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Znet Article Monbiot: Stewards Of The Natural World Do Not Understand The Precautionary Principle

Znet Article, May, 03 2013 George Monbiot
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The UK government does not possess a definition of the principle at the heart of environmental protection and law

Znet Article Hoodbhoy: On Elections, Extremism, and Science

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Interview on the upcoming general elections in Pakistan, the performance of the previous government, minority and sectarian issues, and secularism

Znet Article Monbiot: Beware The Rise Of The Government Scientists Turned Lobbyists

Znet Article, May, 01 2013 George Monbiot
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From badgers to bees, government science advisers are routinely misleading us to support the politicians' agendas

Commentary Kagarlitsky: The Ponomaryov Principle

Commentary, April, 25 2013 Boris Kagarlitsky
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The current corruption scandals clearly demonstrate that Skolkovo has already failed as a scientific and technological project

Znet Article Chomsky: Where Artificial Intelligence Went Wrong

Znet Article, November, 03 2012 Noam Chomsky
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Interview on artificial intelligence and why it may be headed in the wrong direction

Commentary Shiva: Science and Democracy

Commentary, March, 28 2012 Vandana Shiva
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The debate on Genetic Engineering and Nuclear Power is a test case of the intense conflict between corporate rule and democracy

Znet Article Monbiot: A Question of Faith

Znet Article, December, 09 2011 George Monbiot
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If people are committed to an unscientific position, no evidence or argument will shake them out of it

Commentary Chomsky: Chomsky Sessions II, Science, Religion and Human Nature, Part II

Commentary, September, 24 2011 Noam Chomsky
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On conspiracy theories and human nature

Commentary Chomsky: The Chomsky Sessions II, Science, Religion and Human Nature, Part I

Commentary, September, 18 2011 Noam Chomsky
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Michael Albert interviews Noam Chomsky on science, religion and human nature

Znet Article Eidelson: The Dark Side of “Comprehensive Soldier Fitness”

Znet Article, March, 25 2011 Roy Eidelson
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Why is the world’s largest organization of psychologists so aggressively promoting a new, massive, and untested military program? The APA’s enthusiasm for mandatory “resilience training” for all U.S. soldiers is troubling on many counts.

Znet Article Podur: I am not a gadget

Znet Article, January, 09 2011 Justin Podur
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Because he is so well informed and such an authority on the topics, I was inclined to just read the book and agree with everything. Which I did, until I couldn't any more.

Commentary Hoodbhoy: A Case Of Bogus Science

Commentary, November, 19 2010 Pervez Hoodbhoy
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Comstech is the Organization of Islamic Countries' highest scientific body. It has received millions of dollars from OIC countries, including Pakistan.

Znet Article Olson: Empathy & Neuropolitics

Znet Article, June, 26 2010 Gary Olson
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Mirror neurons, the brain cells believed to be the basis for empathy, have recently been identified in the human brain. And yet we’re left to explain the disjuncture between this deep-seated, pre-reflective, moral intuition and the paucity of act...

Commentary Jensen: The Soul Seeker: A Neuroscientist's Search For The Human Essence

Commentary, June, 08 2010 Robert Jensen
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Welcome to the world of "possibilian" neuroscientist-writer David Eagleman, to life in the space between what-is and what-if, between the facts we think we know and the fictions that illuminate what we don't know.

Znet Article Chomsky: Cognitive Science & Anarchism

Znet Article, March, 28 2010 Noam Chomsky
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An interview...

Commentary Shah: Behind Mass Die-Offs, Pesticides Lurk as Culprit

Commentary, January, 09 2010 Sonia Shah
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Originally published in Yale Environment 360, Sonia Shah writes that in the past dozen years, three new diseases have decimated populations of amphibians, honeybees, and — most recently — bats. Increasingly, scientists suspect that low-level e...

Video Sharma: Perils of GM Food

Video, January, 03 2010 Devinder Sharma
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Dr.Devinder Sharma in conversation with Ajay Kanchan on the perils of Genetically Modified Food

Znet Article Ehrenreich: Not So Pretty in Pink

Znet Article, December, 04 2009 Barbara Ehrenreich
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The Uproar Over New Breast Cancer Screening Guidelines

Znet Article Olson: Frans de Waal’s Age of Empathy: A Review and Critique

Znet Article, October, 12 2009 Gary Olson
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Reviewing Frans de Waal’s The Age of Empathy: Nature’s Lessons For A Kinder Society

Commentary Shiva: A plate full of toxins

Commentary, September, 14 2009 Vandana2 Shiva
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In times when food is genetically manipulated and chemically contaminated, the metaphor "food for thought" can also stand for manipulated information and be toxic food for thought. Unfortunately, Dr M.S. Swaminathan’s GM: Food for Thought (Augus...

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