VIETNAM RELEASES MOSQUITOES WITH BACTERIA THAT CURE DEMGUE FEVER!!!!!! This bacteria, though not cut and spliced, is a genome and it may solve the horrible problem of Dengue. from CBS News: VietnamNguyen Thi Yen rolls up the sleeves of her white lab coat and delicately slips her arms into a box cove[...]
Posts Tagged ‘anti Science’
Brain Drain From US Begins
Janet Rae-Dupree at Forbes writes that US scientists are leaving because of funding chaos. The scientific denialism of the Repricans can not be helping either! http://www.forbes.com/sites/janetraedupree/2013/09/25/us-scientists-are-leaving-the-country-and-taking-the-innovation-economy-with-them/[...]
November 7th, 2013 - 10:15 am § in Hypocrisy, The Ave Scene
Aftermath of 522
The Independent has an excellent summary of the state of the art on gene splicing … the REAL issues behind 522 …. Washington State’s failed initiative to label any food containing genomes that have been modified using the tool set of molecular genetics. I votes against this becau[...]
November 6th, 2013 - 9:40 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
Science Denial Aids County Budget
King County snowplows to be scarce this winter The county will plow only 10 percent of its road miles this winter, a casualty of a decline in the county roads budget.[...]
October 29th, 2013 - 4:14 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
GMOs for safety
About 2/3rds of the way through this video on high tech safety, watch how UW scientists, working with colleagues at U Colorado show how bacteria can add new genes to plants! These genes are designed to detect bombs at the airports![...]
Initiative 522 … labelling “GMO” foods.
Yesterday’s NY Times had a very balanced discussion of the issue of glyphosphate, “RoundUp.” I mention this because I have been responding to a thread on a “progressive” listserv. The author of the thread is campaigning for our state’s initiative “522[...]
Busting the Cig Pushers
Brooklyn, NY – DA Busts Nearly $5 Million In Counterfeit Cigarettes At BP Warehouse Today 02:37 PM Brooklyn, NY – Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes today announced the arrest of Yin Haun Zhao, charged with running a counterfeit cigarette ring that netted millions of dollars[...]
May 6th, 2013 - 10:51 pm § in America
Darwin Falls Down
EllenGraceJones tell us Darwin was wrong, and we need to update our model of evolution, She’s a fashion editor. An interesting experiment and indeed correct in that we are still evolving, however to attribute it to the Victorian, matter-based, Darwinian model of evolution is backward-thinking and [...]
May 1st, 2013 - 9:33 am § in The Ave Scene
UPCOMING EVENT: Stephen Meyer Shows Why Darwin Was Wrong
For those not in the know, Steve Meyers is Seattle’s Discovery Institute’s leader in the effort to show that Darwin and Bio9logy are wrong. Dr. Meyers, with a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from Cambridge, is a founder the Institute’s Center for Science & Cultur[...]
Diabetes and The GMO Initiative
The other night at dinner, I had a conversation about Washington States ant 522 initiative requiring labeling of GMP foods. The conversation led to a discussion about the problems most people have understanding the science behind today’s miracle drugs and even foods. For example, David Men[...]