Two scientists, working in conjunction with the Safe Food Foundation in Australia, claim CSIRO-developed genetically modified wheat may have unintended […]
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Experts call for urgent action on liver cancer
Leading health experts are warning that rates of liver cancer will soar over the next decade if urgent action isn’t […]
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The High court has has ruled in favour of NIWA, rejecting a legal challenge of the Crown Research Institute’s national […]
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The media have reported widely on the viewpoints put forward by science and industry at this week’s Agricultural Biotechnology International […]
Continue readingBent Spoon award ‘honours’ lack of critical thinking
NZ Skeptics have bestowed the yearly ‘Bent Spoon Award’ for un-skeptical behaviour upon Consumer magazine, on account of the magazine’s […]
Continue readingGM biotech players outline their science roadmaps
ABIC 2012 Digest – Day Two: SMC media advisor Dacia Herbulock is attending the ABIC conference in Rotorua this week […]
Continue readingNew plain packaging research – experts respond
As New Zealand deliberates over the introduction of ‘plain packaging’ for cigarettes, a new study confirms that such measures reduce […]
Continue readingIs ‘organic’ food healthier? – experts respond
New research, based on an analysis of several hundred studies, has cast doubt on arguments that organically grown foods are more […]
Continue readingFood security – How will we feed 9 billion people in 2050?
Global food supply will have to double by the middle of the century to feed the world’s burgeoning population, and […]
Continue readingFostering our emerging science communicators
At the recent Transit of Venus forum held in Gisborne the engaging and energetic discussions were overshadowed by one thing […]
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