ISIS is an independent not-for-profit organisation dedicated to providing critical yet accessible science-based information to influence social and policy changes towards a sustainable, equitable world. We have made key inputs into debates worldwide on genetic modification, climate change, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, AIDS, holistic health and more http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ Abundant evidence points to the enormous potential for improving intellectual abilities (and health) through simple environmental and social interventions Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/How_to_Improve_the_Brain_Power_and_Health_of_a_Nation.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/How_to_Improve_the_Brain_Power_and_Health_of_a_Nation.php Wed, 1 Feb 2012 12:01:01 GMT Extensive genome-wide scans have failed to find a single gene for intelligence; instead, environment and maternal effects may account for most, if not all correlation among relatives, while identical twins diverge genetically and epigenetically throughout life. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/No_Genes_for_Intelligence_in_the_Human_Genome.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/No_Genes_for_Intelligence_in_the_Human_Genome.php Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT Genome-wide scans for genes that determine susceptibility to common diseases have yielded little because most of those genes do not exist; disease genomics is a science fantasy that wastes time and money while the health of the nation deteriorates. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mystery_of_Missing_Heritability_Solved.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mystery_of_Missing_Heritability_Solved.php Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT Not only is French nuclear power nowhere near as safe as has been portrayed, it is also far from cost-effective, to put it mildly. Susie Greaves. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_True_Costs_of_French_Nuclear_Power.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_True_Costs_of_French_Nuclear_Power.php Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT Coalition of doctors, health professionals and researchers demand ban on aerial spraying based on evidence documenting increase in pesticide-related illnesses since the introduction of GM soya. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Pesticide_illnesses_and_GM_soya.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Pesticide_illnesses_and_GM_soya.php Wed, 18 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT French nuclear power is far from safe, and the government covered up effects of the Chernobyl disaster on French people. Susie Greaves. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/French_Nuclear_Power_Not_Safe.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/French_Nuclear_Power_Not_Safe.php Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT The new Truly Green Economy needs to be modeled after and embedded within the circular economy of nature to generate and regenerate wealth for people and planet. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Living_Green_and_Circular.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Living_Green_and_Circular.php Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT Glyphosate Hazards to Crops, Soils, Animals, and Consumers. Don Huber painted a devastating picture of glyphosate and GM crops at UK Parliament. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDA_scientist_reveals_all.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDA_scientist_reveals_all.php Mon, 9 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT Away from the headlines, a new economy is taking shape through financial innovations on the Main Street and grassroots local action. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/New_Economy_Now.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/New_Economy_Now.php Wed, 4 Jan 2012 12:01:01 GMT Monsanto's Harpin a potential health hazard but natural extract from giant knotweed is best for 'man and beasties' Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Plant_Immune_System_Spawns_New_Biopesticides.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Plant_Immune_System_Spawns_New_Biopesticides.php Mon, 19 Dec 2011 12:01:01 GMT The claim that genetically modified organisms are the most promising way of increasing crop yields is falsified by many independent scientific studies, as well as direct experience with GM crops in India, China, Argentina and the United States. Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji reviews evidence on Bt crops http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_crops_failures_and_hazards.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_crops_failures_and_hazards.php Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:01:01 GMT The money and banking system that has brought the world’s economy to its knees should be allowed to collapse in favour of an alternative that serves people and planet. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Shut_Down_Wall_Street.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Shut_Down_Wall_Street.php Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:01:01 GMT Biogas plants provide organic fertilizer and sustainable energy to increase crop yield and supply households with clean safe energy. Sue Edwards with Fentaw Ejigu and Hailu Araya from Institute of Sustainable Development http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Biogas_Plant_or_Smallholder_Farmers_in_Ethiopia.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Biogas_Plant_or_Smallholder_Farmers_in_Ethiopia.php Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:01:01 GMT 1 000 Kg per Mu in 10 Years. Prof. Li Kangmin http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Chinese_Dream_Come_True.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Chinese_Dream_Come_True.php Mon, 5 Dec 2011 12:01:01 GMT Tiny RNA molecules in food eaten can circulate in the bloodstream and turn genes off in the body; what are the implications of eating genetically modified food? Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/How_Food_Affects_Genes.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/How_Food_Affects_Genes.php Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT An explosion of glyphosate resistant weeds forces Monsanto to run away from farmers’ rising weed control costs. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Monsanto_defeated_by_herbicide_resistant_superweeds.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Monsanto_defeated_by_herbicide_resistant_superweeds.php Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT The latest episode in the unfolding saga of the fluid genome reveals widespread non-random changes in the RNA messages transcribed from genomic DNA. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mismatch_of_RNA_to_DNA_widespread.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mismatch_of_RNA_to_DNA_widespread.php Wed, 23 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT Quantum jazz is my metaphor for the quantum coherence of organisms in which every single molecular player is spontaneous and free yet perfectly in step and in tune with the whole. This remarkable state of being depends on the liquid crystalline water matrix that enables each molecule to intercommunicate with every other, creating the most exquisite light and sound displays that span 70 octaves in all the colours of the rainbow. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ISIS_Lecture_Quantum_Jazz_Naples.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ISIS_Lecture_Quantum_Jazz_Naples.php Mon, 21 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT Correspondence from Science in Society magazine http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS52lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS52lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 16 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT Global Diabetes Epidemic Rages On / Diabetes Epidemic / Art/science Essay / Truth and Beauty / Physics of Organisms / Letters to the Editor / Freeing the World from GMOs / New Physics / Technology Watch http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety52.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety52.php Mon, 14 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT The promises of pharm crops undermined by threats to health and environment. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Pharm_Crops_Ignoring_the_Environment.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Pharm_Crops_Ignoring_the_Environment.php Wed, 9 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT Quasicrystal structure based on the golden mean won Daniel Shechtman the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry; Dr. Mae-Wan Ho finds out why it is a thing of beauty http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Golden_Mean_Wins_Chemistry_Nobe_Prize.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Golden_Mean_Wins_Chemistry_Nobe_Prize.php Mon, 7 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT New nuclear magnetic resonance study of proteins in nanospace reveals hidden water protein correlations over an enormous range of time scales Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Proteins_secret_water_music_in_nanospace.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Proteins_secret_water_music_in_nanospace.php Wed, 2 Nov 2011 12:01:01 GMT The emergence of more Bt-resistant pests is further proof of the futility of Bt crops. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_resistant_rootworm_spreads.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_resistant_rootworm_spreads.php Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT Looks promising for some. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Treating_Diabetes_With_a_Glucagon_Like_Peptide.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Treating_Diabetes_With_a_Glucagon_Like_Peptide.php Wed, 26 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT We still do not understand diabetes, but where diet and exercise fail, some surprisingly common foods may help Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Diabetes_New_Cures_from_Old_Foods.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Diabetes_New_Cures_from_Old_Foods.php Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT Liraglutide, a synthetic long-lasting glucagon-like peptide appears to have the perfect ability to control blood glucose, except for potential risk of a rare thyroid cancer. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/New_diabetic_drug_and_cancer_risk.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/New_diabetic_drug_and_cancer_risk.php Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT The upward trend shows no sign of abating, governments need to empower people to make the necessary ‘lifestyle’ changes. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Global_Diabetes_Epidemic_Rages_On.php Mon, 17 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT How quantum coherent water in the liquid crystalline cell is really responsible for the membrane potential that determines its vital states, and is crucial for energy and signal transduction. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Electronic_Induction_Animates_the_Cell.php Wed, 12 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT ISIS contribution to Earth Music Bristol, 18-26 November 2011, Bristol, UK http://www.i-sis.org.uk/A_scientists_earth_music.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/A_scientists_earth_music.php Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT The morphogenetic field that determines pattern in early embryogenesis may be written in liquid crystal phase alignments through electrodyamic patterning processes. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Liquid_Crystalline_Morphogenetic_Field.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Liquid_Crystalline_Morphogenetic_Field.php Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT ISIS sponsored forthcoming event, St George's Bristol in association with BBC radio 3 presents a landmark festival of music, images and words, inspired by the natural world. The first festival of its kind, with some of the country's top musicians, artists and writers in a wide selection of events, from concerts and readings to exhibitions, plus a few surprises along the way. Composer and natural scientist Edward Cowie is the festival's founder and artistic director. St George's Bristol's director Suzanne Rolt is co-director. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/temp/EarthMusicBristol.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/temp/EarthMusicBristol.php Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:01:01 GMT Time to end the obsession with genes and pay more attention to dynamic processes that generate patterns and forms. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Genes_dont_Generate_Body_Patterns.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Genes_dont_Generate_Body_Patterns.php Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT Geoengineering, like banking, can affect the whole world, and again like banking, has no international regulation, which is urgently needed. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Skyhook_to_save_the_climate.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Skyhook_to_save_the_climate.php Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT An electric property universal to all cells turns out to determine their vital states, from cell division and pattern formation to differentiation, regeneration, and cancer; lending support to the electrodynamics basis of life. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Membrane_potential_rules.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Membrane_potential_rules.php Wed, 21 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT Glyphosate destruction of monarch butterfly breeding grounds suspected. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_and_Monarch_Butterfly_Decline.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_and_Monarch_Butterfly_Decline.php Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT The Fukushima disaster has rekindled interest in thorium reactors, which may be both safer and more economical as their proponents claim, but do we need nuclear power at all? Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Thorium_the_answer_to_clean_energy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Thorium_the_answer_to_clean_energy.php Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT How cold fusion and antigravity experiments led engineer/physicist Frank Znidarsic to a new causal theory that relates all natural forces and might well have interested Einstein; but is he right? Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_Z_theory_of_everything.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_Z_theory_of_everything.php Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT Interview by Emma Hughes of Red Pepper magazine http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mae-Wan_Ho_on_Science_and_Democracy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mae-Wan_Ho_on_Science_and_Democracy.php Wed, 7 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT I write in support of a worldwide ban on glyphosate and glyphosate-based herbicides on behalf of the Institute of Science in Society (ISIS), a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to reclaiming science for the public good. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_letter_for_Ventura_county.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_letter_for_Ventura_county.php Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT A meta-analysis on 19 studies confirms kidney and liver toxicity in rats and mice fed on GM soybean and maize, representing more than 80 percent of all commercially available GM food; it also exposes gross inadequacies of current risk assessment. Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Feed_toxic_new_metaanalysis_confirms.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Feed_toxic_new_metaanalysis_confirms.php Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:01:01 GMT US Academy scientists’ public attack on EPA proposal on regulation of GMOs misdirected, misleading, and irrelevant; deregulation is likely to destroy the export market for US crops altogether. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NinaFederoffMisfiresAtEPAsModestProposal.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/NinaFederoffMisfiresAtEPAsModestProposal.php Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:01:01 GMT Genetically modified bluegrass deregulation marks the beginning of the end of a toothless regulatory regime for GMOs. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDA_Creeping_towards_Regulatory_Shutdown.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/USDA_Creeping_towards_Regulatory_Shutdown.php Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:01:01 GMT Correspondence from Science in Society magazine http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS51lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS51lettersToTheEditor.php Tue, 9 Aug 2011 12:01:01 GMT How Off-Grid Renewables and Small Farms Can Save the World / Wireless Damages Brain / Science for Democracy / Deadly E. coli Outbreak / Quantum Biology and Medicine / Letters to the Editor / Technology Watch / Food Crisis / Freeing the World from GMOs http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety51.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety51.php Mon, 8 Aug 2011 12:01:01 GMT With the Fukushima crisis still running, many countries are shifting away from nuclear power. India and the UK, however, are still firmly committed Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Fukushima_fallout.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Fukushima_fallout.php Wed, 3 Aug 2011 12:01:01 GMT Erroneous claim of EFSA exposes the underlying inadequacies of current surveillance systems especially in the face of rampant horizontal gene transfer and recombination. Prof. J. Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/E_coli_infections_not_exclusive_to_human.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/E_coli_infections_not_exclusive_to_human.php Mon, 1 Aug 2011 12:01:01 GMT How quantum coherent water may account for specific biological effects of very weak electromagnetic fields, and possibly homeopathy. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Quantum_Coherent_Water_Homeopathy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Quantum_Coherent_Water_Homeopathy.php Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT Water is quantum coherent under ordinary conditions, according to a quantum electrodynamics field theory that may explain many of its most paradoxical properties including life itself. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Quantum_Coherent_Water_Life.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Quantum_Coherent_Water_Life.php Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT Water carrying only the electromagnetic signature of a DNA sequence can make a replica of the sequence out of simple building blocks, according to Nobel laureate HIV researcher. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DNA_sequence_reconstituted_from_Water_Memory.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DNA_sequence_reconstituted_from_Water_Memory.php Wed, 20 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT Small integrated farms with off-grid renewable energy may be the perfect solution to the food and financial crisis while mitigating and adapting to climate change. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableAgricultureOffGridRenewableEnergy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableAgricultureOffGridRenewableEnergy.php Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT The European Commission approved glyphosate knowing, as Monsanto did, that it causes birth defects, while the public were kept in the dark, the herbicide must now be banned. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EU_Regulators_Monsanto_Glyphosate_Toxicity.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EU_Regulators_Monsanto_Glyphosate_Toxicity.php Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT A model local initiative for banning GMOs. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Nijmegen_Declared_GM-Free.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Nijmegen_Declared_GM-Free.php Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT Laboratory experiments show that electromagnetic fields from mobile phones destroy the blood brain barrier and damage neurons even 50 days after a single exposure in rats. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mobile_Phones_Damage_the_Brain.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Mobile_Phones_Damage_the_Brain.php Wed, 6 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT Eliminating carbon from power plant emissions is cost-prohibitive and environmentally counterproductive Jeffrey H. Michel http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Carbon_Capture_Storage_Still_Not_An_Option.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Carbon_Capture_Storage_Still_Not_An_Option.php Mon, 4 Jul 2011 12:01:01 GMT A deadly new strain that has picked up the Shiga toxin genes with the help of a virus that smuggles genes between bacteria. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/E_coli_O104_H4_Newly_Emergent_Pathogen.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/E_coli_O104_H4_Newly_Emergent_Pathogen.php Wed, 29 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Greatly assisted horizontal gene transfer and recombination turned previously harmless bacteria into dangerous pathogens. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Genetic_Engineering_E_coli_Outbreak.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Genetic_Engineering_E_coli_Outbreak.php Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Cordless phones similar to mobile phones for increased risks to brain tumours, especially for the young, where the risks are five times for users compared with controls. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Wireless_Phones_and_Brain_Cancer.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Wireless_Phones_and_Brain_Cancer.php Wed, 22 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Civil society and private sector organisations come together to fight introduction of GM technology. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AfricanAlliancesChallengeGM.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AfricanAlliancesChallengeGM.php Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Latest reviews conclude 10 years exposure increases brain tumour risks especially for the young. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EEA_Highlight_Mobile_Phone_Cancer_Risks.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EEA_Highlight_Mobile_Phone_Cancer_Risks.php Wed, 15 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Veteran world watcher Lester Brown sounds dire warning of spreading political unrest, conflicts, and deepening division between rich and poor as food prices soar and supply falls further and further behind rising demand, but does not point to obvious solution. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_New_Politics_of_Food_Scarcity.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_New_Politics_of_Food_Scarcity.php Tue, 14 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT ISIS letter to the Municipal Council of Dutch city Nijmegen. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Free_Nijmegen.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Free_Nijmegen.php Mon, 13 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Radiofrequency electromagnetic fields hazardous to health, says the World Health Organization, after decades of denial; European Parliament recognizes non-thermal EMF effects along with the precautionary principle, calling for lower exposure limits and "genuine independence" of scientific research and expertise. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Wireless_phone_radiation_possibly_carcinogenic.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Wireless_phone_radiation_possibly_carcinogenic.php Wed, 8 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Prototype device tested in public with impressive results, and commercial production scheduled to begin end of 2011, but naysayers call it a scam. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Cold_Fusion_Ready_for_Commercial_Production.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Cold_Fusion_Ready_for_Commercial_Production.php Mon, 6 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Video Clip of Julian Voss Andreae on "Quantum Sculptures". From the Celebrating ISIS - Quantum Jazz Biology event, March 2011. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-Quantum_Sculptures.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-Quantum_Sculptures.php Wed, 1 Jun 2011 12:01:01 GMT Irresponsible labelling of GM soybean by British supermarkets aims to deceive the public over the true hazards of GM crops. Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UK_Supermarkets_to_label_GM_soybean_sustainable.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UK_Supermarkets_to_label_GM_soybean_sustainable.php Tue, 31 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Video Clip of 'sonic poet' Edward Cowie performing "Birds as Composers". From the Celebrating ISIS - Quantum Jazz Biology event, March 2011. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-Birds_as_Composers.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-Birds_as_Composers.php Wed, 25 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Ordinary cells can be induced to become pluripotent stem cells, making it unnecessary to use human embryos, but is it safe? Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Induced_Pluripotent_Stem_Cells.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Induced_Pluripotent_Stem_Cells.php Tue, 24 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Correspondence from Science in Society magazine http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS50lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS50lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 18 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT From the Editors / Special Report - Fukushima Nuclear Crisis / Freeing the World from GMOs / Letters to the Editor / Celebrating ISIS / ISIS essay / Green Development / No to Cloned Animals / Technology Watch http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety50.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety50.php Tue, 17 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Video clip of Jim Oschman on "Energy Medicine and Quantum Jazz". From the Celebrating ISIS - Quantum Jazz Biology event, March 2011. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-Energy_Medicine_and_Quantum_Jazz.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-Energy_Medicine_and_Quantum_Jazz.php Mon, 16 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Video clip of Dr. Mae-Wan Ho on "Why Beauty is Truth and Truth Beauty". From the Celebrating ISIS - Quantum Jazz Biology event, March 2011. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-why_beauty_is_truth.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time-why_beauty_is_truth.php Wed, 11 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT An important milestone in sustainable agriculture for Africa was reached in a little-publicized decision made on organic farming by the African Union’s Executive Council in January 2011. Lim Li Ching, Third World Network http://www.i-sis.org.uk/African_Union_to_Support_Organic_Farming.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/African_Union_to_Support_Organic_Farming.php Mon, 9 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Avant garde scientists and artists – Mae-Wan Ho, Jim Oschman, Peter Fisher, Edward Cowie, Heather Cowie, Michele Kappeli, Julian Voss-Andreae and others – transformed a wholefoods factory overnight into an art gallery and music/lecture hall to recover beauty and truth in science and art for the public good. The theme of the event, which took place over the weekend 26-27 March 2011, was quantum jazz, the sublime aesthetic of quantum coherence in living organisms and the living universe. Watch our film now! http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/event_of_a_life_time.php Thu, 5 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Chernobyl deaths many times the official figures and Fukushima not unanticipated. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Lessons_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Lessons_of_Fukushima_and_Chernobyl.php Tue, 3 May 2011 12:01:01 GMT Scientists attempting to create human-like transgenic cow's milk for large-scale human consumption despite grave concerns over health hazards and unacceptable animal suffering Prof Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/human_milk_from_cloned_transgenic_cattle.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/human_milk_from_cloned_transgenic_cattle.php Tue, 26 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT Senior scientist stands up for his claims amid storm of attacks; he deserves all our support Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ScientistDefendsHisClaimofNewPathogenLinkedtoGMCrops.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ScientistDefendsHisClaimofNewPathogenLinkedtoGMCrops.php Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT Inspired by ISIS' much acclaimed Avant Garde Art/Science Event to Recover Beauty and Truth, which took place 26-27 March 2011, when the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis triggered by the magnitude 9 earthquake and tsunami was threatening to get out of control, and has since been upgraded to level 7, on par with Chernobyl. The artists taking part have all exhibited at the event, and will donate 70 percent of the sale price to the victims (via one or more of the top charities identified by Time magazine), with the remaining 30 percent going back to the artist, or to future ISIS art/science events. This collection of artworks is unique for its beauty and diversity arising from the individual artist's passionate engagement with nature. http://www.isisart.org/Art_Sales_in_Aid_of_Japan http://www.isisart.org/Art_Sales_in_Aid_of_Japan Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT Leading scientists and artists turned a wholefood factory into an art gallery and music/lecture hall overnight to reclaim science and art for the public good; the theme of the event, which took place 26-27 March 2011, was 'quantum jazz', the sublime aesthetic of quantum coherence as the basis for a new understanding of the living system and the living universe. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Avant_Garde_ArtScience_Event.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Avant_Garde_ArtScience_Event.php Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT Fukushima is just one among many similar disasters waiting to happen worldwide; governments and regulators have systematically downplayed the risks and hidden the real costs of nuclear power; there is no place for nuclear in a truly green energy portfolio; furthermore, there is a lot we can do to put the nuclear genie back into the bottle. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Fukushima_Nuclear_Disaster.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Fukushima_Nuclear_Disaster.php Mon, 11 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT Solar power is making rapid headway in many African countries and women are the leading light. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LightingAfrica.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LightingAfrica.php Wed, 6 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT There is now widespread recognition that a rapid shift from industrial monoculture to sustainable farming is needed to save the climate and guarantee food security for all. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Sustainable_Agriculture_Urgently_Needed.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Sustainable_Agriculture_Urgently_Needed.php Mon, 4 Apr 2011 12:01:01 GMT Existing stem cells in the adult brain stimulated by drug to repair brain damage in animal models of multiple sclerosis. Dr. Eva Sirinathinghji http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Stem_Cell_Repair_without_Transplant.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Stem_Cell_Repair_without_Transplant.php Thur, 31 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT Government lab announced the end to cloning eight years after the scientist who pioneered the technique abandoned it for precisely the same reasons. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/death_rates_end_cloning.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/death_rates_end_cloning.php Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT Cloning by nuclear transplant is completely different from cloning by splitting embryos, and is closely associated with genetic modification of livestock to produce drugs in their milk; in deregulating cloned meat and milk, the European Commission will be approving the sale of highly unethical and unsafe products that are also illegal. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Cloned_Meat_and_Milk_Coming.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Cloned_Meat_and_Milk_Coming.php Wed, 16 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT Mae-Wan Ho, invited lecture Making Visible the Invisible Conference, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, UK, 10-11 March 2011 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/why_beauty_is_truth_and_truth_beauty.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/why_beauty_is_truth_and_truth_beauty.php Mon, 14 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT Celebrating ISIS Quantum Jazz Biology*Medicine*Art A weekend of art exhibitions, lectures, musical performances, urban organic forest garden, organic reception and dinner http://www.i-sis.org.uk/discoverTheTrulyAvantGardeInScience.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/discoverTheTrulyAvantGardeInScience.php Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT The organism is quantum coherent, with water playing the lead role in creating and maintaining the quantum coherence and in energizing the organism. Mae-Wan Ho Ph. D. Invited lecture for Sages and Scientists Symposium, 25-27 February 2011, La Costa Conference Center, Carlsbad, California http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ISIS_Lecture_Life_is_Waters_quantum_jazz.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ISIS_Lecture_Life_is_Waters_quantum_jazz.php Mon, 07 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT Genetically modified genes can jump species via wounds, yes horizontal gene transfer happens, and at high frequencies; it is the greatest, most underestimated hazard from GMOs released into the environment. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/new_route_for_GM_gene_escape.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/new_route_for_GM_gene_escape.php Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:01:01 GMT Correspondence from Science in Society magazine http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS49lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS49lettersToTheEditor.php Mon, 28 Feb 2011 12:01:01 GMT SIS Review: Michael Meacher. Destination of the Species. O Books, Winchester and Washington, 2010. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/doesGodHaveAMonopolyOnSpirituality.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/doesGodHaveAMonopolyOnSpirituality.php Thur, 24 Feb 2011 12:01:01 GMT US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on a new plant pathogen in Roundup Ready GM soybean and corn that may be responsible for high rates of infertility and spontaneous abortions in livestock. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/newPathogenInRoundupReadyGMCrops.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/newPathogenInRoundupReadyGMCrops.php Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:01:01 GMT From the Editors / Scientific Integrity / Letters to the Editor / 100% Renewables for the World / Save our Bees / Climate Watch / Biofuels Watch / SiS Review / Greening the World / Technology Watch http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety49.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety49.php Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:01:01 GMT Major pollinators apart from the honeybee are suffering steep decline worldwide, chief among them the bumblebee, and neonicotinoid pesticides are a major culprit that should be banned Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Plight_of_the_Bumblebee.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Plight_of_the_Bumblebee.php Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:01:01 GMT Preface to Celebrating ISIS, Quantum Jazz Biology, Medicine, Art. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/beautyAndTruthInScienceAndArt.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/beautyAndTruthInScienceAndArt.php Wed, 2 Feb 2011 12:01:01 GMT Open Letter to Sir Paul Nurse. Dr. Brian John, GM Free Cymru http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Open_Letter_to_Sir_Paul_Nurse.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Open_Letter_to_Sir_Paul_Nurse.php Mon, 31 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT World-famous independent scientist researching the risks of GMOs wins libel case against biotech association fronting a concerted campaign to discredit and victimise him. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/victoryForIndependentScience.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/victoryForIndependentScience.php Wed, 26 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT Fresh evidence links neonicotinoid pesticides to death of the honeybee spurs calls for banning the pesticides. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/banNeonicotinoidPesticidesToSaveHoneybee.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/banNeonicotinoidPesticidesToSaveHoneybee.php Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT Renewable energies not only cleaner, but also cheaper, especially in the long run. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/renewableEnergiesCostLess.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/renewableEnergiesCostLess.php Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT Thin Film CdTe under the Spotlight. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howGreenIsSolar.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howGreenIsSolar.php Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT A Closed loop zero-waste chemical processing of waste biomass from agriculture is the future of green chemistry, says Prof. James Clark of York University, UK. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/greenChemistryFromWastes.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/greenChemistryFromWastes.php Wed, 12 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT A new-found love of nature is shared by leaders of sustainable development and their ideas are beginning to find favour in the corridors of power. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/closedLoopCircularEconomy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/closedLoopCircularEconomy.php Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT The Cancun conference may go down in history as the decisive turning point at which the burden of saving the climate was passed on developing countries, and WTO procedures was introduced into UN meetings. Martin Khor http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cancunConferenceFailed.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cancunConferenceFailed.php Fri, 7 Jan 2011 12:01:01 GMT In sharp contrast to his predecessor, President Obama is promoting scientific integrity in government; others, including scientific organizations and universities, should follow suit, Professor Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scientificIntegrityInWashington.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scientificIntegrityInWashington.php Wed, 15 Dec 2010 12:01:01 GMT Risks of cancer and creation of new pathogens should not be underplayed by regulators. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Viruses_and_Virus_Nucleic_Acid_Contaminate_Vaccines.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Viruses_and_Virus_Nucleic_Acid_Contaminate_Vaccines.php Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:01:01 GMT A risky strategy experimented on humans without informed consent, and based on data from unpublished studies. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/canGMMosquitosEradicateDengue.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/canGMMosquitosEradicateDengue.php Wed, 8 Dec 2010 12:01:01 GMT Scientific evidence shows most if not all biofuels require more fossil fuel energy to produce and will never be a major green energy option. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biofuelsWasteEnergy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biofuelsWasteEnergy.php Mon, 6 Dec 2010 12:01:01 GMT No attempt to build a green economy can succeed unless it is fully integrated with sustainable primary agricultural production based on nature's own circular economy. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/sustainableAgricultureEssentialGreenCircularEconomy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/sustainableAgricultureEssentialGreenCircularEconomy.php Wed, 1 Dec 2010 12:01:01 GMT False carbon accounting for biofuels that ignores emissions in landuse change is a major driver of global natural habitat destruction, incurring carbon debts that take decades and centuries to repay; at the same time, the emissions of nitrous oxide from fertilizer use has been greatly underestimated. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/falseAccountingForBiofuels.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/falseAccountingForBiofuels.php Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT Renewables are providing affordable energy access for rural communities to get out of poverty while saving the climate. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/eradicatingRuralPovertyRenewableEnergies.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/eradicatingRuralPovertyRenewableEnergies.php Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT A not-for-profit social enterprise that empowers and enriches rural communities in Bangladesh through providing renewable energies, setting an example for the world. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/grameenShaktiRenewableEnergies.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/grameenShaktiRenewableEnergies.php Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT Science in Society #48 Winter 2010 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS48lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS48lettersToTheEditor.php Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT Anaerobic digestion is the key to China's rural development, but much more training and technical support needed, and better yet, an integrated approach to food and renewable energy, involvement of the local community and promotion of local enterprise. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biogasForChina.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biogasForChina.php Wed, 17 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT The Only Radical Science Magazine on Earth. Contents: From the Editors / SiS Commentary / Water's Quantum Jazz / Ten years of the Human Genome / GMO-Free / Organic Medicin / Technology Watch / Letters to the Editor http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety48.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety48.php Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT It took more than a decade to expose this legal monstrosity; all patents on DNA sequences natural or synthetic should be banned on the ground that they usurp the 'laws of nature' embodied in the DNA coding mechanisms that have evolved through billions of years of evolution. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/deathOfGenePatents.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/deathOfGenePatents.php Thur, 10 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT Invited lecture for Radionics Association, Kensington Unitarians' Essex Church Hall, London, 30 October 2010. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Waters_Quantum_Jazz.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Waters_Quantum_Jazz.php Thur, 10 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT Damning report confirms critic’s charge that industrial biofuels are responsible for world’s food and hunger crisis. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biofuelsAndWorldHunger.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biofuelsAndWorldHunger.php Wed, 3 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT An artist articulates his art and science on elemental water. Michel Kappeli http://www.i-sis.org.uk/waterUnchartedSpaces.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/waterUnchartedSpaces.php Mon, 1 Nov 2010 12:01:01 GMT They call it “mad soy disease” in Brazil, where it has been spreading from the north, causing yield losses of up to 40 percent, most notably in the states of Mato Grosso, Tocantins and Goias. Like its namesake, mad cow disease, it is incurable. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/madSoyDieaseStrikesBrazil.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/madSoyDieaseStrikesBrazil.php Wed, 27 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT Renewable energies continued to climb in 2009, bucking the plummeting economic trend. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/worldRenewableEnergyCapacity.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/worldRenewableEnergyCapacity.php Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT How water keeps 'most everything in the cell dancing most of the time, and what's the cell really like. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theRainbowEnsemble.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theRainbowEnsemble.php Mon, 20 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT Macromolecules need lots of water to function effortlessly and acquire completely new talents when fully hydrated Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/dancingWithMacromolecules.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/dancingWithMacromolecules.php Mon, 18 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT FDA’s proposal to label GM salmon for production outside the US is unenforceable, and its failure to extend labelling in the market borders on public deception Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMSalmonMustBeLabelled.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMSalmonMustBeLabelled.php Thur, 14 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT A weekend of science, medicine and art to mark 12 years of ISIS and the paradigm shift from mechanism to organism. Lectures, musical performances, art exhibitions, visit to urban forest garden, organic reception and dinner http://www.i-sis.org.uk/celebratingISISevent.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/celebratingISISevent.php Wed, 13 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT Commercial release of ‘cloned’ food animals illegal as well as unethical and unsafe. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/clonedFoodAnimalsNotTrueClones.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/clonedFoodAnimalsNotTrueClones.php Mon, 11 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT Ten years of GM soy and glyphosate poisoning have escalated the rates of cancer and birth defects. Claire Robinson http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/argentinasRoundupHumanTragedy.php Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT Developmental biologists traced glyphosate birth defects to key morphogen and signalling genes. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateCausesBirthDefects.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateCausesBirthDefects.php Mon, 4 Oct 2010 12:01:01 GMT Water has a special dynamic relationship with ions dissolved in it that will determine their chemistry in the cell. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/dancingWithIons.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/dancingWithIons.php Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Cooperative hydrogen-bonding between molecules gives rise to energetically favourable three-dimensional network of supramolecular clusters in liquid water under ambient conditions, resulting in long-range dipole correlation and quantum coherence. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cooperativeCoherentWater.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cooperativeCoherentWater.php Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT In the absence of feeding studies the commercial release of GM salmon is too hazardous to consider Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/aquaAdvantageSalmon.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/aquaAdvantageSalmon.php Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Anonymous report confirms climate and weather manipulation experiments conducted by the US and its allies over the past decades. Julian Rose http://www.i-sis.org.uk/atmosphericGeoengineering.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/atmosphericGeoengineering.php Mon, 20 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Invited lecture at Biomaterials Symposium, YUCOMAT 2010, Plaza Hotel, Herceg Novi, Montenegro, 6-10 September 2010 Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/liquid_crystalline_water.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/liquid_crystalline_water.php Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Invited lecture at International Conference on Water, Hydrogen Bonding Materials and Nanomedicine, Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Serbia, Bans Palace, Benja Luka, 4 September 2010. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/watersQuantumJazzLivingState.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/watersQuantumJazzLivingState.php Wed, 15 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Invited Lecture for Biotechnology seminar, Swedish International Agriculture Network Initiative 1-3 September Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theCaseAgainstGMOsLecture.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theCaseAgainstGMOsLecture.php Mon, 13 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Multinational biotech companies have a strong presence in China with many GMOs approved for import and processing; and transgene contamination is inevitable. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/geneticallyModifiedChina.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/geneticallyModifiedChina.php Wed, 8 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT A Scientist Peers Into the Dark Labyrinths of Neo-Liberal Finance. You might think it's impossible to buy a business using its money rather than your own, but private equity companies are able to do just that. The deals can be highly lucrative for them but at the expense of the employees, the taxpayer and people saving for their pensions. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/vampireCapitalism.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/vampireCapitalism.php Mon, 6 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT For the first time, electromagnetic signals specific to HIV can easily be detected in patients undergoing antiretroviral therapy that has no virus detectable in the bloodstream; prospects for a science of homeopathy looking good. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/electromagneticSignalsFromHIV.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/electromagneticSignalsFromHIV.php Thur, 2 Sep 2010 12:01:01 GMT Nobel Laureate who discovered the HIV presents controversial but well-documented findings that electromagnetic signals can be detected from highly diluted solutions of DNA. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/homeopathicSignalsFromDNA.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/homeopathicSignalsFromDNA.php Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:01:01 GMT Science in Society #47 Autumn 2010 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS47lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS47lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:01:01 GMT The Only Radical Science Magazine on Earth. Contents: GM-Spin Meltdown in China / Quantum Jazz Biology / GMO Meltdown / SiS Commentary / Letters to the Editor / Freeing the World from GMOs / No Nuclear The Real Cost of Nuclear Power / Sustainable World / Health Watch / SiS Review http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety47.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety47.php Mon, 9 Aug 2010 12:01:01 GMT A Human genome diversity has been successfully used to chart the fascinating prehistory of human evolution but controversies continue over the commercial exploitation of human cells and genes and the lack of honesty and respect for participants on the part of scientists. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/humanGenomeDiversity.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/humanGenomeDiversity.php Thur, 29 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT Advances in DNA sequencing and computation technologies have heralded in 'big biology' and massive proliferation of data but no progress in understanding life, health or disease; the life science community is caught between the Scylla of reductionism and Charybdis of 'systems biology'. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/tenYearsOfTheHumanGenome.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/tenYearsOfTheHumanGenome.php Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT To appear in Myths of the DNA Paradigm: Essays on the Uses and Misuses of Genetic Explanation (Sheldon Krimsky and Jeremy Gruber eds), Council for Responsible Genetics, Washington, USA. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/nurturingNature.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/nurturingNature.php Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT Invited Workshop Presentation at National Justice and Peace Conference, 16-18 July 2010, Swanick, UK. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/TheCaseAgainstGMCrops.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/TheCaseAgainstGMCrops.php Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT UK and European regulators authorising release of GM potatoes show reckless disregard of safety Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_potatoes_not_proven_safe.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_potatoes_not_proven_safe.php Thur, 15 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT While researchers are wasting taxpayers’ money to create hazardous GM blight-resistant potatoes, non-GM highly blight-resistant varieties are already on the market, with low carbon impact and all-round appeal to consumers Dr Eva Novotny http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Blight-resistant_Potatoes.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Blight-resistant_Potatoes.php Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT Bt cotton in China is often cited as an example of a successful GM crop. In fact, its widespread use has merely replaced the cotton borer with a serious pest that not only attacks cotton but also many other crops. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/gmSpinMeltdownInChina.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/gmSpinMeltdownInChina.php Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT Scientists find organic fields have more even distribution of natural enemy species, thereby providing significantly better pest control than conventional fields and promoting plant growth. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OAFBAPC.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/OAFBAPC.php Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:01:01 GMT This page has been created for books and publications by ISIS Friends and Members. Please send us a brief description of not more than 120 words plus a thumbnail image of the book cover. Listing is by chronological order http://www.i-sis.org.uk/booksByISISMembers.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/booksByISISMembers.php Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT A project based on a fallacious assumption about biofuels. Patrick Noble http://www.i-sis.org.uk/zeroCarbonBritainOrDustBowlBritain.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/zeroCarbonBritainOrDustBowlBritain.php Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT Interview with Dr. Mae-Wan Ho about her pioneering work in understanding life by David Riley, MD, editor in chief of Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine (ATHM); Rollin McCraty, MD, of the Institute of HeartMath; and Suzanne Snyder, managing editor of ATHM http://www.i-sis.org.uk/quantumJazzBiology.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/quantumJazzBiology.php Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT Biotech corporations and mega-charities are promoting the GMO agenda as US foreign policy, and it must be stopped. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theGlobalFoodSecurityAct.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theGlobalFoodSecurityAct.php Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT Senior Russian scientists document deaths and illnesses from Chernobyl 100 times those reported by the International Atomic Energy Agency. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theTruthAboutChernobyl.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theTruthAboutChernobyl.php Thur, 17 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT biotic Resistance not the Only Risk. Dr. Mae Wan Ho corrects some misconceptions about the risks of horizontal gene transfer from GMOs and calls for an urgent review http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMDNA_Does_Jump_Species.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMDNA_Does_Jump_Species.php Mon, 14 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT A dangerous remedy that may bring malaria back worse than before Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/geneticAproachesToMalaria.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/geneticAproachesToMalaria.php Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT Malaria has declined significantly worldwide thanks to combination therapy based on artemisinin and the use of insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets; this has raised hopes for eradicating the disease by developing additional drugs and vaccines and the release of transgenic mosquitoes, but is it wise? Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/timeToEradicateMalaria.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/timeToEradicateMalaria.php Mon, 7 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT An estimated 3.4 million gallons are spewing out daily with no end in sight while toxic oil and dispersants are killing all ocean life. Dr. Ilya Sandra Perlingieri interviews Ohio scientist Mike Castle on what can be done instead http://www.i-sis.org.uk/gulfOilCatastrophe.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/gulfOilCatastrophe.php Wed, 2 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT UK regulator Food Standards Agency must be held to account for ignoring incontrovertible evidence of harm and persisting in promoting GM food to the nation at taxpayers’ expense Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Dialogue_Naked_PR.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Dialogue_Naked_PR.php Tue, 1 Jun 2010 12:01:01 GMT GM Soya, Deforestation, Landgrab, Glyphosate Poisoning… Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/roundTableOnResponsibleSoy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/roundTableOnResponsibleSoy.php Mon, 31 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT New research reveals disastrous ecological impacts of the world’s top herbicide and GM crops made tolerant to it Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Brett Cherry http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateTolerantCrops.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateTolerantCrops.php Mon, 26 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the hype that scientists have created life but is cautiously optimistic provided no patents are granted on life, synthetic or otherwise http://www.i-sis.org.uk/syntheticLife.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/syntheticLife.php Mon, 24 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT Scientists go public on devastating ecological impacts of Roundup Ready cropping systems while USDA keeps mum Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosatePoisonsCrops.php Wed, 19 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT Defend Independent Science / Greening China / Real Climate / Letters to the Editor / Freeing the World from GM / Technology Watch / Food Watch / Rethinking Medicine http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety46.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety46.php Tue, 18 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT Debunking UK government estimates on the low cost of nuclear power. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_Real_Cost_of_Nuclear_Power.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/The_Real_Cost_of_Nuclear_Power.php Wed, 12 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT EU watchdog attempts to undermine already lax regulations to speed up commercial approval of risky GM products. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMO_Risk_Assessment.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMO_Risk_Assessment.php Mon, 10 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT It has been 16 years since the first genetically modified (GM) crop - Flavr Savr tomato for delayed ripening - was approved for commercial growing in the USA. It was also the year that I became a ‘science activist', on realising how science itself was falling prey to corporate manipulation. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Food_Angel_or_Devil.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GM_Food_Angel_or_Devil.php Wed, 05 May 2010 12:01:01 GMT Biofuels policies and the 2008 financial and food crisis ignited a worldwide 'land rush' that's increasing world hunger without addressing the underlying long term threats to world food security. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/landRush.php Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT Gilles-Eric Séralini, professor of molecular biology at the University of Caen in France, and president of the scientific council for independent research on genetic engineering (CRIIGEN), is among the world’s leading researchers into the risks of GMOs. His critique of the dossier submitted by Monsanto’s subsidiary in India for commercial growing of ‘Bt Brinjal’ (GM egg plant) played an important part in persuading the Indian Environment Minister to impose a moratorium. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/defendiSeralini.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/defendiSeralini.php Mon, 26 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT How the financial markets create hunger and make huge profits. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/financingWorldHunger.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/financingWorldHunger.php Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT but fight against GM neo-colonialism continues. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_Brinjal_Halted.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_Brinjal_Halted.php Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT Syngenta comes to the rescue to keep the transgenic treadmill going. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AfterMonsantoGMcropsmeltdown.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AfterMonsantoGMcropsmeltdown.php Wed, 14 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT No case for releasing a poorly characterized GM crop with a medley of transgenes for which detrimental effects have been indicated in the limited cases where feeding trials have been carried out Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SmartstaxMaizeAMedelyOFTransgenes.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SmartstaxMaizeAMedelyOFTransgenes.php Mon, 12 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT Will farmers get justice at last from years of victimisation from big agribusiness peddling genetically engineered crops? Dr. Eva Novotny http://www.i-sis.org.uk/US_farmers_oppose_big_ag.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/US_farmers_oppose_big_ag.php Wed, 7 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT Developing nations can leapfrog to low carbon economies by improving energy efficiency, adopting organic agriculture, and installing affordable off-grid renewable power for the people, says United Nations agency. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/greenGrowthForDevelopingNations.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/greenGrowthForDevelopingNations.php Tue, 6 Apr 2010 12:01:01 GMT Sustainable organic agriculture could cut China's greenhouse emissions and save fossil fuel use by more than 40 percent; decentralised, distributed green energies would do the rest for the circular economy. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/greeningChinaSustainableAgriculture.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/greeningChinaSustainableAgriculture.php Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT Cropland soils are turning acid from the overuse of nitrogen fertilizers, decreasing productivity, polluting the environment, and contributing huge amounts of greenhouse gas emissions; researchers recommend reducing fertilizer use, but have not considered phasing it out altogether by adopting organic agriculture http://www.i-sis.org.uk/chinasSoilRuined.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/chinasSoilRuined.php Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT China poised to launch next green five-year plan as national census finds wastewater runoff from farms a far greater source of pollution than industry; a holistic approach to greening food and energy is needed. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/chinasPollution.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/chinasPollution.php Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT The European Commission has just approved growing genetically modified crops for the first time in 12 years, putting the GM lobby's profits over public concerns - 60% of Europeans feel we need more information before growing foods that could threaten our health and environment. Sign the petition and spread the word http://www.i-sis.org.uk/banningGMOsInEuropePetition.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/banningGMOsInEuropePetition.php Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT China streaking ahead in renewable energy technologies amid explosive economic growth and steeply rising greenhouse gas emissions Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theGreenShootsOfChina.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theGreenShootsOfChina.php Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT The failure of conventional medicine based on the obsolete mechanistic model has prompted the search for better sciences for life, and the revival of an ancient paradigm of holistic theory of health and organic medicine. Dr. Omboon Vallisuta http://www.i-sis.org.uk/YesToOrganicMedicine.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/YesToOrganicMedicine.php Mon, 17 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT Rain forests power atmospheric circulation that bring rain to continental land masses from the oceans; new theory explains why losing forests will cause catastrophic desertification. Peter Bunyard http://www.i-sis.org.uk/importanceOfTheAmazonRainForest.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/importanceOfTheAmazonRainForest.php Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT A vast and rapidly expanding array of engineered nano-products floods the consumer market unregulated as evidence of toxicities accumulate http://www.i-sis.org.uk/nanotoxicityInRegulatoryVacuum.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/nanotoxicityInRegulatoryVacuum.php Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT US regulatory agencies are aiding and abetting in killing bees and more Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SmartStaxCornCorporateWarOnBees.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SmartStaxCornCorporateWarOnBees.php Mon, 8 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT Glyphosate resistant weeds may spell the end of patented herbicide tolerant crops, but can farmers exit the transgenic treadmill that's very profitable for Monsanto? http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateResistanceTransgenicTreadmil.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/glyphosateResistanceTransgenicTreadmil.php Wed, 3 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT Science in Society #45 Spring 2010 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS45lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS45lettersToTheEditor.php Mon, 1 Mar 2010 12:01:01 GMT A film that exposes how the corporate food industry sickens and enslaves the nation, but leaves many stones unturned. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/foodIncHorrorMovie.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/foodIncHorrorMovie.php Wed, 24 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT A colourful and radical People's Summit stole the show at Copenhagen for the real solutions to climate change Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/canThePeopleSaveTheClimate.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/canThePeopleSaveTheClimate.php Mon, 22 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT Green Power to the People / Real Climate / Letters to the Editor / ISIS Commentary / Vaccines Watch / Lessons from Bt Cotton / Freeing the World from GMOs / ISIS Review http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety45.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety45.php Wed, 17 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT The Copenhagen Accord is a big step backwards on the road map agreed in Bali, and is leading to a collapse in emissions targets that will result in a catastrophic rise in global temperature of more than 3 ˚C. Martin Khor http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Climate_Road_Map_Loses_Direction.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Climate_Road_Map_Loses_Direction.php Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT In 2006-08, Maharastra saw 12 493 farm suicides, 85 percent higher than the 6 745 suicides it recorded during 1997-1999, and the worst three year period for any State at any time despite huge government debt relief packages. P. Sainath http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Farm_Suicides_in_india.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Farm_Suicides_in_india.php Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT USDA/APHIS aims to support widely dispersed field trials with reckless disregard for safety and in flagrant violation of the precautionary principle Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FTGEEEASI.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FTGEEEASI.php Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT Is it possible that Prof. Beddingtons staff - at the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs perhaps - are much keener on GM than he is, and wrote a speech for him that was leaked ahead of time to The Guardian? Could it be that Prof. Beddington, after seeing the prepared speech, changed it out of all recognition? Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UKCSMOGM.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UKCSMOGM.php Fri, 05 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT If smoking causes lung cancer, we should try to stop people smoking, if greenhouse gas emissions are causing climate change, we should reduce them, if genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are hazardous, we should ban them. The problem for policy makers is that it is hard to be sure, or rather it is hard to be sure enough to convince a government to spend money or offend a powerful lobby. The Bradford Hill criteria can help in the difficult task of making decisions when the evidence, while strong, is not conclusive. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/TheBradfordHillCriteria.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/TheBradfordHillCriteria.php Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT Major crops genetically modified for just two traits - herbicide tolerance and insect resistance – are ravaged by super weeds and secondary pests in the heartland of GMOs as farmers fight a losing battle with more of the same; a fundamental shift to organic farming practices may be the only salvation. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCropsFacingMeltdown.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCropsFacingMeltdown.php Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:01:01 GMT Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe agree to launch enquiry amid revelations of gross conflicts of interest among experts advising the WHO to declare the swine flu pandemic Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluaFakedPandemic.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluaFakedPandemic.php Wed, 27 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT John Cook rebuts the most common sceptic arguments against global warming http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GSAGWS.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GSAGWS.php Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT Scepticism is good, but the inability to see the whole is what leads climate sceptics astray Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scepticAboutClimateChangeSceptics.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scepticAboutClimateChangeSceptics.php Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT GM Crops Increase Herbicide Use in the United States http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMcropsIncreasedHerbicide.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMcropsIncreasedHerbicide.php Mon, 18 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT ISIS Letter to Hilary Benn, UK Secretary of State for the Environment http://www.i-sis.org.uk/lessonsFromBtCotton.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/lessonsFromBtCotton.php Wed, 13 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT The new menace that came with Bt cotton. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mealybugPlaguesBtCotton.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/mealybugPlaguesBtCotton.php Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT The largest wave of farmer suicides and ecological nightmare unfolding around Bt cotton. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho exposes the 'fudged' data and false claims of 'successes' that have perpetrated the humanitarian disaster http://www.i-sis.org.uk/farmersSuicidesBtCottonIndia.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/farmersSuicidesBtCottonIndia.php Wed, 6 Jan 2010 12:01:01 GMT A ground-breaking launch conference for Green Energies - 100% Renewable by 2050 and turning point for renewable and sustainable energies Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenPowerRules.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenPowerRules.php Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:01:01 GMT Dr Siegfried Brenke, Team Leader, Strengthening Local Self-government, German Agency for Technical Co-operation (GTZ), Serbia, tells us how cities can play key roles in climate mitigation and how green financing regenerates investments out of energy savings; he will be speaking at the Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors during COP15 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howCitiesCanLeadinMitigatingClimate.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howCitiesCanLeadinMitigatingClimate.php Mon, 14 Dec 2009 12:01:01 GMT Rt. Hon Michael Meacher MP, former environment minister tells how UK is struggling to shift towards renewable energies, and what the Government must do to get there, easily http://www.i-sis.org.uk/thePoliticsOfGreenEnergy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/thePoliticsOfGreenEnergy.php Wed, 9 Dec 2009 12:01:01 GMT Alan Simpson MP provides a brilliant conceptual and practical roadmap for shifting hearts, minds, and actions towards an energy revolution that will set the world on fire http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Faith_Hope_Climate_Chaos.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Faith_Hope_Climate_Chaos.php Mon, 7 Dec 2009 12:01:01 GMT Science in Society #44 Winter 2009 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS44lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS44lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 2 Dec 2009 12:01:01 GMT Being 100 percent renewable and green is good, regardless of whether you believe in climate change. It solves our energy problem, puts people back in control, and gives us a cleaner, safer, healthier environment. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/PTTP100PCR.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/PTTP100PCR.php Mon, 30 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Science of the Organism and Sustainable Systems. Invited lecture, The Alternative View, 13-15 November, Grand Thistle Hotel, Bristol, UK. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WhyGMOsAreBad.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WhyGMOsAreBad.php Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Guest Editorial from Alan Simpson MP / Climate Showdown / Letters to the Editor / Pandemic Alert / Food Fight / Renewable and Green http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety44.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety44.php Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Open Letter to Premier of Western Australia http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scientistsConcernedAcademicFreedom.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/scientistsConcernedAcademicFreedom.php Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Invited lecture at the Conference Evolution and the Future, Belgrade 14-17 October 2009 (to appear in Proceedings). Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WCDTUAE.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WCDTUAE.php Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT A film that tries to get to the bottom of the mystery of the disappearing bees with some success. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WhyBeesVanish.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WhyBeesVanish.php Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT A much touted second generation 'nutritionally enhanced' GM crop bites the dust, as company fails to address serious health concerns; but don’t suppose that regulation will triumph. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HighLysineGMMaize.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HighLysineGMMaize.php Wed, 11 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Overstimulation of the immune system may trigger acute heart disease and sudden deaths in the increasing number of people with atherosclerosis; this hidden risk of mass vaccination programmes against swine flu could far outweigh the benefits. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CRSFV.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CRSFV.php Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Launch Conferernce 25 November 2009, Alan Simpson MP, Michael Meacher MP, Lord David Steel, James Archer, Dr. Armin Tenner (The Netherlands), Dr Siegfried Brenke (Germany), Prof. Joe Cummins (Canada) and others. Jubilee Room, UK Parliament, Westminster, London, 1:00-5:00pm http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenEnergiesAnnouncement.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenEnergiesAnnouncement.php Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT US Army researchers accused of giving positive spin to a vaccine trial that was predicted to fail because the strategy is wrong. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/firstPositiveAIDSVaccine.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/firstPositiveAIDSVaccine.php Thur, 05 Nov 2009 12:01:01 GMT Climate change, the most important story of all time is dramatized in a film that just won't go away. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ageOfStupid.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ageOfStupid.php Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Epigenetics and Generative Dynamics. Invited lecture for Evolution and the Future conference, Hotel Continental-Beograd, Belgrade, Serbia, 14-18 October 2009. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howDevelopmentDirectsEvolution.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/howDevelopmentDirectsEvolution.php Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Dr. Shiv Chopra, Health Canada whistle blower and author of Corrupt to the Core http://www.i-sis.org.uk/vaccinesPreventionOrCurse.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/vaccinesPreventionOrCurse.php Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Ambitious plans to light up Africa, but local off grid power sources must not be neglected. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/lakeTurkanaWindProject.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/lakeTurkanaWindProject.php Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Sets an example for all industrial nations. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/germanyRenewable2050.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/germanyRenewable2050.php Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Belated, good in parts, but not green and definitely lacking in vision. Prof. Peter Saunders and Brett Cherry http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UK_lackluster_lowcarbon_transition.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/UK_lackluster_lowcarbon_transition.php Mon, 12 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Flu vaccines are increasingly manufactured in cell lines that are actually or potentially oncogenic, and FDA guidelines allow high levels of contamination and no spot checks are carried out Dr. Sherri J Tenpenny http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fluVaccinesCancerRisks.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fluVaccinesCancerRisks.php Wed, 7 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Wind power could electrify the world or provide its energy needs many times over, not necessarily with big turbines and wind farms Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/windPowerElectricity.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/windPowerElectricity.php Mon, 5 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT Announcing an ISIS/TWN Special Report "A must-read for saving the climate" http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenEnergies.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenEnergies.php Thur, 1 Oct 2009 12:01:01 GMT An extraordinary recycling project turns rubbish into energy and potentially transforms slums into resource rich communities Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theCommunityCooker.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theCommunityCooker.php Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT Eighty percent of black carbon emissions come from fossil fuels and biomass burning associated with deforestation; reducing black carbon emissions may be the quickest, cheapest way to save the climate Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/blackCarbonWarmsThePlanets.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/blackCarbonWarmsThePlanets.php Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT Transgenic flax grown for several years in Canada has nevertheless contaminated probably the country's entire flax seed stock; that's why flax should never be used to produce transgenic industrial and pharmaceutical chemicals Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theDayOfTheTriffids.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theDayOfTheTriffids.php Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT New vaccine formulation contains thimerosal and beta-propiolactone a potent cancer causing chemical Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CSLPandemicSwineFluVaccine.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CSLPandemicSwineFluVaccine.php Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT The swine flu virus had three parents from two continents and appeared suddenly without warning, evading all routine flu surveillance and quarantine; sequence data suggest it may have been created from a faulty vaccine given to pigs in North America Prof. Adrian Gibbs and Dr. Jean Downie http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluVirusFromPigVaccine.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluVirusFromPigVaccine.php Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT The 2009 pandemic strain is milder than the seasonal flu; the most authoritative evidence on flu vaccines is that they are ineffective, and could have a range of adverse side-effects arising from production contaminants and adjuvants; the live attenuated vaccine intended as a nasal spray for children is genetically unstable and risk generating a more dangerous pandemic virus if mass vaccinations are to proceed Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluVaccination.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/swineFluVaccination.php Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT Reducing present atmospheric CO2 to 350 ppm is needed to avert irreversible climate catastrophe, top climate scientists say Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/350ppm_CO2_the_Target.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/350ppm_CO2_the_Target.php Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT Turning bioenergy crops into buried charcoal to sequester carbon does not work, and could plunge the earth into an oxygen crisis towards mass extinction Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/bewareTheBiocharInitiative.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/bewareTheBiocharInitiative.php Mon, 7 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT Science in Society #43 Autumn 2009 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS43lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS43lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 2 Sep 2009 12:01:01 GMT Modern moral philosophers have tended to study ethics in a void, ignoring the insights of the natural and human sciences. Some eminent scholars have sought to put this right; but based their ethical principles on a grossly distorted view of nature and human society, resulting in a 'technospheric' ethic that seeks to equate progress and the moral good with economic expansion and the dominance of man over nature. A new 'biospheric' ethic is required to mediate sustainable human behaviour in relationship to society, the ecosystem, the biosphere and the cosmos itself Edward Goldsmith (In fond memory) http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Towards_a_Biospheric_Ethic.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Towards_a_Biospheric_Ethic.php Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT Edward Goldsmith, founder and editor of The Ecologist (since 1970), lead author of A Blueprint for Survival (1972), founder of the Green Party, died peacefully in his sleep on 21 August 2009 at age 80. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EdwardGoldsmith.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EdwardGoldsmith.php Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT The results in its recent study appears to prove organic food is likely to be better than conventional food by a probability of 99.95 percent Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FSAorganicFoodBetter.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/FSAorganicFoodBetter.php Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT Health Watch / Water and Fire / Technology Watch / ISIS Commentary / GM-Free / Food and Democracy / Letters to the Editor / Toxic Watch / New Perspectives /Solar Harvests http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety43.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety43.php Mon, 24 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT Implications for Climate Change Policies. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/O2DroppingFasterThanCO2Rising.php Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT The live attenuated swine flu vaccine intended for millions of children has dangerous side effects and is genetically unstable, risking generation of new pandemic strains should mass vaccinations go ahead. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LASIVCSQ.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LASIVCSQ.php Mon, 17 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT A petition has been posted against the introduction of GM-carnations Moonaqua with altered colours.in the Netherlands.. These carnations are not yet available in Europe because they are not authorized. But the Dutch Ministry of Environment will do that in less than 6 weeks.time. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/No_to_GM_Carnations.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/No_to_GM_Carnations.php Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT Global warming is depleting oxygen from the ocean waters and threatening the survival of fisheries and the entire marine ecosystem. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Warming_Oceans_Starved_of_Oxygen.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Warming_Oceans_Starved_of_Oxygen.php Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT A boy who had to leave school at 14 shows the world how to harness wind energy by using dumped objects. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/harnessing_the_wind.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/harnessing_the_wind.php Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT Scientists are responsible for acquiring new data and evaluating existing data without bias, and should be protected by law for doing so; but if they fail, they too should be liable to prosecution. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SMHRPL.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SMHRPL.php Mon, 03 Aug 2009 12:01:01 GMT Modern society is technologically far superior to any that has gone before, we have all the means to head off the worst effects of climate change and adapt to those we cannot avoid. History tells us however that the most common reason societies collapse is not inadequate science or technology but failure to take the difficult decisions necessary for survival. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whyCivilisationsCollapse.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whyCivilisationsCollapse.php Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT The vaccines far more deadly than the swine flu; mass vaccinations a recipe for disaster Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fastTrackSwineFluVaccineUnderFire.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fastTrackSwineFluVaccineUnderFire.php Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT The highest efficiency solar cells use innovations in optics to concentrate sunlight Brett Cherry http://www.i-sis.org.uk/veryHighEfficiencySolarCells.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/veryHighEfficiencySolarCells.php Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT Trapping solar energy in quantum wells increases gain and efficiency of solar cells Brett Cherry http://www.i-sis.org.uk/quantumWellSolarCells.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/quantumWellSolarCells.php Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT On behalf of the Institute of Science in Society, I would like to submit our Comment to you on the Philippine Sugar Research Institute Foundation’s objection to the implementation of Provincial Ordinance 007 in Negros Occidental Province. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Support_of_Ban_on_GMOs_in_Negros.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Support_of_Ban_on_GMOs_in_Negros.php Thur, 16 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT Scientists Confirm Potent Hormone Disrupting Effects. Latest evidence confirms world's top-selling herbicide used with GM crops is toxic and disrupts sex hormones at infinitesimal doses; time for a worldwide ban. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Ban_Glyphosate_Herbicides_Now.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Ban_Glyphosate_Herbicides_Now.php Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT Argentina considers ban. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GHCCBD.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GHCCBD.php Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT Conventional medicine is dying ultimately because it is based on an obsolete dominant mechanistic model that does not recognize the coherence of the organism.Dr. Mae-Wan Ho explores how a science of the organism could underpin a new organic medicine that would best serve the nation. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Medicine_in_a_New_Key.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Medicine_in_a_New_Key.php Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT Harvesting solar energy with a specially designed metal complex that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen with novel chemistry and regenerates itself. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/splittingWater.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/splittingWater.php Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT An efficient and robust catalyst for oxidizing water brings us closer to converting sunlight into fuel Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/makingFuelFromWater.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/makingFuelFromWater.php Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:01:01 GMT Solar power is by far the most abundant renewable zero-carbon energy resource, and artificial photosynthesis could be the most effective way to store the energy and make it more available and affordable Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ArtificialPhotosynthesis.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/ArtificialPhotosynthesis.php Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT A new study on Canadian farmer perceptions toward genetically modified (GM) wheat - specifically Roundup Ready wheat (RRW)- has just been published in the international peer reviewed journal Environmental Science and Pollution Research. This scientific paper is being released just as the controversy over growing GM wheat is re-igniting. Unlike a recent industry-sponsored study conducted in the US, it shows that Canadian farmers are categorically opposed to RRW http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMWheatMauro2009.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMWheatMauro2009.php Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT Water charges up with electricity when exposed to sunlight, offering the potential for an inexhaustible supply of squeaking clean energy and challenging conventional understanding of bioenergetics Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WaterElectric.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/WaterElectric.php Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT Scientists and physicians in the heartland of genetic modification are alerting policy-makers and the public to the dangers of GM crops. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/US_Opposition_to_GMOs.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/US_Opposition_to_GMOs.php Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT Burning water is a way of life for all organisms, in animals as in plants, with a little help from sunlight perhaps Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theBodyDoesBurnWater.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/theBodyDoesBurnWater.php Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT The controversial promoter in all GM crops does enhance multiplication of disease-causing viruses; yet another reason why [1] GM is Dangerous and Futile (SiS 40). Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CaMV35Spromoter_and_HIV.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CaMV35Spromoter_and_HIV.php Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT The case of salt water that can be ignited when exposed to a radio frequency beam and what it could tell us about the structure of water Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/canWaterBurn.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/canWaterBurn.php Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT Scientists across the disciplines are discovering how oxygen created from water is pivotal for the evolution of life on earth and how it affects every aspect of health, disease and development Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/livingWithOxygen.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/livingWithOxygen.php Mon, 08 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT More renewable energies capacity added than conventional for the first time in 2008 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/globalShiftRenewableEnergiesHappening.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/globalShiftRenewableEnergiesHappening.php Wed, 03 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT After paying out almost $5 billion in the US, Merck is defending a class action in Australia where a journal that never was came to light, meanwhile UK victims see no prospect of compensation Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/VioxxAMerckyStory.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/VioxxAMerckyStory.php Mon, 01 Jun 2009 12:01:01 GMT Science in Society #42 Summer 2009 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS42lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS42lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 27 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT The unstoppable groundswell of opposition to GMOs in Europe. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EuropesUprisingAgainstGMOs.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EuropesUprisingAgainstGMOs.php Mon, 25 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT Freeing the World from GM / Letters to the Editor / Sustainable World / Technology Watch / Epigenetics and Beyond / Health Watch http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety42.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety42.php Mon, 20 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT Invited address to UK Parliamentary and Scientific Committee, 19th May 2009, Westminster, London. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Science_in_a_New_Key.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Science_in_a_New_Key.php Mon, 18 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT Transgenic viral resistance is short-lived while marker assisted selective breeding can offer long-term protection. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MSVRTMA.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MSVRTMA.php Thur, 14 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT The events of the past year have led to many hard questions being asked about our financial system and 'free market economy'. Commentators are finally starting to challenge the assumption on which so much has depended, that the market is always right - the invisible hand will guide the economy to make the most effective use of resources and if there is ever a deviation from this optimal state, the market will correct itself. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MTBNTC.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/MTBNTC.php Tue, 12 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT Important revelations at the Conference on how Europe determines the future of GMOs in the world market, and more. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EHKGMFW.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/EHKGMFW.php Wed, 06 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT Two hundred and fifty delegates from 28 countries gathered in Lucerne , Switzerland, for the 5th European Conference of GMO-Free Regions, Food and Democracy , 24-25 April 2009. They called for a moratorium on GMOs in Europe. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Moratorium_on_GMOs_for_Europe.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Moratorium_on_GMOs_for_Europe.php Mon, 04 May 2009 12:01:01 GMT Lecture at Workshop on Hazards of GMOs, Food and Democracy, 5th European Conference on GMO-Free Regions, 25 April 2009, Cultural and Conference Centre Lucerne (KKL), Switzerland. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/goldenRiceHazardsGMOs.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/goldenRiceHazardsGMOs.php Wed, 29 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT Concentrations of pesticides insufficient to cause harm individually become highly toxic in combinations that occur in our environment. Current testing regimes are failing to cope with such lethal cocktails Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/supertoxicCocktails.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/supertoxicCocktails.php Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT In 2008, ISIS proposed a transparent labelling scheme that directly informs consumers as alternative to organic certification. This has now become a Written Declaration in European Parliament http://www.i-sis.org.uk/transparentFoodLabellingforEurope.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/transparentFoodLabellingforEurope.php Thur, 23 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT Thermoelectric devices that scavenge waste heat to generate electricity improve efficiency of fuel consumption and replace bad greenhouse gas refrigerant Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/harvestingWasteHeat.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/harvestingWasteHeat.php Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT DNA and RNA circulating in the bloodstream are offering golden opportunities for disease diagnosis and may play an important role in intercommunication between cells Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/circulatingNucleicAcids.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/circulatingNucleicAcids.php Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT Dr. Mae-Wan Ho uncovers a fascinating page in the history of genetics expurgated from the mainstream account that also tells us why genetic modification is so dangerous. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DarwinsPangenesis.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DarwinsPangenesis.php Wed, 15 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT ISIS has already accumulated a large dossier of evidence and your help in assembling witness evidence may be just what's needed to make the case for a global ban on environmental releases of GMOs. Please submit to us photographic and video evidence of hazards and failures. http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CallforDirectWitnessEvidenceGMHazards.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/CallforDirectWitnessEvidenceGMHazards.php Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT Corporations are aiming for an absolute stranglehold on scientific research and the flow of scientific information; that's why patents on GM crops should be abolished. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/corporateMonopolyOfScience.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/corporateMonopolyOfScience.php Wed, 8 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT Percy Schmeiser is a real life hero who played David to Monsanto's Goliath, and like David, he won. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/whoOwnsLifeNotMonsanto.php Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT The first community project in the metropolis to recycle food wastes into energy and fertilizer by anaerobic digestion Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/anUrbanDreamFarmForLondon.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/anUrbanDreamFarmForLondon.php Wed, 1 Apr 2009 12:01:01 GMT How to get renewable energy from the tides in the Severn without damaging the environment Peter Bunyard http://www.i-sis.org.uk/reefReplaceBarrage.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/reefReplaceBarrage.php Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT An institution thriving in the midst of the credit crunch could show us how to exit the food, fuel, and financial crisis Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cooperativeAgainstTheCreditCrunch.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/cooperativeAgainstTheCreditCrunch.php Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT New findings on the molecular mechanisms whereby epigenetic changes acquired during development can be transmitted to the next generation via sperm cells are vindicating Lamarck's theory of evolution that had been completely eclipsed by Darwin's followers for over a century Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/epigeneticInheritanceSpermCells.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/epigeneticInheritanceSpermCells.php Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Phase II clinical trials on children have been conducted with unapproved experimental GM rice enhanced in pro-Vitamin A that has the potential to cause birth defects and developmental abnormalities. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/goldenRiceScandal.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/goldenRiceScandal.php Wed, 18 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Clinical trials of malaria vaccines on infants raise serious concerns over the safety of multiple vaccinations of the very young. Effective implementation of existing measures have eradicated malaria from many countries without using vaccines. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/malarialVaccineRisks.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/malarialVaccineRisks.php Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT FoE exposes false and misleading statistics presented by industry-funded group to promote GM crops. Brett Cherry http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCropsExaggerated.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GMCropsExaggerated.php Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Biologicals - recombinant proteins used as drugs, vaccines or antibodies - are found to cause adverse side effects including death much more frequently than conventional synthetic chemical drugs. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/magnifectionSafePharmingDoomsday.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/magnifectionSafePharmingDoomsday.php Thu, 5 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Spring 2009 http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS41lettersToTheEditor.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SIS41lettersToTheEditor.php Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Protein drugs produced by genetic engineering cause adverse events including death more frequently than synthetic chemical drugs; yet they are being produced in transgenic crops grown in open fields. Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biologicalsWonderDrugsWithProblems.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/biologicalsWonderDrugsWithProblems.php Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Dr. Mae-Wan Ho calls for a shift away from the obsolete mechanistic science that has helped create the current food, fuel, and financial crisis in the midst of climate change. The new science of the organism re-establishes our connection with nature and with indigenous knowledge systems worldwide. Europe's agricultural policies must rise to the challenge, to support and promote organic, localised agriculture and food and energy systems that offers the most effective way out of the current crisis, to deliver health, wealth and happiness to the world's nations. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SOSS.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SOSS.php Mon, 2 Mar 2009 12:01:01 GMT Shortage of fresh water poses a much bigger threat to world food supply than the shortage of fossil fuels; cultivating salt-tolerant crops could solve both problems. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Joe Cummins http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SalineAgriculture.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SalineAgriculture.php Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Monsanto's Genetically Engineered Bt-cotton is not just killing farmers, it is also killing the soil. Navdanya http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BtCottonKillsSoilandFarmers.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/BtCottonKillsSoilandFarmers.php Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Epigenetics and Beyond / Letters to the Editor / The Green Nuclear Revolution / Freeing the World from GM. ISIS http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety41.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/AnnouncingScienceinSociety41.php Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Tufts university involvement in golden rice feeding trials. Dr Brian John http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SPUCTGM.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SPUCTGM.php Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Scientists pinpoint how very low concentrations of the herbicide and other chemicals in Roundup formulations kill human cells, strengthening the case for phasing them out, and banning all further releases of Roundup-tolerant GM crops. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Brett Cherry http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DMPGR.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/DMPGR.php Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Expert independent scientist verdict contradicts Indian regulatory authorities on biosafety of GM aubergine. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_Brinjal_Unfit.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Bt_Brinjal_Unfit.php Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Hilary Benn and Other GM Supporters. The Cabinet minister betrays his true colours in a head to head with Vandana Shiva and other proponents of organic agriculture as evidence piles up against the safety of GM food and feed. Sam Burcher http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Who_is_Anti-Science.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Who_is_Anti-Science.php Fri, 6 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT We have all the means to save the climate without risking the earth in unregulated geoengineering research. Prof. Peter Saunders and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GeoEngineeringAMD.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GeoEngineeringAMD.php Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT Geoengineering experiments can lead to big disasters if things go wrong, which is why it must be strictly regulated. The German Governments decision to proceed with its ocean fertilisation experiment violates the recommendations of the Convention on Biological Diversity, but there is no law against it. Prof. Peter Saunders http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SavingTheClimateDangerously.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SavingTheClimateDangerously.php Mon, 2 Feb 2009 12:01:01 GMT How adaptive epigenetic changes that can rewrite genes contribute to human brain development and evolution. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/rewritingGeneticText.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/rewritingGeneticText.php Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT Low energy nuclear reactions have the potential to provide distributed power generation with zero carbon emission and cheaper than coal Lewis Larsen http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LENRsReplacingCoal.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/LENRsReplacingCoal.php Tue, 27 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT How weak interaction LENRs can take us out of the nuclear safety and economic black hole Lewis Larsen http://www.i-sis.org.uk/safeNuclearDecommissioning.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/safeNuclearDecommissioning.php Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT Environmental toxins modify our genes and affect our children and grandchildren; enormous implications for risk assessment of synthetic chemical and other xenobiotics Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/epigeneticToxicology.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/epigeneticToxicology.php Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT Decades of sequencing and dissecting the human genome have confirmed that the real causes of ill health are environmental and social Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fromGenomicsToEpigenomics.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fromGenomicsToEpigenomics.php Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT New research on maternal care puts the environment and epigenetic potential at centre stage of how organisms shape their lives and the lives of their offspring Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/caringMothersGeneticDeterminism.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/caringMothersGeneticDeterminism.php Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT The experience of one generation can modify genes passed on to the next via a variety of mechanisms that blur the distinction between epigenetic and genetic. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/epigeneticInheritance.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/epigeneticInheritance.php Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT Widespread releases of hazardous transgenes and vaccines have the potential to create viruses more deadly than the ones the vaccines protect against. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HPV_Vaccine_Production_Plants.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HPV_Vaccine_Production_Plants.php Wed, 7 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT Major uncertainties over efficacy and safety for costly vaccines that only benefit the drug giants for sure. Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HPV_Vaccine_Controversy.php http://www.i-sis.org.uk/HPV_Vaccine_Controversy.php Mon, 5 Jan 2009 12:01:01 GMT