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1 1 of 5 23/03/ :45 Institute of Science in Society ISSN: (print) ISSN: (online) [Science in Society Webpage] 1. Hazards Ignored 1.1 Health Hazards GM Crops in General Pharmaceutical Producing Crops Cloned Transgenic Animal Products GM Microbes Gene Therapy Risks Same as Those for Genetic Modification of Plants and Animals Genetic Engineering Creates Viruses and Bacteria that Cause Diseases 1.2 Hazards to Agriculture and the Environment GM Crops in General GM Trees Terminator Crops Transgene Contamination Transgenic Lines Unstable 2. Scientific Fraud 3. Regulatory Sham 4. Violation of Farmers' Rights 5. Some ISIS Scientific Papers on Genetic Modification 1. Hazards Ignored 1.1 Health Hazards GM Crops in General Argentina's GM Woes, SiS 20, pp Cows Ate GM Maize and Died, SiS 21, pp.4-6 Bt Toxin Binds to Mouse Intestine, SiS 21, p.7 Liver of Mice Fed GM Soya Works Overtime, SiS 21, p.7 Animals Avoid GM Food, for Good Reasons, SiS 21, pp.9-11 Transgenic DNA & Bt Toxin Survive Digestion, SiS 21, p.11 New GM Toxin Looms Over our Food, SiS 21, p.25 Promises and Perils of GM Rice, SiS 23, pp Superbug with Anthrax Genes, SiS 23, p.25 DNA in GM Food & Feed, SiS 23, pp Drought Resistant GM Rice Toxic? SiS 24, p.29 Are Transgenic Proteins Allergenic?SiS 25, pp.4-5 Beware Monsanto's Vistive Soybeans, SiS 25 p.5 Death Domains in New Bio-pesticides, SiS 26, p.11 Glyphosate Toxic & Roundup Worse, SiS 26, p.12 Why not Transgenic High Lysine Maize, SiS 29 pp.22,24 GM Ban Long Overdue, Dozens Ill & Five Deaths in the Philippines, SiS 29, pp Transgenic Pea that Made Mice Ill, SiS 29, pp More Illnesses Linked to Bt Crops, SiS 30, pp.8-10 Mass Deaths in Sheep Grazing on Bt Cotton, SiS 30, pp GM Protein in Ice Cream, SiS 31, p.9 GM Crops and Microbes for Health or Public Health Hazards? SiS 32, pp GM Soya Fed Rats: Stunted, Dead, or Sterile, SiS 33, pp.4-6 GM Grapevines & Toxic Wines, SiS 33, pp. 50,51 GM Maize MON 863 Toxic, SiS 34, pp. 26, Pharmaceutical Producing Crops Pharming Cytokines in Transgenic Crops, SiS 18, p. 32 Pharm Crop Stalled for Now, SiS22, pp Human Proteins in GM Rice Linked to Diseases, SiS 22, p.30 Cancer Promoting Transgenic Rice, SiS 22, p. 31 Pharm Crop Products in US Market, SiS 23, pp Ban Plant-based Transgenic Pharmaceuticals, SiS 23, p.29 Pharm Crops for Vaccines and Therapeutic Antibodies, SiS 24, pp Pharming by Chloroplast Transformation, SiS 27, pp.4-5 GM Pharmaceuticals from Common Green Alga, SiS 27, pp.6-7
2 2 of 5 23/03/ :45 No to Releases of Transgenic Plants with Antimicrobial Peptides, SiS 28, p.9 Drug Trial Catastrophe & Safety of Secretly Tested Pharm Crops, SiS 30, p.50 Transgenic Maize with Monoclonal Antibodies Grown in France, SiS 31, p Cloned Transgenic Animal Products Transgenic Meat Scandal, SiS 18 pp Death Sentence on Cloning, SiS 19, pp Transgenic Fish Coming, SiS 21, pp GM Food Animals Coming, SiS32, pp Cloned BSE-Free Cows, Not Safe Nor Proper Science, SiS 33, pp GM Microbes GM Microbes Invade North America, SiS 18 p.34 Bio-remediation Without Caution, SiS 23, p.40 Ban GM Probiotics, SiS 26 p.29 GM Probiotic Bacteria in Gene Therapy, SiS 31, pp Yeasts Targeted for High Ethanol Production, SiS 33, p Gene Therapy Risks Same as Those for Genetic Modification of Plants and Animals Gene Therapy Risks Exposed, SiS 19, pp.45,50 Gene Therapy Woes, SiS 26, pp Controversy over Gene Therapy 'Breakthrough', SiS 26, p.38 Gene Therapy Nightmare for Mice Could Humans Be Next?, SiS 31, p Genetic Engineering Creates Viruses and Bacteria that Cause Diseases Bioterrorism & SARS, SiS 18, pp.6-8 Death by DNA Shuffling, SiS 18, pp.9, 11 SARS virus Genetically Engineered? SiS 19, pp No Biosecurity without Biosafety, Biodefence Research Endangers the Public, SiS 26 pp No to GM Smallpox! SiS 26 pp Recombinant Cervical Cancer Vaccine, SiS 29, pp Field-Testing a DNA Canine Melanoma Vaccine, SiS 29 p Hazards to Agriculture and the Environment GM Crops in General GM Crops Harm Wildlife, SiS 20, pp.4-6 Roundup Ready Sudden Death Syndrome, SiS 21, p.24 GM Crops Increase Pesticide Use, SiS 21, pp GM Cotton that People Forgot, SiS 25, pp GM Cotton Fiascos Around the World, SiS 25 pp GM Crop Fails Final Test, SiS 26, p.32 SOS: Save our Seeds, SiS 27, pp Italy's Genebank at Risk, SiS 27, pp GM Soya Disaster in Latin America: Hunger, Deforestation and Socio- Ecological Devastation, SiS 28, pp Roundup Ready Sudden Death, Superweeds, Allergens, time to Wipe GM Crops off the Globe, SiS 28, pp Scientists Confirm Failures of Bt-Crops, SiS 28, pp GM Trees Transgenic Trees Spread Mercury Poisoning, SiS 20, p.36 Low Lignin GM Trees and Forage Crops, SiS 23, pp Roundup Kills Frogs, SiS 26, p.13
3 3 of 5 23/03/ :45 GM Forest Trees, the Ultimate Threat, SiS 26, pp View from MADS House, SiS 26, p.22 GM Trees Lost in China's Forests, SiS 26, pp UN Cautions over GM Trees, SiS 30, pp Terminator Crops Chronicle of an Ecological Disaster Foretold, SiS 18, pp New Terminator Crops Coming, SiS 19, p Terminator Trees, SiS 26, pp Transgene Contamination Transgenic Contamination of Certified Seed Stocks, SiS 19, p.48 Secret Trials in 'GM-Free' Australia, SiS 24, p.20 Europe Acts Swiftly to Keep Out Unapproved GM Maize, SiS 26, p.26, 28 GM Contamination Accelerating No Co-Existence Possible, SiS 29, pp Transgenic Lines Unstable Transgenic Lines Proven Unstable, SiS 20, pp Unstable Transgenic Lines Illegal, SiS 21, p Scientific Fraud GM Science Review Fixed? SiS 18 p.19 Royal Society Under Fire, SiS 18, pp Science Advisors Abusing Public Trust, SiS 18 p.22 Science Avisors Abusing Science, SiS 18, pp.23-25, 47 Genetically Modifying Science, SiS 19, pp.4-6 GM Science Review Deeply Flawed, SiS 19 pp.7-9 The GM National Debate Farce, SiS 19 pp Dirty Works in UK's GM Science Review, SiS 19, pp Cynical & Dishonest Science in GM Maize Trials SiS 20, pp.8, 9, 11 No Bt Resistance? SiS 20, pp Independent Science Panel Rejects Conclusions of GM Science Review, SiS 20, p.37 Rotten to the Corp, SiS 21, pp Biotech Critic Denied Tenure, SiS 21, p.33 Exposed: More Shoddy Science in GM Maize Approval, SiS 22, pp Bogus Comparison in GM Maize Trial, SiS 22, pp Puncturing the GM Myths, SiS 22, pp Meacher Calls for Enquiry into GM Safety, SiS 22, pp Collusion and Corruption in GM Policy, SiS23, pp PR posing as Science in Crop Biotechnology, SiS 25 p.8 GM Cotton: Corruption, Hype, Half-truths and Lies, SiS 25, pp Which Science or Scientists Can you Trust? SiS 26, pp. 4-5 Science versus Democracy, SiS 26, p.6 Syngenta GM Maize Scandals, SiS 26, p.25 India's Bt Cotton Fraud, SiS 26 pp Cover-up over GM DNA in Milk, SiS 27, pp.8-9 Bt10 Detection Method Unacceptable, SiS 27, pp What Science, What Europe? SiS 27, pp Outsourcing Ecological and Health Risks & Reducing Scientists to Bio-coolies for Industry, SiS 28, pp London Drug Trial Catastrophe Collapse of Science and Ethics, SiS 30, pp
4 4 of 5 23/03/ :45 Post-Mortem on the TGN1412 Disaster, SiS 30, pp , 47 Warning on FDA Approved Monoclonal Antibody Drugs, SiS 30, pp Regulatory Sham The Precautionary Principle is Science-based, SiS 18 pp Approving GM Crops is Abusing Science, SiS 21, pp.21, 24 Regulatory Sham on Bt Crops, SiS 21, p. 30 Bt Toxins in Genetically Modified Crops: Regulation by Deceit, SiS 22, pp Approval of Bt11 Maize Endangers Humans and Livestock, SiS23, pp Beware the New Biotech Eurovision, SiS 24, p No to GM Oilseed Rape GT73, SiS 24, pp Synthetic Genes in Food Crops, SiS 24, p.21 ISP Bid to Stop US Rubber-Stamping Transgene Contamination, SiS 25, pp.9-10 GM Sugar Beet Turned Sour, SiS 25, p.10 Deregulation of Glyphosate Tolerant Creeping Bentgrass Out of Question, SiS 29, p.21 GM Trees in Secret Location in Britain, SiS30, p.11 European Commission Accuses Its Own Food Safety Authority of GMO Bias Wide Ranging Changed Introduced, SiS 30, p. 16 USDA Proposes to Deregulate Its Won Transgenic Plum, SiS 31, pp.5-7 GM Egg Plant Contains Bt Toxin Linked to Hunreds of Allergy Cases and Thousands of Sheep Deaths, SiS 31, pp.8-9 FDA Under Fire for Corporate Links that Compromise Science, SiS 31, p.50 GM Rice Contamination How Regulators Tried to Sidestep the Law, SiS 32, pp.4-5 USDA Poised to Deregulate Illegal GM Rice, SiS 32, pp. 6-7 GM Wine Sold Unlabelled in the United States, SiS 33, pp.9-10 Universal Condemnation Meets UK Government's Green Light for GM Potato Trials, SiS 33, pp Is FDA Promoting or Regulating Cloned Meat and Milk? SiS 33, pp GM Food Nightmare Unfolding and the Regulatory Sham, SiS 33, pp Approval of GM Crops Illegal, US Federal Courts Rule, SiS 34, p.24 GM Protein for Ice Cream Not Ready for Commercial Use, SiS 34, p.25 GM Maize Not Safe, SiS 34, pp.27, Violation of Farmers' Rights Schmeiser's Battle for the Seed, SiS 19, pp GM Crops Irrelevant for Africa, SiS 20, pp.12, 13 Lest We Forget, SiS 20, pp. 45, 47 GM crops Threaten Cultural & Ecological Integrity, SiS21, pp Broken Promises, SiS 22, pp Corporate Patents vs People in GM Rice, SiS 23, pp ISP to FAO: GM Crops Not the Answer, SiS 23, p.41 Feeding the World or the Corporations? SiS 25, pp.6-7 How Europe is Re-colonizing America with Help from the Natives, SiS 25, pp Australia Adopts GM Cotton, SiS 25 pp
5 5 of 5 23/03/ :45 Iraqi Government Urged to Revoke Cynical and Wicked Patent Law, SiS 26, pp , 50 Monsanto versus Farmers, SiS 26, pp. 33, 48 Agriculture without Farmers, SiS 27, pp GM Crops for Africa? No Thanks, SiS 28, pp Indian Cotton Farmers Betrayed, SiS 29, pp Return to Organic Cotton & Avoid the Bt-Cotton Trap, SiS 29, pp Stem Farmers' Suicides with Organic Farming, SiS 32, pp , 48 Some ISIS Scientific Papers on Genetic Modification 1. CAMV 35s promo hotspot confirmed ho ryan cummins 2. CaMV promoter hazards of transgenic plants 3. CaMV promoter reciepe for disaster 4. GM probiotics should be banned 5. Reply to gm microbes for health
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