Monthly Archive: December 2014

Ecological neo-colonialism and Golden Rice.

Posted 23rd December 2014

Johnjoe McFadden Ecological  neo-colonialism continues to oppose the most beneficial GM crop, Golden Rice reaching the poor. Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) affects more than 200 million people in the world today, causing half a million children to go blind each year due and up to 2m die due to associated immunodeficiency. By moving genes that […]

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Eugenics: genetics dirty secret

Posted 20th December 2014

From Descartes to Darwin Though writers, philosophers and social scientists have been denying the existence of an essential core of humanity for the best part of a century, the debate on human nature has now entered a new phase. Modern science’s engagement with human nature can be traced back to the Enlightenment, when, as we’ve […]

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