Corporate Monopoly of Science 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 8th April 2009 |
How to Stop Bird Flu Instead Dr. Mae-Wan Ho explains why the vaccine-antiviral model doesn't work and why a new paradigm is needed to provide health for all Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 14th May 2007 |
FDA Under Fire for Corporate Links that Compromise Science Political interference in the process of science and rampant conflicts of interest in scientific advisory panels are undermining the agency’s ability to protect the public from dangerous drugs Sam Burcher 3rd September 2006 |
FDA in Third World Drug Trial Scandals Experimental tests are conducted in developing countries on sick and vulnerable children under the guise of free and ethical treatments sanctioned by the FDA and complicit medical institutions Sam Burcher and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 1st September 2006 |
Bio-electromagnetic Weapons A weapon system that operates at the speed of light, that can kill, torture, enslave and escape detection Harlan Girard 24th January 2006 |
NIH-Sponsored AIDS Drugs Tests on Mothers and Babies The United States National Institutes of Health (NIH) began studies on mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda in 1997. A single dose of nevirapine was given to labouring mothers and to their newborn child. Those studies were reported to have lowered transmission of HIV by 50%. Sam Burcher 1st July 2005 |
Guinea Pig Kids in AIDS Drugs Trials The anti-HIV drugs, AZT and nevirapine, are known to be highly toxic and to cause serious side effects. Despite this, they are still being used in clinical trials involving some of the most vulnerable members of society, pregnant women and newborn babies in Africa, and orphans in the United States. Sam Burcher 30th June 2005 |
Towards a Biospheric Ethic 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 they have based their ethical principles on a grossly distorted view of nature and human society. The result is a 'technospheric' ethic that seeks to equate progress and the moral good with economic expansion and the dominance of man over nature Edward Goldsmith 25th January 2003 |
African Consumer Leaders Support Zambia African consumer leaders came out in support Zambia's rejection of GM food after a stormy 3-day conference in Lusaka. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 29th November 2002 |
The "Academic-Industrial-Military Complex" Engineering Life & Mind The "academic-industrial-military complex" is shaping every aspect of our lives, beginning with the kind of science and scientific research that gets done and gets reported. We are not only losing our right to self-determination and self-sufficiency, but most seriously of all, our right to think differently from the corporate establishment. The suppression of scientific dissent threatens the survival of science and endangers lives. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Jonathan Matthews 30th October 2002 |
Civil Society Organisations Condemn GM Food Aid More than 140 African civil society representatives and organisations from 26 countries have voiced their support of the Zambian and Zimbabwean governments for rejecting GM contaminated food ISIS 2nd September 2002 |
GM-free Food Aid! GM food, rejected across the world because it is unsafe, continues to be dumped as food aid (includes 'Famine as Commerce' by Devinda Sharma). ISIS 7th August 2002 |
Sense & Nonsense in Horizontal Gene Transfer What do most scientists do when faced with findings that threaten to topple the ruling paradigm? They describe the findings in detail, fail to interpret them correctly, and avoid discussing their practical implications, dismissing incriminating evidence. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 7th August 2002 |
Towards a Convention on Knowledge The advancement of science - the predominant knowledge system of the West - has been linked historically with progress and civilisation, and general improvement of the lives of the masses, at least up to the beginning of the twentieth century ISIS-SGR-TWN 27th July 2002 |
Rough Road from Doha to Johannesburg WTO's new mandate raises a key question: Who will decide our common future? The new mandate could intensify burning fossil fuels, logging native forests, depleting fisheries, use of toxic chemicals, and release of GMOs. Victor Menotti, Director of the International Forum on Globalisation Environment Program gives us a critical analysis Victor Menotti 20th March 2002 |
The Silenced Targets Amidst the claims of gene and nanotechnology to fix perceived disabilities, impairments and diseases and to eliminate world hunger, Dr. Gregor Wolbring looks critically at issues of decisionmaking and control, raising key questions. Dr. Gregor Wolbring 28th January 2002 |
Who Owns Scientific Knowledge? Professor Peter Saunders calls on all scientists to resist the privatisation of scientific knowledge by refusing to publish in journals belonging to publishers profiteering from closing off free access to scientific archives. Prof. Peter Saunders 1st October 2001 |
Independent Scientists An Endangered Species Independent scientists are a dying breed. All over the world, they are suffering persecution from an academicindustrial complex bent on promoting corporate science and technologies that endanger lives and destroy the planet Dr. Mae-Wan Ho 4th September 2001 |