(Authors listed below) (Traduction Francaise) A new paper by the French group of Gilles-Eric Seralini describes harmful effects on rats fed diets containing genetically modified maize (variety NK603), with and without the herbicide Roundup, as …
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Vitamin A Wars: the Downsides of Donor-driven Aid
Ted Greiner, Professor of Nutrition, Hanyang University, Korea (Photo Credit: Jon Orlando) Surely one of the most precious of human dreams is to become rich and famous by doing good for others. And what could …
Continue readingBiology as Ideology: The Doctrine of DNA
Book Author: Richard Lewontin Reviewed by: Jonathan Latham (The Bioscience Resource Project) Biologists know that complex traits are typically associated with genetic variation between individuals. Nevertheless, if we hear on the news that obesity, antisocial …
Continue readingDesigned to Fail: Why Regulatory Agencies Don’t Work
William Sanjour* Albert Einstein said the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. We have been “reforming” regulatory agencies over and over again, and over and …
Continue reading‘Phantom Heritability’ Indicates Poor Predictive Value of Gene Tests
Helen Wallace, GeneWatch UK (photo credit: jurvetson) Last week, a paper on “phantom heritability” was published by a research group led by Eric Lander, one of the leading contributors to understanding the implications of the …
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