Latest Scientific Ethics Headlines
The Goodman Affair: Monsanto Targets the Heart of Science
Tue, 21 May 2013 10:44:47 +1200 | Claire Robinson and Jonathan Latham
Richard Smith, former editor of the British Medical Journal, has jested that instead of scientific peer review, its rival The Lancet had a system of throwing a pile of papers down the stairs and publishing those that reached the bottom.More >>
Increase In Privacy Breaches Results In New Business Tool
Thu, 16 May 2013 12:03:23 +1200 | Educational Resources Ltd
The increasing number of privacy breaches has seen a Wellington company create a new interactive tool for businesses and organisations to teach their staff about their privacy obligations.More >>
Anger against the “deafness” of GE food regulators
Wed, 15 May 2013 14:51:17 +1200 | GE Free NZ
Anger against the “deafness” and “conflict of interest” of GE food regulators has prompted actions in cities around New Zealand and 276 cities around the World to highlight the dangers that the GE plants pose to all sectors of the population.More >>
NZ approves levy on kiwifruit exports in Psa shakeup
Tue, 14 May 2013 15:25:37 +1200 | BusinessDesk
May 14 (BusinessDesk) - The government has signed off a levy on kiwifruit exports to help cover the cost of managing the outbreak of the Psa vine bacteria, and will hand over management of the disease to industry. More >>
National Science Challenge winners underwhelm
Tue, 14 May 2013 08:40:47 +1200 | sticK
There’s only one word really to describe the winners of the National Science Challenge – ‘wow’ writ small. More >>
Registrations open for NetHui 2013
Thu, 9 May 2013 14:58:50 +1200 | InternetNZ
InternetNZ (Internet New Zealand Inc) is pleased to announce that registrations for NetHui 2013 – New Zealand’s largest and most-inclusive Internet-related conference – are now open. More >>
Science of Animal Testing Thrown into Doubt
Mon, 6 May 2013 13:48:58 +1200 | Pat Dutt and Jonathan Latham
New scientific research has cast grave doubt on the safety testing of hundreds of thousands of consumer products, food additives and industrial chemicals. Everyday products, from soft drinks and baby foods, to paints, gardening products, cosmetics ...More >>
Call for submissions on a new insecticide
Wed, 1 May 2013 13:58:49 +1200 | Environmental Protection Authority
The Environmental Protection Authority is calling for submissions on an application to import an insecticide used to eradicate ants. Ensystex NZ Ltd has applied to import the water-based insecticide Bithor, which contains bifenthrin and imidacloprid (a ...More >>
Poll shows Kiwis against party pill animal testing
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:12:28 +1200 | Green Party
The Government has New Zealanders’ backing to restrict the use of animal testing in new party pill regulation, the Green Party said today. More >>
Why Kiwis won't swallow party pill tests on animals
Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:11:12 +1200 | Horizon Research Limited
Why do 72.3% of adult New Zealanders want guidelines for or a ban on party pill testing? These comments represent the range of views expressed for and against... More >>
What if health statistics were not as they appeared?
Sun, 7 Apr 2013 12:08:07 +1200 | University of Canterbury
A University of Canterbury academic says health statistics may not always be what they seem. A British group identified fabrication, invention of data or cases and falsification or distortion of data as the most serious forms of scientific misconduct.More >>
Sustainable Farm Fund supports eucalypt forestry initiative
Fri, 5 Apr 2013 15:20:20 +1300 | New Zealand Dryland Forests Initiative
A national forestry initiative with roots in Marlborough has again been successful in its bid to the Sustainable Farming Fund. More >>
Interpreting science – understanding, advocacy and policy
Thu, 4 Apr 2013 10:03:29 +1300 | Prime Ministers Science Advisory Committee
Society uses science in many ways for its benefit – and sometimes individuals and groups within society can misuse science either accidentally or intentionally. However, the proper use of science and technology is essential to our economic, social, ...More >>
Q+A: Susan Wood interviews Mike Sullivan and Robert Cole
Sun, 31 Mar 2013 13:34:31 +1300 | TVNZ
Eugenics has always been concerned with the policy of reducing the prevalence and population of people deemed to be disadvantaged, so they’ve actually presented that argument in the paper.More >>
GE fungus leak breaks regulations
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:14:04 +1300 | Green Party
The unapproved release of a genetically engineered fungus is massive wake up call to our environmental regulators, the Green Party said today. More >>
EPA working with MPI to address GM breach at Lincoln Univers
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:02:24 +1300 | Environmental Protection Agency
The Environmental Protection Authority is working with the Ministry for Primary Industries and Lincoln University to determine how a genetically modified (GM) fungus came to be used outside approved containment facilities at Lincoln University. More >>
Lincoln University investigates potential GMO
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:56:01 +1300 | Lincoln University
Lincoln University is working closely with the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) to determine whether a fungus being researched at the university, believed to be ‘wild-type’, is a genetically modified organism (GMO) being used out of containment.More >>
MPI investigates GM breach at Lincoln University
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 15:43:43 +1300 | Ministry For Primary Industries
The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) is investigating how a genetically modified (GM) fungus came to be used outside approved containment facilities at Lincoln University’s campus.More >>
Online data-sharing - half don't know, one-third don't care
Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:39:12 +1300 | BusinessDesk
March 18 (BusinessDesk) - Around half of New Zealanders don't realise their personal information is being collected online for use by companies, governments and other organisations to market goods and services, while approximately a third of people ...More >>
A Tale of Two Commissions
Wed, 13 Mar 2013 12:19:14 +1300 | Robert Mann
Public inquiries into controversial technology have a mixed history in New Zealand. Having proposed in 1973 a public investigation of nuclear power, I was then sufficiently encouraged by the proceedings of the Royal Commission on Nuclear Power that in 1977 ...More >>
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