Low-dose BPA: confirmed by extensive literature
Frederick S vom Saal The Association of Plastics Manufacturer’s (APM) attempt to discredit scientific findings that threaten corporate products by invoking the concept of ‘sound science’ has fai...
Science on trial for uncertainty
Chris Pamplin There is a fundamental incompatibility between science and the English legal system. And that is certainty. The courts want it; science cannot provide it. For any hypothesis to ...
Supporting GM trials in the UK is fundamentally about supporting scientific research
In 2007, 12m farmers grew GM crops on over 110m hectares, because they recognised the benefits of GM technology, such as protecting yields and increasing productivity; advancing developing nations’ ec...
High agricultural prices: fuel for the transformation of agriculture?
Much has been written about the causes and negative implications of the ongoing increase in agricultural commodity prices. However, little has been said about the performance of the agricultural secto...
Can chemistry ever be sexy?
It isn’t a case of ‘whodunnit’ but more an exercise in reverse forensics – a new phenomenon that seeks solutions to a well-entrenched problem. Rather than looking for evidence against the culprits, in...
Ethanol: Don’t believe the hype
With ethanol production 20 times what it was 25 years ago, established interests like Big Oil and the food industry are crying foul. The result: biofuels get blamed for everything from hogging water to increasing greenhouse gases and causing starvation
An ocean apocalypse now
Many of us who love the oceans are likely reading with alarm the news reports on the impact of CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels that is creating ocean acidification and a survival crisis for our c...