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A 2010 article that expresses huge concern at the politicisation of science in India

I found this and thought it worth OCRing and sharing. The Anger of Aubergines – Shantu Shantaram and Shanthu Shanthararn, India International Centre Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1 (SUMMER 2010), India will go down in the history of modern biotechnology as the first country in the world to have politically vetoed a proven safe and […]

My next TOI blog post: Addressing Kavitha Kuruganti’s second article against GM crops

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My next TOI blog post: If Mr Modi wants to double farmers’ incomes, he must first promote biotechnology

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No, the WHO has NOT banned glyphosate! And the EPA says the weed killer is safe and noncarcinogenic.

FIRST OF ALL, NO, THE WHO HAS NOT BANNED Glyphosate. In any case, WHO does not ban things. This hullabaloo is about a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)’s classification of of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen` What is this agency? It is a part of the WHO. But it […]

The distinguished voices against climate panic – and there are many of them

There are lot of distinguished scientists on the side of climate panic. But there are also many distinguished voices against it. I’ll be writing another post on this issue in the coming days on my TOI blog but thought I’d better study the topic a bit more. Those who oppose the panic are among the […]

Dossier on Vandana Shiva – a foreign-funded violence-supporting saboteur who can’t identify a rice plant

I had heard about Vandana Shiva in the past but thought she is just plain stupid – intellectually feeble, being incapable of understanding science and economics. In recent days I’ve come across a really dark side to her approach and am starting this a public dossier. This post will evolve as more information comes in. […]

Translation of a German article on the recent civil disobedience by farmers

The following is a machine translation of the German article here. Completely unnoticed by the German public, farmers in India practiced civil disobedience in June. They protest that the Indian government is preventing effective measures to protect the environment and crops. When it comes to the protection of the environment or protests against genetic engineering, German […]

Continuing civil disobedience by farmers

I don’t have time to keep track, but will update here as and when I find time. I’m mostly posting on twitter under #KisanSatyagraha The 10 June event was covered in my TOI blog post, here. Also video here. There have been many other events since then. 13 June 2019 Mahadeo Khamkar , village Anandwadi, […]

Do the greens have a plan to wipe out human population?

They do think a lot about a much lower population: One-child policy for Australia, says green group More Population Madness, More Human Culls And there is big money for those who promote policies that reduce population in India. “By the late 1960s, population control became official US government policy. US President Lyndon Johnson (1963-69) openly […]

CS Prakash interview by Kevin Folta on recent farmer civil disobedience

I’ve extracted on Youtube: Youtube has transcribed. I’ve spent a few minutes to sort out the text. Download Word version here. ==TEXT== Prakash: And again biotechnology is just one of the solutions that farmers see. It not only cuts down the use of pesticides but also the expense that goes along with it, and on […]