A 12-Year Saga of Farm Suicides in India 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, 9th February 2010 |
Field Testing Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus: Environment Assessment Still Inadequate 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, 8th February 2010 |
UK Chief Scientist Misrepresented Over GM Is it possible that Prof. Beddington’s 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, 5th February 2010 |
The Bradford Hill Criteria Applied to Climate Change & GMOs 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, 3rd February 2010 |
GM Crops Facing Meltdown in the USA 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, 1st February 2010 |
Swine Flu a “Faked Pandemic” 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, 27th January 2010 |
Getting Sceptical about Global Warming Scepticism John Cook rebuts the most common sceptic arguments against global warming John Cook, 25th January 2010 |
Sceptical about Climate Change Sceptics Scepticism is good, but the inability to see the whole is what leads climate sceptics astray Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders, 20th January 2010 |
GM Crops Increase Herbicide Use in the United States The use of toxic herbicides on the rise due to the spread of herbicide tolerant crops Brett Cherry, 18th January 2010 |
Lessons from Bt Cotton ISIS Letter to Hilary Benn, UK Secretary of State for the Environment ISIS, 13th January 2010 |
Mealy Bug Plagues Bt Cotton in India and Pakistan The new menace that came with Bt cotton Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 11th January 2010 |
Farmer Suicides and Bt Cotton Nightmare Unfolding in India 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
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 6th January 2010 |