Recent BSR Commentaries
26th October 2009
Salinization in the Sunderbans allows in situ conservation to prove its value
26th June 2009
The EU plans to regulate nanotechnologies, in food and elsewhere, using pre-existing legislation. However, there are excellent reasons to believe that this minimalist approach will not adequately protect consumers and the environment.
Commentary Archive
28th March 2009
19th November 2008
25th June 2008
12th May 2008
7th April 2008
25th March 2008
4th December 2007
30th November 2007
10th June 2007
14th April 2007
15th March 2007
28th February 2007
23rd February 2007
4th February 2007
Latest Book Review
Summarises the increasingly cogent intellectual critiques of scientific infallibility, objectivity and disinterestedness
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would it?"
Albert Einstein
The Bioscience Resource Project News Service
22nd February 2010
A paper presented at the Montreal 2009 joint dairy science meeting that was funded and subsequently widely distributed by Elanco claims that the American Medical Association, the American Cancer Society and the American Association of Pediatrics endorse the safety of rbGH. It also claims the endorsement of 17 other unspecified leading public health organisations in the United States. A coalition of consumer groups has pointed out that many of these claims are not accurate, however, and that the AMA, the ACS and the AAP have no policies on rbGH. The Bioscience Resource Project has also established that of the remaining 17 organisations, some have only tenuous connections to public health.
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News Exclusives
9th January 2010
25-26. March 2010, Bremen (Germany)
10th November 2009
The first withdrawal of a transgenic crop over food safety concerns
7th October 2009
Investigation finds no evidence that Jonathon Harrington grew GMO maize
16th April 2009
UCS report: Failure to Yield
21st October 2008
Bt transgenics and CCD
15th October 2008
Aid, social justice and environmental groups criticise Royal Society study proposal
17th June 2008
Daphnia magna survival and fitness reduced when fed on MON810 Bt maize
4th June 2008
Ten year persistence of transgenic oilseed rape volunteers from Swedish experiment
1st June 2008
Congressional investigation underway
4th May 2008
Important study condemns agro-industrial complex.
14th March 2008
Global coalition calls for nano precaution
18th December 2007
Amendment passes Senate hurdle
26th November 2007
Nature Biotechnology and the 'scientific' review of the Ermakova soy study
2nd November 2007
Ecological impacts of genetically engineered corn
2nd November 2007
'Flagrant fraud' or the science of GMO shopping?
8th June 2007
J. Craig Venter Institute Seeks Monopoly Patents on the World's First-Ever Human-Made Life Form
