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Why human genome project is a real revolution in biology and genetics
by Irwin D. Bross, PhD text
Recap on "mad" cows and the world at large by Bina Robinson text
Corporate takeover of science text
The creation of a killer virus
Students butcher dogs in surgical training
Future dubious for UK pig organ transplants
Super aspirin a killer?
ON THE DRUG SCENE
20 deaths among people taking new flu drugs
Tamiflu recommended as preventative by FDA
Promising drug for C. myelogenous leukemia
Public Citizen sues FDA to recall Lotronex
Insurance companies promote Premarin
Off-label drug use can be dangerous
RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS
Hunting can be hard on hunters as well as deer
Cigarettes linked to colorectal cancer
Alzheimer's linked to childhood IQ at age eleven
Tooth fairy reveals radiation exposure
Huge New York City canceer study
Huntingdon Life Sciences under assault by determined activists
Corporate takeover of science
MAILBAG
Constance Young New York NY
Marguerite Wegner, Australia
Shanie Aero Mesa AZ
Lee Davis Maple Ridge BC
John Riker, DC New York NY
BOOK REVIEW
J R Hyland: God's Covenant with Animals Lantern Books 2000
reviewed by Rhona Zaid, PhD text
Vivisection or Science ? An investigation into Testing Drugs and Safeguarding Health by Professor Pietro Croce reviewed in British Medical Journal "In this disturbing and thought-provoking book, Professor Pietro, an Italian Scientist, who used to experiment on animals himself, explains why he now believes this is unethical. Surprisingly, this view is not based on his love for animals, but rather his 'concern for the health of other human beings.'" (To order see book page
POPS (persistent organic pollutants) to be banned or phased out)
Soybeans to replace cows' blood in plywood glue
FDA allows health claim for soy protein
Biotech industery plans three new labs in UK
Lost letter from Irish poet Liam Brophy:
Letter from Liam Brophy
July 4, 1988
We have just been reminded by some American friends here that this is your Big Day! I am also reminded to thank you for the copies of CIVITAS which keep coming, with all their concentrated load of info.
Our distinguished mutual friend Hans Ruesch is under such concentrated attack that he reminds me of those pictures of St. Sebastian, showing him bound to a post while his enemies used his naked body for bow-and-arrow target practice. You might consider the following lines on the theme worth publishing:
THE MODERN SAINT SEBASTIAN
How like Sebastian he stands
Our staunch and targeted Hans
While men of comprehension dim
Shoot lancet-keen arrows at him,
Singly or in hysteric bands.
His great crime's not the eloquent
Plea for the slaughtered innocent,
But that he draws out the real aim
Of why they cut and burn and maim,
Lays bare their live emolument.
Liam Brophy
Winter 2000-01 issue subsequent issue home
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