US Congress replies on NSF scrutiny

the impact of aipac on us congress

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GM crops under new US scrutiny

Genetically modified (GM) crops have been at the center of a storm of protests in Europe, which has begun to move into the United States. US surveys show increasing consumer concern about food biotechnology and some major food companies have announced decisions to purchase only non-bioengineered products. Recently, the finding of StarLink® corn in taco shells has raised harsh criticisms about t...

NSF and Its Critics in Congress: New Pressure on Peer Review.

Scrutiny pressure on funding biases

As pressure increasingly builds on public and charitable sources of research funding, there is growing concern that money from the pharmaceutical industry may come with pitfalls for unwary researchers, Britain's science academy, the Royal Society, concluded last month. Royal Society members, who held their annual alumni meeting, fear that the government's drive to increase university-industry c...

Ricochets & Replies

Disturbingly, the strategy laid out in Dr. B. T. Cesul’s article “A Global Space Control Strategy” (November–December 2014) essentially is a throwback to the “space dominance” policies and ambitions set out by the administration of President George W. Bush, following from the 2001 Rumsfeld Space Commission report. Furthermore, the strategy it espouses is just as unobtainable and undesirable now...