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When I was a pre-med student in 1971, taking a course in genetics, the very first lecture was about Trofim Lysenko (1898-1976), the Soviet biologist who, in the 1930s and 1940s, had great influence during the years of Stalin’s rule, becoming the Director of the Soviet Union Lenin All-Union (...)
Besides the main march in Washington, organizers said more than 600 ’satellite’ marches were due to take place globally in a protest timed to coincide with Earth Day
LONDON (CNN) —
Crowds of people are marching Saturday in the United States and around the world in support of science and (...)
Scientists’ anger and outrage at Donald Trump’s climate-change denial and more is bubbling up in many forms, ranging from guerilla tweets to the call for a March for Science on Earth Day. Chris Williams, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, makes the case (...)
MARCH FOR SCIENCE
EARTH DAY
APRIL 22, 2017
#marchforscience
SCIENCE, NOT SILENCE
The March for Science is a celebration of our passion for science and a call to support and safeguard the scientific community. Recent policy changes have caused heightened worry among scientists, and the (...)
Scientists begin going rogue, create alt Twitter account and plan march on D.C.
Scientists working in the federal government are not happy with the science-denying direction this administration is already taking in week one. WEEK ONE! Here’s the bone-chilling directive sent to employees of the (...)
As a result of a collective work, here is our Manifesto for a Responsible Scientific Research. Fondation Sciences Citoyennes purpose is to encourage debates concerning the scientific research aims and the means to implement individual and collective accountability in this field. MANIFESTO FOR A (...)
For the first, our media mujahid does not enlighten us as to why has the Lord of the Worlds battered Haiti and Cuba through Sandy for an anti-Islam film produced by the USA. One really hopes the Lord knows that Cuba is Uncle Sam’s officially-designated ‘enemy no 1’
Conspiracy theories and absurd (...)
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 well as Roundup alone. This peer-reviewed study (Seralini et al., 2012), has been criticized by (...)
Fifty years after the publication of the book that laid the foundations for the environmental movement, what have we learned from the biologist who saw the need for science to work with nature?
Near a brook in south-east England, the bird-spotter JA Baker stumbled on a grim little scene in (...)
A second US state lets schools ‘teach the controversy’ surrounding politically charged topics in science.
The governor of Tennessee has allowed the passage of the ’monkey bill’, giving public-school teachers licence to teach alternatives to those mainstream scientific theories often attacked by (...)
Scientists are pleading with the governor of Tennessee to veto a proposed law known as the ’Monkey Bill’ which would allow teachers to teach creationism in the classroom.
The measure has already passed through the state’s legislature, dominated by the conservative Tea Party wing of the Republican (...)
While trust in science remained stable among people who self-identified as moderates and liberals in the United States between 1974 and 2010, trust in science fell among self-identified conservatives by more than 25 percent during the same period, according to new research from Gordon Gauchat, (...)
In a disturbing trend, anti-evolution campaigners are combining with climate change deniers to undermine public education.
You might have thought it was all over after the 2005 decision by the US district court of Middle Pennsylvania , which ruled in the case of the Dover Area schools that (...)
What role does our present play in shaping our understanding of past? How is history writing affected by contemporary politics? Why should anyone but a history student bother with these questions? In recent times, we have seen history playing an important role in shaping our politics and vice (...)
Sir David Attenborough has weighed into a campaign calling for creationism to be banned from the school science curriculum and for evolution to be taught more widely in schools.
The naturalist joined three Nobel laureates, the atheist Richard Dawkins and other leading scientists in calling on (...)
COMSTECH is the Organisation of Islamic Countries’ highest scientific body. It has received millions of dollars from OIC countries, including Pakistan.
Comstech’s magnificent headquarters are located on Constitution Avenue in Islamabad. It has been headed by Dr Atta-ur-Rahman since 1996. (...)
This text is the initial result of the 1st Science & Democracy World Forum which took place in Belém on 26-27 January 2009.
It has been written and accepted by citizens of 18 countries from 4 continents. It initiates an open and inclusive global process that seeks to build an international (...)
Sometimes, I am wondering, with some anxiety, about what people might be thinking about the social conscience of us, the scientists. On the one hand, we hear on the radio or we see on television, not very often one must admit, polite fellows, male or female, who try their best to wear some (...)
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