Science in Society #54 Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Science in Society magazine
ISIS, 16th May 2012 |
Announcing Science in Society #54 - Summer 2012
 Investment Banks & Financial Maths / Cancer Cure & Prevention / Science & Religion / No Transgenic Mosquitoes / Spider-silk Quest / Ban Glyphosate Herbicides / Epigenetics rules / Technology Watch
ISIS, 14th May 2012 |
Non-genetic Inheritance of Longevity
Increased longevity passed down generations of worms through epigenetic changes despite unaltered genomes
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 8th May 2012 |
Announcing Art/Science/Music Festival
Colours of Water
Date: 12-28 March 2013 Venue: Menier Gallery-London
Be prepared for a surprising feast of mind, body and spirit in ISIS' continuing quest to recover beauty and truth in science and art
ISIS, 2nd May 2012 |
Investment Banks & Financial Maths
Investment bankers are to blame for the credit crunch that has beggared nations, but what about financial mathematicians?
Prof. Peter Saunders and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 1st May 2012 |
Scientific and Citizen Forum on Radioprotection - From Chernobyl to Fukushima
There will be a meeting in Geneva to discuss the catastrophes at Chernobyl and Fukushima. The topics will include both the actual consequences of the explosions and how governments and international agencies have attempted to cover them up. Among the speakers will be Alexei Yablokov and Alexei Nesterenko, the two surviving authors of the detailed report on Chernobyl.
IndependentWHO, 25th April 2012 |
Action Against Closed Door UK Energy Summit
Climate Justice Collective and friends take to the streets to challenge the energy stitch-up going on behind closed doors at the UK Energy Summit
Climate Justice Collective, 23rd April 2012 |
Announcing 'Living Rainbow H2O'
A new book by Mae-Wan Ho. Published May 2012
ISIS, 18th April 2012 |
Lives of Meaning
Can biologists find spirituality without finding a creator?
Prof. R.I. Vane-Wright, 16th April 2012 |
Cancer a Redox Disease
Cancer cells are universally disturbed in their electronic energy balance, an understanding that potentially revolutionises cancer therapy and prevention
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 12th April 2012 |
Does DCA Cure Cancer?
A common chemical seems just short of the latest miracle cure for cancer, but its implications for our basic understanding of cancer may be far more important
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 10th April 2012 |
Cancer an Epigenetic Disease
Cancers are overwhelmingly caused by environmental factors and hence largely preventable; the focus on therapy based on genetic mutations is misplaced
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 4th April 2012 |
Tell Morrisons Not to Drop GM-free Poultry Policy
Morrisons has decided to drop its GM-free poultry feed policy. Take action and tell them to drop this new policy!
Rhian Price, 3rd April 2012 |
Personalized Medicine for Cancer Fact or Fiction?
Companies are marketing genetic profiling to provide personalized cancer therapy, but cancers show numerous mutations that differ not only between individual patients but also from one region to another in a single tumour
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 2nd April 2012 |
Glyphosate Toxic to Mouth Cells & Damages DNA, Roundup Much Worse
Further evidence of genotoxic and cytotoxic effects – a prelude to cancer, birth defects and reproductive problems
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 28th March 2012 |
One Million People Sign Emergency Petition to Ban Bee-Killing Nicotine Pesticide Illegally Registered in US
A remarkable emergency petition with over one million signatures has been submitted to the USEPA requesting the withdrawal of the pesticide clothianidin - a nicotine-based systemic pesticide widely used on corn/maize. Multiple activist organizations participated, lead by major US beekeepers
Kevin Hansen, 27th March 2012 |
Handmade Cloning More Efficient But Obsolete
The dangers of new animal cloning techniques are evading regulatory bureaucrats while safer more ethical options for tissue replacement are making them obsolete
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 26th March 2012 |
'Confined' field releases of Eucalyptus neither confined nor safe
Perfunctory environmental assessment based largely on uninformed prejudice and hiding crucial details on gene constructs under 'Confidential Business Information'
Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 21st March 2012 |
Genetic Engineering Spider Silk
Recombinant spider silk can be produced safely and effectively in contained facilities from genetically engineered bacteria and silk worms, provided containment is strictly implemented
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 19th March 2012 |
Tell WalMart to Reject Monsanto's GMO Corn
There is growing evidence of health hazards associated with genetically modified (GM) food and feed, which ISIS has reviewed extensively over the years. Health hazards linked to Bt toxins include organ damage in lab animals, diarrhoea, increased water consumption, decrease in liver weight, damage and death of human kidney cells in culture, allergies in humans, changes in blood chemistry, and mass deaths of sheep grazing on Bt crops residues - Now Monsanto is introducing GM Bt corn for direct human consumption.
ISIS, 15th March 2012 |
Bt Toxin Kills Human Kidney Cells
Cry1Ab biopesticide kills human cells at low doses as does Roundup herbicide
Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji, 14th March 2012 |
Non-transgenic Mosquitoes to Combat Dengue
New research shows how a common symbiotic bacterium can stop the dengue virus multiplying in the mosquito host, making hazardous and inefficient transgenic mosquitoes obsolete
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 12th March 2012 |
Transgenic Mosquitoes Not a Solution
All attempts at controlling the spread of diseases by transgenic mosquitoes are ineffective, inefficient, costly, and hazardous to varying degrees
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 7th March 2012 |
In Praise of Spiders and Spiders' Silk
Marvels of nature to be appreciated and not to be abused
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 5th March 2012 |
Environmental Obesogens Make Children and Adults Fat
Persistent environmental pollutants responsible for obesity epidemic
Prof. Joe Cummins, 29th February 2012 |
Glyphosate Kills Rat Testis Cells
Another link between Roundup and infertility
Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji, 27th February 2012 |
Regulation of Transgenic Insects Highly Inadequate and Unsafe
USDA set a dangerous precedent for a permissive regulatory regime over environmental releases of transgenic insects that is now adopted across the world
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 22nd February 2012 |
Unspinning the Web of Spider-Goat
Breeding transgenic goats for spider silk is unethical, and passing surplus goats onto the public food chain unsafe; the project has never been subject to regulatory risk assessment and there is not a single report characterizing the transgenic sequences in the spider-goats’ genome
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 20th February 2012 |
Science in Society #53 Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Science in Society magazine
ISIS, 15th February 2012 |
Announcing Science in Society #53 - Spring 2012
 French Nuclear Myths Exposed / Fluid Genome Dynamics / New Economy / Letters to the Editor / Genetic Determinism Unravels / Freeing the World from GMOs / Technology Watch
ISIS, 14th February 2012 |
New GM Crops Tolerant To Old Toxic Herbicides a Step Backwards
Dow Agroscience petitions for deregulating new GM maize tolerant to 2,4-D and Quizalofop
Prof. Joe Cummins, 9th February 2012 |
How to Increase the Brain Power and Health of a Nation
Abundant evidence points to the enormous potential for improving intellectual abilities (and health) through simple environmental and social interventions
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 1st February 2012 |
No Genes for Intelligence
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, 30th January 2012 |
Mystery of Missing Heritability Solved?
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, 25th January 2012 |
The True Costs of French Nuclear Power
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, 23rd January 2012 |
Pesticide Illnesses and GM Soybeans. Ban on Aerial Spraying Demanded in Argentina.
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, 18th January 2012 |
French Nuclear Power Not Safe
French nuclear power is far from safe, and the government covered up effects of the Chernobyl disaster on French people
Susie Greaves, 16th January 2012 |
Living, Green and Circular
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, 11th January 2012 |
USDA Scientist Reveals All - 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, 9th January 2012 |
New Economy Now
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, 4th January 2012 |
Plant Immune System Spawns New Biopesticides
Monsanto’s Harpin a potential health hazard but natural extract from giant knotweed is best for ‘man and beasties’
Prof. Joe Cummins, 19th December 2011 |
Bt Crops Failures and Hazards
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, 14th December 2011 |
“Shut Down Wall Street!”
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, 12th December 2011 |
Biogas Plant for Smallholder Farmers in Ethiopia Showcased by Award-Winning Team for Sustainable Development
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, 7th December 2011 |
Super-rice without GM, China's Dream Comes True
1 000 Kg per Mu in 10 Years
Prof. Li Kangmin, 5th December 2011 |
How Food Affects Genes
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, 30th November 2011 |
Monsanto Defeated by Roundup Resistant Weeds
An explosion of glyphosate resistant weeds forces Monsanto to run away from farmers’ rising weed control costs
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 28th November 2011 |
Mismatch of RNA to DNA Widespread
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, 23rd November 2011 |
Quantum Jazz Naples - Liquid Crystalline Water Music of the Organism
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, 21st November 2011 |
Science in Society #52 Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Science in Society magazine
ISIS, 16th November 2011 |
Announcing Science in Society #52 - Winter 2011
 Global Diabetes Epidemic Rages On / Diabetes Epidemic / Art/science Essay / Truth & Beauty / Physics of Organisms / Letters to the Editor / Freeing the World from GMOs / New Physics / Technology Watch
ISIS, 14th November 2011 |
Pharm Crops Ignoring Health and Environment
The promises of pharm crops undermined by threats to health and environment
Prof. Joe Cummins, 9th November 2011 |
Golden Mean Wins Chemistry Nobel Prize
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
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 7th November 2011 |
Protein's Secret Water Music in Nanospace
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, 2nd November 2011 |
Bt Resistant Rootworm Spreads
The emergence of more Bt-resistant pests is further proof of the futility of Bt crops
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 31st October 2011 |
Treating Diabetes with a Glucagon-like Peptide
Looks promising for some
Prof. Joe Cummins, 26th October 2011 |
Diabetes New Cures from Old Foods
We still do not understand diabetes, but where diet and exercise fail, some surprisingly common foods may help
Prof. Peter Saunders, 24th October 2011 |
New Diabetes Drug and Cancer Risk
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, 19th October 2011 |
Global Diabetes Epidemic Rages On
The upward trend shows no sign of abating, governments need to empower people to make the necessary ‘lifestyle’ changes
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 17th October 2011 |
Electronic Induction Animates the Cell
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, 12th October 2011 |
A Scientist's Earth Music
ISIS contribution to Earth Music Bristol, 18-26 November 2011, Bristol, UK
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 10th October 2011 |
Liquid Crystalline Morphogenetic Field
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, 5th October 2011 |
Genes Don't Generate Body Patterns
Time to end the obsession with genes and pay more attention to dynamic processes that generate patterns and forms
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 28th September 2011 |
Skyhook to Save the Climate?
Geoengineering, like banking, can affect the whole world, and again like banking, has no international regulation, which is urgently needed
Prof. Peter Saunders, 26th September 2011 |
Membrane Potential Rules
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, 21st September 2011 |
Glyphosate and Monarch Butterfly Decline
Glyphosate destruction of monarch butterfly breeding grounds suspected
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 19th September 2011 |
Thorium the Answer to Clean Energy?
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, 14th September 2011 |
The Z Theory of Everything
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, 12th September 2011 |
Mae-Wan Ho on Science and Democracy
Interview by Emma Hughes of Red Pepper magazine
ISIS, 7th September 2011 |
Glyphosate letter for Ventura county
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, 6th September 2011 |
GM Feed Toxic, New Meta-Analysis Confirms
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, 5th September 2011 |
Nina Fedoroff Misfires at EPA's Modest Proposal
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, 31st August 2011 |
USDA/APHIS Creeping towards Regulatory Shutdown
Genetically modified bluegrass deregulation marks the beginning of the end of a toothless regulatory regime for GMOs
Prof. Joe Cummins, 30th August 2011 |
Science in Society #51 Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Science in Society magazine
ISIS, 9th August 2011 |
Announcing Science in Society #51 - Autumn 2011
 How Off-Grid Renewables and Small Farms Can Save the World / Wireless Damages Brain / Science for Democracy / Deadly E. coli Outbreak / No Nuclear / Quantum Biology and Medicine / Letters to the Editor / Technology Watch / Food Crisis / Freeing the World from GMOs
ISIS, 8th August 2011 |
Fukushima Fallout
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, 3rd August 2011 |
Outbreak E. coli not Exclusive to Humans
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, 1st August 2011 |
Quantum Coherent Water, Non-thermal EMF Effects, and Homeopathy
How quantum coherent water may account for specific biological effects of very weak electromagnetic fields, and possibly homeopathy
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 27th July 2011 |
Quantum Coherent Water and Life
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, 25th July 2011 |
DNA Sequence Reconstituted from Water Memory?
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, 20th July 2011 |
Sustainable Agriculture and Off-Grid Renewable Energy
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, 18th July 2011 |
EU Regulators and Monsanto Exposed for Hiding Glyphosate Toxicity
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, 13th July 2011 |
Nijmegen Declared GM-Free through Citizen Action
A model local initiative for banning GMOs
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 11th July 2011 |
Mobile Phones Damage the Brain
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, 6th July 2011 |
Carbon Capture and Storage: Still Not An Option
Eliminating carbon from power plant emissions is cost-prohibitive and environmentally counterproductive
Jeffrey H. Michel, 4th July 2011 |
Escherichia coli O104:H4 A Newly Emergent Pathogen
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, 29th June 2011 |
How Genetic Engineering May Have Created E. Coli Outbreak
Greatly assisted horizontal gene transfer and recombination turned previously harmless bacteria into dangerous pathogens
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 27th June 2011 |
Wireless Phones and Brain Cancer
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, 22nd June 2011 |
African Alliances Challenge Introduction of GM Technology
Civil society and private sector organisations come together to fight introduction of GM technology
Dr. Eva Sirinathsinghji, 20th June 2011 |
European Environment Agency Highlight Mobile Phone Cancer Risks
Latest reviews conclude 10 years exposure increases brain tumour risks especially for the young
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 15th June 2011 |
The New Politics of Food Scarcity
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, 14th June 2011 |
Letter in Support of Citizens’ Initiative for GM-Free Nijmegen
ISIS letter to the Municipal Council of Dutch city Nijmegen.
Dr. Mae-Wan Ho, 13th June 2011 |
Wireless Phone Radiation "Possibly Carcinogenic"
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, 8th June 2011 |
Cold Fusion Ready for Commercial Production?
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, 6th June 2011 |
Quantum Jazz Art - Quantum Sculptures
 Video Clip of Julian Voss Andreae lecturing on "Quantum Sculptures". From the Celebrating ISIS - Quantum Jazz Biology event, March 2011.
ISIS, 1st June 2011 |
UK Supermarkets to label GM Soybean ‘Sustainable’
Irresponsible labelling of GM soybean by British supermarkets aims to deceive the public over the true hazards of GM crops
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 31st May 2011 |
Quantum Jazz Music - Birds as Composers
 Video Clip of 'sonic poet' Edward Cowie performing "Birds as Composers". From the Celebrating ISIS - Quantum Jazz Biology event, March 2011.
ISIS, 25th May 2011 |
The Promise of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Ordinary cells can be induced to become pluripotent stem cells, making it unnecessary to use human embryos, but is it safe?
Dr Eva Sirinathsinghji, 24th May 2011 |
Science in Society #50 Letters to the Editor
Correspondence from Science in Society magazine
ISIS, 18th May 2011 |
Announcing Science in Society #50 - Summer 2011
 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
ISIS, 17th May 2011 |
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