ISIS (Institute of Science in Society)

Sets an example for all industrial nations Dr. Mae-Wan Ho and Prof. Peter Saunders The UK’s Low Carbon Transition Plan [1] (see UK’s Lacklustre Low Carbon Transition Plan, SiS 44) falls well short of the challenges that face us. ...

Blog - GeraldMartin - 2009-10-14 13:21 - 0 comments

The enormous potential of wind power Wind turbines on land could provide more than 40 times the world’s current electricity consumption or over five times its total energy needs. That’s the latest assessment using wind data from meteorological ...

Blog - GeraldMartin - 2009-10-07 10:25 - 0 comments

ISIS Press Release 23/03/09 For nearly a century, the overwhelming majority of biologists held firmly to the ‘neo-Darwinian’ dictum that organisms are strictly determined by their genetic make-up, which is essentially isolated from the ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2009-03-23 15:10 - 0 comments

Clinical trials of malaria vaccines on infants raise  serious concerns over the safety of multiple vaccinations of the very young    Effective implementation of existing measures have  eradicated malaria from many countries without using ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2009-03-17 13:37 - 0 comments

Major uncertainties over efficacy and safety for costly vaccines that only benefit the drug giants for sure Prof. Joe Cummins and Dr. Mae-Wan Ho Two years ago we reported on recombinant vaccines against the human papilloma virus (HPV) ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2009-01-06 11:12 - 0 comments

A forest levy and other financial mechanisms within the Kyoto Protocol are appropriate measures for protecting natural forests. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho General misconception leaves old growth forests especially vulnerable to wonton destruction ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2008-10-20 12:03 - 0 comments

A forest levy and other financial mechanisms within the Kyoto Protocol are appropriate measures for protecting natural forests. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho General misconception leaves old growth forests especially vulnerable to wonton destruction ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2008-10-20 12:03 - 0 comments

Two kinds of techniques, DNA fingerprints and DNA barcodes, have revolutionized the identification of individual organisms and species. The use of these techniques does not alter the DNA of the organism and does not involve genetic engineering. ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2008-10-16 13:20 - 0 comments

Mad Cow Disease and variant CJD It has been 20 years since Mad Cow Disease (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, BSE) appeared in Britain, killing more than180 000 cattle, and causing the mass slaughter of a further 5 million. The disease has jumped ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2005-08-23 15:49 - 0 comments

References for this article are posted on ISIS members’ website. Details here. The organism is like an ecosystem in many respects. It is highly complex. And like the ecosystems, it is useful to look at its complexity is in terms of organised, nested ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2005-08-23 15:42 - 0 comments

Generations of ecologists have puzzled over the causes of biodiversity and its relationship with productivity. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho investigates. A fully referenced version of this article are posted on ISIS members’ website. Details here. “Why are ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2005-08-23 15:40 - 0 comments

Dr. Veljko Velkovic presents evidence on how exercise may help treat and prevent AIDS, and if so, the simplest, most widely available and affordable natural 'vaccine' is being ignored. A fully referenced version of this report is posted on ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-04-07 13:36 - 0 comments

Quantum information processing takes advantage of some strange properties of the quantum world that have been known for more than a century. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho unravels some of the mysteries A more technical version of this article with sources ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-03-25 13:06 - 0 comments

ISIS Press Release 18/03/04 Quantum systems are more robust than previously thought, especially when weakly measured, with startling results. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports A complete version of this article with illustration and sources is posted ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-03-19 16:28 - 0 comments

How Carbohydrates Make Fats Dr. Mae-Wan Ho traces the tangled paths of how diet affects metabolism affects gene transcription affects metabolism… Sources for this report are available in the ISIS members site. ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-02-18 04:28 - 0 comments

Biology is promising its own unifying theory that explains all life, and the key is in how organisms use energy. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho investigates. The mouse to elephant line Naturalists have long observed that many living ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-26 13:59 - 0 comments

ISIS Press Release 01/12/03 Prof. Joe Cummins exposes the regulatory sham involved in GM crops containing a range of biopesticides At 80 million planted acres, corn is the largest crop grown in the US and accounts for one fifth of total ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-23 15:44 - 0 comments

ISIS Press Release 30/11/03 Prof. Joe Cummins finds evidence that Roundup Ready causes sudden death and other diseases by boosting fusarium in the soil. For several years, scientists have investigated the impact of herbicides, particularly ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-23 15:31 - 0 comments

Further evidence that most if not all commercially approved transgenic lines are genetically unstable and non-uniform has come to light. The transgenic lines fail to satisfy the current EU Directive requirements for proof of genetic stability and ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-23 15:24 - 0 comments

ISIS Press Release 02/12/03 Prof. Joe Cummins issues advance warning of new GM toxin from soil bacterium that’s to be incorporated into our food crops. The soil bacterium, Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), has proven to be a rich source of toxins ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-23 15:20 - 0 comments

ISIS Press Release 28/11/03 Mercury pollution is a growing global menace. Prof. Joe Cummins calls for UN regulation Mercury pollution is a growing problem worldwide, especially for communities in the orient and the arctic. Its impact has also ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-23 15:18 - 0 comments

Prof. Peter Saunders gives timely warning for maintaining the ban on a powerful ozone depleter Six years ago, 160 countries agreed in the Montreal Protocol to phase out substances that are known to deplete the ozone layer. The most important ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2004-01-23 13:51 - 0 comments

The UK’s farm scale evaluations have shown conclusively that the herbicide regime linked with GM spring oilseed rape and beet is damaging to biodiversity. Lim Li Ching reports. The three-year farm scale evaluations (FSEs), results of which were ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-11-13 20:01 - 0 comments

Assisted reproductive technologies are associated with a range of birth defects at least partly due to stresses experienced by germ cell and embryo during culture and storage. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho reports A longer, fully referenced version of this ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-11-06 23:48 - 0 comments

resounding "No" to GMOs. Sam Burcher reports. The response to GM crops in the UK’s GM Nation? public debate is an overwhelming "No". A total of 36,557 people returned the questionnaire accompanying the ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-10-27 18:58 - 0 comments

The insert in every commercially approved GM line has undergone rearrangement. The cauliflower mosaic virus promoter plays a major role. This should be the final nail in the coffin for GM crops, says Dr. Mae-Wan Ho , who has, for years, challenged ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-10-23 21:37 - 0 comments

The UK Government’s GM Science Review issued its First Report in July 2003 amid accusations of pro-GM bias. One member of the Panel resigned weeks earlier, and another complained that a senior scientist attempted to undermine his research funding and ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-10-20 19:13 - 0 comments

Independent and family farmers in the UK call for a new body to oversee publicly-funded science in place of the current funding council, to set priority for sustainable farming for Britain. Lim Li Ching reports. FARM ( www.farm.org.uk ), a ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-10-10 21:10 - 0 comments

A global circulation of water between the surfaces and the depths of oceans plays a major role in keeping the earth’s climate congenial to life. But this circulation is unstable to global warming, with catastrophic consequences. Dr. Mae-Wan Ho ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-10-01 21:22 - 0 comments

‘Climate change’ conjures up a picture of a gradual process occurring in the timescale of the earth, hundreds if not thousands of years. Not anymore. Since the mid 1990s, scientists have been asking if climate change might be abrupt, in other words, it ...

Blog - Natural Solutio... - 2003-10-01 21:19 - 0 comments