by T Colin Campbell, Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus, Cornell University Few issues have become so intensely debated and politically charged as the need to reform the health care system. This debate has resulted in …
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Can the Scientific Reputation of Pamela Ronald, Public Face of GMOs, Be Salvaged?
by Jonathan Latham, PhD Professor Pamela Ronald is probably the scientist most widely known for publicly defending genetically engineered (GE or GMO) crops. Her media persona, familiar to readers of the Boston Globe, the Wall …
Continue readingStill Chasing Ghosts: A New Genetic Methodology Will Not Find the “Missing Heritability”
By Evan Charney, Duke Institute for Brain Science, Duke University One of the hopes and promises of the Human Genome Sequencing Project was that it would revolutionize the understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of most human …
Continue readingScience and Social Control: Political Paralysis and the Genetics Agenda
By Jonathan Latham, PhD (Originally posted July 31st and lost after a DDOS (electronic) attack). Variations in individual “educational attainment” (essentially, whether students complete high school or college) cannot be attributed to inherited genetic differences. …
Continue readingHow Millions of Farmers are Advancing Agriculture For Themselves
by Jonathan Latham, PhD 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 …
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