Debate over genetically modified food gets an educational home on the web
...ted on the four-year-old SCOPE site. The first two controversies focused on the world's declining amphibian population and on malaria and the use of DDT to contain it. The National Science Foundation is a major funder of the effort. One of the architects of the SCOPE site is Philip Bell, assistant professor in the...Renowned author, scientist and professor, John L. Casti, returns to IIASA
...a layman's account of several of the most puzzling controversies in modern science. He also authored Would-Be Worlds and The Cambridge Quintet. IIASA is an independent, non-governmental, interdisciplinary research institution, which specializes in natural and social scientific research methods and models for use...Licensing procedure for genetically modified organisms turns out to be fallible
...d Nature has to a large extent involved artificial controversies because thematter of the relevance of certain research questions was hardly considered. Theomission in the bureaucratic licensing procedure is also to be found in the EuropeanUnions Directive 90/220/EEC and In the Familiarity policy pursued by OECD.T...Chemistry to play major role in solving 21st century challenges
...nt of the Rockefeller Foundation, is concerned the controversies may "so polarize consumers, producers, industry an...hnology," according to the article. "The ensuing controversies could delay exploitation of what the advocates of agricultural biotechnology claim to be its enormou...... dogma to some people that they are."Settling such controversies is complicated by the lack of data on the littleanimals, which are rare and extremely difficult to breed in captivity. In another case, noted Ankel-Simons, scientists had categorized a smallSouth American monkey called a Callimico as a vertic...