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  1. Canadian Down Syndrome Society
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  2. Encyclopedia of Bioethics
    Resource Type: Book
  3. Feral 'Roundup Ready' GM alfalfa goes wild in US West
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A USDA study shows that a GM alfalfa has gone wild in alfalfa-growing parts of the West. This may explain GMO contamination incidents that have cost US growers and exporters millions of dollars - and it exposes the failure of USDA's 'coexistence' policy for GMOs and traditional crops.
  4. Gene wars: the last-ditch battle over who owns the rights to our DNA
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A US biotech company is fighting to protect the patents it took out on a test for a cancer-causing gene. Scientists say a win for the firm would set back a growing ability to detect diseases.
  5. Global effects of GM crops questioned
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Twenty Indian, south-east Asian, African and Latin American food and conservation groups have published a damning study, saying that GM (genetically modified) crops have failed to increase yield, while requiring farmers to increase their dependence on herbicides and pesticides.
  6. Race, genetics and pseudoscience: an explainer
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2019
    A small number of researchers, mostly well outside of the scientific mainstream, have seized upon some of the new findings and methods in human genetics, and are part of a social-media cottage-industry that disseminates and amplifies low-quality or distorted science, sometimes in the form of scientific papers, sometimes as internet memes – under the guise of euphemisms such as 'race realism' or ‘human biodiversity'. Their arguments, which focus on racial groupings and often on the alleged genetically-based intelligence differences between them, have the semblance of science, with technical-seeming tables, graphs, and charts.
  7. Unravelling the DNA Myth
    The spurious foundation of genetic engineering

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    A survey of the implications of the collapse of molecular biology's "central dogma", that an organisms genome fully accounts for its characteristic assemblage of inherited traits. The author adresses how the biotechnology industry has been able to convince the world that genetic modifications are safe.


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