Category: Genetics
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Order 81, farming, GM...
Order 81 in Iraq changed farming for ever: Farmers are no longer allowed to re-use their seeds for the next crop and they have to use genetically modified seeds. (1, 2) The soil of one of the most ancient civilizations on Earth will never again be the same. Welcome to the new era of "civilization"... A, and…
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How educated are your... genes?!?
Genetic factors may exert a tiny influence on how much schooling a person ends up with, a new study suggests. [1] Sure. We have "discovered" all other stupid things that we can based on genes, why not this too? Science dogmatism has beginning to look more and more dangerous. And we though of Hitler as…
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Nowhere to hide...
Unapproved genetically engineered wheat has been found growing on a farm in Oregon. The Agriculture Department said the wheat was of the type developed by Monsanto to be resistant to the herbicide Roundup, also known as glyphosate. Such wheat was field-tested in 16 states, including Oregon, from 1998 through 2005, but Monsanto dropped the project…
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Evil Sweden strikes back... (or: How to sterilize "inferior" people)
Sweden had (from 1920s to 1970s) the best eugenics program in the world (i.e. compulsory sterilization of metally diseased, inferior and/ or "impure" citizens et cetera). They even "taught" Hitler, who actually asked for a copy of their eugenics law for his Reich... Even though many other states had similar eugenica programs (including USA, Switzerland,…
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