transgenic soya
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 8th June 2003 |
The Case for A GM-Free Sustainable World
Hear the real evidence from the newly constituted
Independent Science Panel 10th May 2003 |
Biotech Debacle in Four Parts
1. Stock Market Plummets, Investment Dries Up, Companies shut down R&D
2. Recent Evidence of Genetic Biohazards
3. GM crops rejected worldwide
4. Biosafety regulations tighten worldwide
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Lim Li Ching 28th October 2002 |
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Replies to Aventis in Chardon LL Public Hearing
Aventis applied to place herbicide-tolerant transgenic maize Chardon LL on UK National Seed List in 2000. This provoked such widespread objection that a public hearing was held later that year. But the hearing was adjourned when it transpired that Chardon LL did not pass the requisite test for distinctness, uniformity and stability (DUS).
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th June 2002 |
Letter To The Scottish Parliament Petitions Committee
I am writing to support the Munlochy Vigil petition, to call for an immediate end to GM OSR trials in Scotland and for a full Parliamentary debate, with a free vote on the issue of GM crops in Scotland.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4th March 2002 |
GM Maize Approved on Bad Science
A four-hour public hearing on Aventis’ T25 GM maize left no doubt that its market approval was a scientific sham from beginning to end
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 25th February 2002 |
The Best Kept Secret of GM Crops
Witness Statement to ACRE For ACRE open hearing on the criticisms of T25 GM maize risk assessment
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th February 2002 |
Defending Bové‚ Defending Independent Science
Scientists and farmers, North and South, joined hands in a day of action defending democracy and independent science. Dr. MaeWan Ho reports on her visit to Montpellier November 22, 2001.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 3rd December 2001 |
Witness Statement for Defence of Jos‚ Bove and Dominique Soulier
22 November 2001, Montpellier, France
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 3rd December 2001 |
ISIS Letter to Sri Lankan Government
GM technology is overwhelmingly rejected by citizens all over the world as a dangerous technology in the service of corporations and acting against the common good
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 22nd August 2001 |
ISIS Letter to Indonesian Government re GM Cotton
It is becoming increasingly evident that GM technology is inherently hazardous both in agriculture and in medicine. The most recent findings are summarized as a letter to the Indonesian government
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th August 2001 |
Comments on- Environment Assessment- Confined field study of a transgenic pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella
Environment assessment of the confined field study of a transgenic pink bollworm, Pectinophera gossypiella was prepared by US Department of Agriculture
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins 4th July 2001 |
Open Letter to Scientific Steering Committee on Farmscale Field Trials
We are writing to express our concern that the UK farmscale field trials of Aventis Chardon LL GM maize and other GM crops should not continue. Any new technology must be tested, but there are important scientific issues that must be addressed
I-SIS 15th May 2001 |
UK GMO Field Trials – A Tragi-Comedy of Errors
The 4th AEBC meeting on the UK GMO field trials exploded the ridiculous farce of the whole affair.
Angela Ryan 16th March 2001 |
Open Letter to New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering
It is becoming increasingly evident that GM technology is inherently hazardous both in agriculture and in medicine. The most recent findings are summarized as a letter to the NewZealand government
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 13th March 2001 |
ISIS Consultation to the Highlands and Islands Council
Evidence on GM Crops Presented to the Highlands and Islands Council, Inverness, Scotland.
Angela Ryan 9th March 2001 |
Witness Brief Ocober 26 2000
Royal Commission on Genetic Modification
I-SIS 26th October 2000 |
Transcript of witness Statement by Mae-Wan Ho
Chardon LL Public Hearing
I-SIS 26th October 2000 |
Chardon LL Public Hearing Ocober 26 2000 on behalf of Burnham Group
I am giving evidence on behalf of the Burham Group, to object to the proposed decision to add Chardon LL Aventis –T25 Maize to the National List
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 26th October 2000 |
Open Letter from World Scientists to All Governments
We, the undersigned scientists, call for the immediate suspension of all environmental releases of GM crops and products, both commercially and in open field trials
ISIS 1st September 2000 |
Re- The proposed decision to add Chardon LL Aventis -T25 Maize to the National List
Written representations pursuant to and expressive of a desire to be heard for the purpose of Regulation 21 of the Seeds (National List of Varieties), Regulations 1982
I-SIS 20th April 2000 |
Genetic Engineering Biotechnology - Challenges and Opportunities
Academy of Sciences, Kuala Lumpur, May 28, 1999
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 28th May 1999 |
Affidavit submitted by Mae-Wan Ho
Greenpeace
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 12th August 1998 |
Big Business = Bad Science?
Commercial pressures are distorting academic science and society is not getting the full benefit from the science it is paying for
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders |
Witness Statement for New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering
Dr. MaeWan Ho, Director of ISIS is giving evidence to the New Zealand Royal Commission on Genetic Engineering Today by video conferencing
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
Beyond Bad Science and Big Business
Lecture for Big Money Bad Science Teachin on globalisation and genetic engineering, Vogue Theatre Vancouver, November 10, 2000
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
Turning the Tide On the Brave New World
This paper explains the science and technology of genetic engineering to expose the misinformation and disinformation put out by the industry and their supporters, including many of the scientists researching and exploiting the technology
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
Letter to the New Zealand Minister of Food and Fibre
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
The Biotechnology Debate has United the World against Corporate Rule
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho |
Special Safety Concerns of Transgenic Agriculture and Related Issues
I-SIS |
Witness Statement
Three issues in the safety of genetically modified crops
Prof. Joe Cummins |
