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Report emphasizes biotech’s need for academic-corporate study — Authors discuss how to continue research, avoid ethical lapses

Posted on December 23, 2015 in Scientific Integrity | 78 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Tom Abate, San Francisco Chronicle, June 11, 2001 A report released today suggests how universities can continue taking research money from corporations while avoiding the pitfalls and conflicts that come with such collaborations. For roughly two decades, federal and state policies have encouraged universities and professors to […]

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Is the university-industrial complex out of control?

Posted on December 23, 2015 in Scientific Integrity | 90 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Nature, 11 January, 2001, Volume 409, Issue number 6817 Links between academia and industry are of increasing concern to academics and to society at large. The sectors involved should review their policies in order to sustain universities’ public accountability. In recent years, many universities have thrived […]

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The Green Revolution Yields to the Bottom Line

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 105 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Andrew Pollack, The New York Times, May 15, 2001 Dr. William Folk, a professor at the University of Missouri, wants to genetically engineer soybeans to improve their nutritional value. But he faces more than scientific hurdles. He and Monsanto never agreed on how he might […]

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Amazing Disgrace

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 86 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: The Ecologist, Vol 32 No 4, May 2002 A dirty tricks campaign leads straight to the door of a Monsanto PR company, says Jonathan Matthews in the launch of his new column The journal Science reporting recently on how the Mexican “maize scandal” was driving the battle over […]

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System Failure: Abort and Retry

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs | 229 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Statement of Mark Lipson, Policy Program Director, Organic Farming and Research Foundation, Food and Drug Administration, Public Hearing on “Biotechnology in the Year 2000 and Beyond,” Oakland CA, December 13, 1999 [Federal Register Docket# 99N-4282] The Organic Farming Research Foundation is a producer-directed organization dedicated to the improvement and adoption of […]

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Genetically Engineered Food Needs Better Regulation

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs | 78 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Marc Kaufman, The Washington Post, Wednesday, April 5, 2000 Genetically engineered crops appear to be safe but the government should better coordinate how it regulates them to make sure they don’t pose a danger to the environment or human health, a National Academy of Sciences report concluded […]

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Federal Panel Is Wary of Gene-Altered Corn

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs | 69 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Andrew Pollack, The New York Times, December 4, 2000 A federal advisory panel concluded yesterday that there was a “medium likelihood” that the genetically engineered corn known as StarLink is a potential allergen, a finding that could hurt the food industry’s quest to have the […]

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Arpad Pusztai Responds to a Critic

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 319 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. This response to Dr. Morton by Arpad Pusztai was part of an ongoing dialogue in 1999 or 2000 over published papers on the risks posed by genetically engineered foods. Dear Dr Morton, We now seem to be playing silly games with numbers and other unfortunate deviations […]

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Dr. Pusztai responds the Royal Society

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 126 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Dr Arpad Pusztai, Letter to the Royal Society, May 18. 1999 The Royal Society (RS) have updated their report on GM-food of September 1998. They have peer-reviewed the nutritional and immunology data on GM-potato work carried out at the Rowett Research Institute (Rowett) between 1995 & […]

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Lectin Research

Posted on December 23, 2015 in GMOs, Scientific Integrity | 92 Views | Leave a response
Historic posts are reprinted verbatim from their original source. Source: Transcript from Channel 4 News (UK), October 15, 1999 Andrew Veitch reported that biotech companies have invested millions in trying to engineer potatoes, maize and grapes to carry their own insecticides called lectins. That’s one reason for the alarm when Dr.Arpad Pusztai, a world expert on […]

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