Nocivité des OGM pour la santé : de nouveaux résultats accablants Edifiant. Une nouvelle étude scientifique menée sur des rats de laboratoires pendant deux ans montre les conséquences gravissimes sur la santé provoquées par la consommation d’un maïs OGM, le NK 603 de Monsanto résistant à l’herbicide Round Up. Le professeur de biologie moléculaire Gilles-Eric Séralini a mené cette étude dans le plus grand secret. D’abord afin de se procurer les semences OGM nécessaires à ses expérimentations. Et ensuite pour éviter que les puissants intérêts des industriels des biotechnologies fassent tout pour atténuer la publication de ces résultats fracassants. © Dean Sewell / Greenpeace La menace est là, bien réelle en France aussi Le maïs OGM NK 603 peut être présent dans l’alimentation animale (destinée au bétail notamment) mais aussi dans des aliments vendus directement aux consommateurs. L’EFSA doit cesser d’être l’antichambre des industriels des biotechnologies. La complaisance doit cesser !
Edheads - Activate Your Mind! Genetically modified mosquitoes may soon be released in Florida (NaturalNews) In an effort to help eradicate dengue fever and the mosquitos that spread it, the Florida Keys Mosquito Control District (FKMCD) is seeking federal and state approval to release hundreds of thousands of genetically-modified (GM) mosquitos designed to kill off the natural Aedes aegypti variety of the fly throughout Key West, Florida. The agency, which already routinely performs aerial sprayings of the area with anti-mosquito chemicals, believes it will save money in the long run by releasing the GM mosquitos. Rather than spend $400,000 or more a year to conduct the aerial sprayings, FKMCD says it would instead only have to spend $200,000 to $300,000 a year on the GM mosquitos. Created by U.K. If approved, the release of GM mosquitos in Key West will represent the first ever release of a GM creature in the U.S., and on a trial basis where scientists really have no idea what will happen. Sources for this article include:
History of evolutionary thought Evolutionary thought, the conception that species change over time, has roots in antiquity, in the ideas of the ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese as well as in medieval Islamic science. With the beginnings of biological taxonomy in the late 17th century, Western biological thinking was influenced by two opposed ideas. One was essentialism, the belief that every species has essential characteristics that are unalterable, a concept which had developed from medieval Aristotelian metaphysics, and that fit well with natural theology. Following the establishment of evolutionary biology, studies of mutation and variation in natural populations, combined with biogeography and systematics, led to sophisticated mathematical and causal models of evolution. Antiquity[edit] Greeks[edit] Proposals that one type of animal, even humans, could descend from other types of animals, are known to go back to the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers. Chinese[edit] Romans[edit] Augustine of Hippo[edit]
Gilles-Éric Séralini Un article de Wikipédia, l'encyclopédie libre. Gilles-Éric Séralini, né le à Bône en Algérie[1], est un universitaire français[2],[3], professeur de biologie moléculaire depuis 1991, chercheur à l'Institut de biologie fondamentale et appliquée (IBFA) de l'université de Caen et codirecteur du pôle Risques de l'université de Caen[4] (pôle associé au CNRS). Il s'est fait notamment connaître du grand public pour ses études sur les OGM et les pesticides et, en particulier, une étude toxicologique controversée et fortement médiatisée[5] publiée en septembre 2012, avant d'être retirée en novembre 2013, portée par le CRIIGEN, dont il est membre fondateur, mettant en doute l'innocuité du maïs génétiquement modifié NK 603 et du Roundup sur la santé de rats[6]. Biographie[modifier | modifier le code] Gilles-Éric Séralini est né en Algérie en 1960 d'un père technicien dans les télécommunications et d'une mère institutrice. Travaux[modifier | modifier le code] Controverses[modifier | modifier le code]
Shock study, replicates Milgram's findings Nearly 50 years after the controversial Milgram experiments, social psychologist Jerry M. Burger, PhD, has found that people are still just as willing to administer what they believe are painful electric shocks to others when urged on by an authority figure. Burger, a professor at Santa Clara University, replicated one of the famous obedience experiments of the late Stanley Milgram, PhD, and found that compliance rates in the replication were only slightly lower than those found by Milgram. "People learning about Milgram's work often wonder whether results would be any different today," Burger says. Stanley Milgram, PhD, was an assistant professor at Yale in 1961 when he conducted the first in a series of experiments in which subjects—thinking they were testing the effect of punishment on learning—administered what they believed were increasingly powerful electric shocks to another person in a separate room. —K.I.
Anti-Corruption | compliancecampaign On issues ranging from U.S. drone warfare to economic human rights to fair elections, protesters against the Republican National Convention this week and the Democratic National Convention the following week are highlighting a host of U.S. violations of international norms. How the police handle the demonstrations will showcase whether the United States respects another important international obligation of the U.S. government – respecting the right to assembly. Protests related to the RNC in Tampa, Florida, kicked off on Thursday with more than 100 peace activists demonstrating at the local Raytheon plant, stressing the company’s role in manufacturing unmanned aerial drones used by the U.S. to bomb countries such as Pakistan. The demonstration fell on the same day that Pakistan had summoned U.S. embassy officials to the Foreign Office to lodge protest over U.S. drone strikes in North Waziristan. The following day, the U.S. launched another drone attack in North Waziristan, killing 18.
Evolution Here then is the beta version of my strip about evolution. This is a chapter of the book Science Stories which will be out from Myriad Editions next spring. I'm sure there'll be mistakes here, so do feel free to point them out, so that I can make the necessary changes. Thank you. Note Oct 2013. Hi All.
EXCLUSIF. Oui, les OGM sont des poisons ! (Cet article paraît dans le "Nouvel Observateur" daté du 20 septembre 2012) C’est une véritable bombe que lance, ce 19 septembre à 15 heures, la très sérieuse revue américaine "Food and Chemical Toxicology" - une référence en matière de toxicologie alimentaire - en publiant les résultats de l’expérimentation menée par l’équipe du français Gilles-Eric Séralini, professeur de biologie moléculaire à l'université de Caen. Une bombe à fragmentation : scientifique, sanitaire, politique et industrielle. Elle pulvérise en effet une vérité officielle : l’innocuité du maïs génétiquement modifié. Lourdement toxique et souvent mortel Même à faible dose, l’OGM étudié se révèle lourdement toxique et souvent mortel pour des rats. En 2006, c’est comme un véritable thriller que commence cette recherche, dont le maître d’œuvre, Gilles-Eric Séralini, divulgue lui-même les conclusions dans un ouvrage à paraître la semaine prochaine ("Tous cobayes !" Nom de code In Vivo Pathologies lourdes, tumeurs mammaires
Walking Through Doorways Causes Forgetting We’ve all experienced it: The frustration of entering a room and forgetting what we were going to do. Or get. Or find. New research from University of Notre Dame Psychology Professor Gabriel Radvansky suggests that passing through doorways is the cause of these memory lapses. “Entering or exiting through a doorway serves as an ‘event boundary’ in the mind, which separates episodes of activity and files them away,” Radvansky explains. “Recalling the decision or activity that was made in a different room is difficult because it has been compartmentalized.” The study was published recently in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. Conducting three experiments in both real and virtual environments, Radvansky’s subjects – all college students – performed memory tasks while crossing a room and while exiting a doorway.
10 IRREFUTABLE evidence that GMO can harm you Nature is a living organism that functions through every cell and organ that is working together. There is nothing isolated in nature and everything is connected with one another. All these years, science has been trying to discover and explore complexity that exists in nature. However even the most advanced 3D engineering modeling and analysis cannot fully understand all the parameters and complexities that exists within the universe and sometimes the results aren’t even half close to reality. Only 3% of US farm lands are planted with fruits and vegetables while 50% of farms are used for planting soy and corn. In the last three decades, industrialized agriculture, biotechnology and extensive use of pesticides, herbicides and chemical fertilizers have resulted in a nutrient-deficient soil, mineral & nutritional deficiencies in soil, weak immune system in human beings and animals, new diseases, viruses & global warming. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Sources:
SVT Glycémie OGM : "Inconscience ? Lâcheté ? Collusion criminelle ?" Professeur de biologie moléculaire et chercheur à l'Institut de Biologie fondamentale et appliquée de l'université de Caen, Gilles-Eric Séralini publie le 26 septembre "Tous cobayes!" (Flammarion), le résultat d'une étude menée dans le plus grand secret pendant deux ans sur deux cents rats nourris au maïs transgénique. Conclusion ? Un effet toxique de l'OGM avéré sur l'animal. Et des inquiétudes pour l'homme… Interview. Il y avait une méfiance diffuse de l’opinion sur l’impact des OGM pour la santé humaine. - Oui, nous venons de réaliser l'étude la plus longue et la plus détaillée au monde sur la toxicité d'un maïs transgénique et sur celle du Roundup, l’herbicide le plus utilisé qui soit. Le grand scandale, celui dont je ne me remets pas, c’est que les agences sanitaires n’ont jamais exigé des industriels une étude de toxicité de longue durée. > A lire : l'intégralité de l'interview de Gilles-Eric Séralini et du dossier "Oui, les OGM sont des poisons !" Téléchargez le magazine :
Stanford Prison Exp IT BEGAN WITH AN AD in the classifieds. Male college students needed for psychological study of prison life. $15 per day for 1-2 weeks. More than 70 people volunteered to take part in the study, to be conducted in a fake prison housed inside Jordan Hall, on Stanford's Main Quad. The leader of the study was 38-year-old psychology professor Philip Zimbardo. Zimbardo encouraged the guards to think of themselves as actual guards in a real prison. The study began on Sunday, August 17, 1971. Forty years later, the Stanford Prison Experiment remains among the most notable—and notorious—research projects ever carried out at the University. The public's fascination with the SPE and its implications—the notion, as Zimbardo says, "that these ordinary college students could do such terrible things when caught in that situation"—brought Zimbardo international renown. The experiment is still a source of controversy and contention—even among those who took part in it. The Superintendent Zimbardo.