• Skip to main navigation (Press Enter).
  • Skip to main content (Press Enter).

Critical Scientists

  • Topics
    • Agroecology
    • Pesticides
    • Biotechnology
      • New Genetic Engineering Techniques
      • Gene Drives
      • Roundup Ready Crops
      • Bt crops
    • Climate Crisis
    • Critical Science
    • Technofixing
  • Projects
    • Current Projects
      • IntegraL Project
      • Critical Science Project
    • Past Projects
      • Evidence Review Group Agro-Gene Technology (2017-2021)
      • Gene Drives Project (2017-2019)
      • Risk Assessment of genetically engineered organisms in the EU and Switzerland (2016-2018)
  • Publications
    • Reports
    • Press Releases
    • Press & Media Coverage, citations
  • Events
  • Links
  • Home
  • About us
  • Become a Member
  • Support us
  • Contact
  • Newsletter
  • login

genedrive report

Gene Drives. A report on their science, applications, social aspects, ethics and regulations

Published by: CSS, ENSSER, VDW

 

genedrive report

Critique of IUCN report on synthetic biology

Published by: CSS, ENSSER, VDW

 

CSS Christmas meet and greet

Details
Events
18 December 2015

Friday, December 18
CHN P12, Universitätsstrasse 16, 8092 Zürich

15:00
Internal CSS meeting & Welcome by the Chair.

16:00
Presentation by CSS member Prof. Dr. Christopher Portier, Senior Collaborating Scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund and former member of numerous WHO/IARC scientific committees including the one that declared Glyphosate a 'probable carcinogen to humans'.

 “Now you see it, now you don’t: How EFSA and BfR reached a different decision than the IARC Working Group on glyphosate.”

17:00
Questions & Discussion, followed by a Christmas Apéro.

Background
In November, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) concluded that glyphosate is “unlikely to pose a carcinogenic hazard to humans”. 

The EFSA decision, based on the Renewal Assessment Report provided by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung BfR), ran counter to the finding earlier this year by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) working group, the cancer arm of the World Health Organization, that glyphosate is "probably carcinogenic to humans". The IARC review linked glyphosate to dose-related increases in malignant tumours at multiple anatomical sites in experimental animals and to an increased incidence of non-Hodgkin lymphoma in exposed humans.

Subsequently to the EFSA decision about 100 international scientists wrote an open letter to the European Health and Food Safety Commissioner, Vytenis Andriukaitis, strongly challenging the EFSA’s decision and the BfR report that it was based on. Corresponding author of the letter is Prof. Dr. Christopher Portier, who has contributed to the development of cancer risk assessment guidelines for national and international governments and agencies and was invited as specialist to the WHO IARC assessment of glyphosate.

On December 18, Dr. Portier discussed the major differences in the risks assessments conducted by the IARC working group, BfR and EFSA and the underlying regulations and mandates of the different evaluation bodies that ultimately led to the contradicting conclusions about the carcinogenicity of glyphosate. 



2015 Whistleblower Award

Details
Events
18 November 2015

Prof. Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini received Whistleblower Award 2015 for public disclosure of risks to life and health

On October 16, the Federation of German Scientists (VDW) and the German Section of the International Association of Lawyers Against Nuclear Arms (IALANA) present the 2015 Whistleblower Award equally to the molecular biologists Prof. Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini from the University of Caen (Normandy, France) and the former US drone pilot Brandon Bryant.

Whistleblower

In 2012, Prof. Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini and colleagues published a long-term feeding study with rats, showing toxic and carcinogenic effects of the glyphosate-based herbicide Roundup and genetically engineered Roundup tolerant maize, in the journal Food and Chemical Toxicology (Elsevier). Subsequently the publication was highly criticised and attacked and ultimately led Elsevier to withdraw the paper on grounds of "inconclusiveness". This meant that the data was no longer to be cited. According to the Committee on Publication Ethids (COPE) this procedure violates the international publishing ethics: Withdrawing papers and the data they contain is only justifiedin cases of severe offences such as demonstrable falsification or manipulation, "honest error" or plagiarsm. In 2014, another peer-reviewed journal, Environmental Sciences Europe (Springer) re-published the paper.

  • All Speeches, pictures and videos from the 2015 Whistleblower Award can be found here.
  • Laudatory speech for Prof. Dr. Gilles-Eric Séralini held by Christine von Weizsäcker (in German)
  • Dr. Otto Jäckel about the one-sided reporting by the media regarding Séralini (in German

 

Exhibition & Conference

Details
Events
16 November 2015

161115 Poster Grounded Vision

Exhibition:

Grounded Visions
Artistic Research into Environmental Issues

Co-curated by Boris Magrini and Jill Scott
Scientific advisor: Angelika Hilbeck

27. November 2015 - 23. March 2016
Monday to Friday, 11.00 - 19.00
ETH Zurich, Institute of Integrative Biology,
CHN Building, Green Floor, Universitätstrasse 16
8092 Zurich

Opening
Friday, 27. November 2015, 17:00

Conference:

Models of Diversity
Current Transdiscourses in Art,
Science and Social Issues

Day one - 19. February 2016
ETH Zurichm Institute of Integrative Biology,
CHN Building, Lecture Hall C14, Universitätstrasse 16,
8092 Zurich

Day two - 20. February 2016
Zurich University of the Arts, ZHdK Toni Areal,
Room: 5.K12, Pfingstweidstrasse 96
8005 Zurich


Book launch

Details
Events
16 November 2015

Zwischen Fairtrade und Profit
Wer sät, der erntet - oder doch nicht?

Zwischen Fairtrade und Profit

Authors: Fausta Borsani, Thomas Gröbly

Book presentation and Discussion

Monday, 23. November 2015, 19.30
Miller's, Seefeldstrasse 225, Zürich-Tiefenbrunnen


Post-Neonicotinoid-Symposium

Details
Events
15 November 2015

The European Network of Scientists for Social and Environmental Sustainability (ENSSER) & the Federation of German Scientists present the Post-Neonicotinoid-Symposium

The Symposium takes place on 1st of December at Festsaal der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin, Germany. 

You find the program and form of registration at the ENSSER website.


Neonicotinoids: DDT from the 21st century?

Details
Media
12 October 2015

Radio Interview with CSS member Prof. Edward A. D. Mitchell

03 October 2015
Duration: 21:19

Since the mid-1990s, agriculture has experienced a quiet revolution: neonicotinoids. Plants sprayed with neonicotinoids incorporate the toxic substance and become toxic to insects themselves.

Interview in French: http://www.rts.ch/audio/la-1ere/programmes/prise-de-terre/1423882-prise-de-terre.html


Page 8 of 9

  • Start
  • Prev
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • 8
  • 9
  • Next
  • End
 
You are here: Home

Impressum

© 2023 Critical Scientists

Abonnieren Sie unsere Newsletter

Veranstaltung Zeller Sept20

Hier wäre der Event Banner

Auf Grund von Corona sind die Plätze an unseren Veranstaltungen bechränkt. Mit Ihrer Anmeldung ermöglichen Sie einerseits das Contact-Tracing und uns und Ihnen einen reibungsloseren Ablauf am Abend selbst.

Zürich, 4. Sept. nur noch zwei Plätze, danach Warteliste (Stand 28. August 2020)
Jeden Samstag verschickt CSS einen von D. Langmeier kuratierten Newsfeed, in welchem die neusten Papers, Artikel, Videos etc. zum Themenbereich Landwirtschaft und Klimakrise knapp kommentiert präsentiert werden. Ebenso versendet CSS vierteljährlich einen Newsletter über seine Aktivitäten.
Datenschutz
Ihre Angaben werden nur zum Zwecke des Contract-Tracings und Event spezifisch (zB Versenden einer Bestätigungsnachricht) verwendet. Die Daten werden nach der Veranstaltung gemäss der gesetzlichen Frist von zwei Wochen gelöscht. Sollten Sie den Newsletter und/oder Newsfeed abonnieren, so speichern wir Ihre Daten hierfür auf unserem eigenen Server in der Schweiz. Wir verwenden ein selbstgehostetes Mailingprogramm, so dass Ihre Daten unsererseits nicht wie z.B. bei MailChimp an kommerzielle Firmen weitergegeben werden.

Membership application
CSS Logo would be shown here
Application CSS membership
Fields with a star * are mandatory. Although the additional information after the application button are optional we still would be very glad, if you could provide us with those informations. The infos will only be used internally and for the coordination amongst the members.
The different contributions are legally equal and bring no advantages or disadvantages for the member Participation in our association should not fail because of money. Contact us if the reduced fee is still too expensive for you.
Every Saturday, CSS sends out a newsfeed curated by D. Langmeier, in which the latest papers, articles, videos, etc. on the subject of agriculture and the climate crisis are presented with brief commentary. CSS also sends out a quarterly newsletter about its activities. However, most of the infos in the Newsletter you are going to get via our membership info mailing.
No confirmation message?
Please check at the top of this form, if you can see a green confirmation message.
If you neither get this message on your screen [nor one on your  provided e-mail,] then your browser settings are (probably) too strict/secure. Congratulations on that!
Consider lowering your settings for our webpage (temporarily) or use our pdf-form and send that to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or to our postal address. Bytheway: Although there is a signature field in the pdf-form, you don't have to print it out and scan it only for that purpose, because under Swiss law a contract about joining an association does not require a signature.