Union of Concerned Scientists
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California bill would curb open records requests used to harass biotech, public health researchers
Corporations and activists from the left and the right are abusing open records laws to harass public university researchers. A ...
Harassment of scientists not ‘necessary evil in quest for science accountability’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. On January 10, the New ...
Union of Concerned Scientists: ‘USDA does not invest sufficiently in agroecology’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Our entrenched industrial agriculture system has ...
Improving open records rules can provide transparency, protect scientists from harassment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some argue that we ...
Union of Concerned Scientists joins criticism of USRTK, PLoS on biotech science literacy “transparency”
UCS joins a growing list of independent groups criticizing Paul Thacker and Charles Seife for misrepresentations in their article savaging ...
Corn: Debating the importance of corn in feeding the planet
For the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador writes, in part: Nowhere is the power and prowess of agricultural science ...
Corn? No. Why we need to cut down corn production
Nowhere is the power and prowess of agricultural science so evident as in the Midwestern Corn Belt. Since the 19th century, ...
Agroecology, conventional breeding superior to GMOs
My last post discussed the success of public sector scientists who discovered and developed genes in soybean, using conventional breeding, that confer ...
