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		<title>The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 00:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham, PhD Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing a pile of papers down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom. On another occasion, ...]]></description>
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		<title>The Experiment Is on Us: Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 00:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham, PhD New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday products, from soft drinks and baby foods, to paints, gardening products, cosmetics and shampoos, contain numerous synthetic chemicals as ...]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Hidden Viral Gene Safe? GMO Regulators Fail to Convince</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrlatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Latham, PhD and Allison Wilson, PhD Having unwittingly allowed a viral gene into the food chain, the response of regulators so far has been to release statements intended to allay public concerns. These statements, however, are inadequate to meet a potentially major food crisis. Not only do they ...]]></description>
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		<title>Regulators Discover a Hidden Viral Gene in Commercial GMO Crops</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 02:22:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrlatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Latham and Allison Wilson How should a regulatory agency announce they have discovered something potentially very important about the safety of products they have been approving for over twenty years? In the course of analysis to identify potential allergens in GMO crops, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) ...]]></description>
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		<title>How Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 00:10:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jonathan Latham The world record yield for paddy rice production is not held by an agricultural research station or by a large-scale farmer from the United States, but by Sumant Kumar who has a farm of just two hectares in Darveshpura village in the state of Bihar in Northern ...]]></description>
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		<title>Risk and Responsibility: Farming, Food, and Unconventional Gas Drilling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jrlatham</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michelle Bamberger and Robert E. Oswald (Photo credit: Marcellus Protest) Extraction of hydrocarbon gas from tight shale formations using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing has been advertised as a path toward energy independence for the United States and is being promoted worldwide. This is tempered by environmental and societal concerns ...]]></description>
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