Put this one in the category of “what could possibly go wrong?” The National Institutes of Health is lifting a ban on funding experiments that deliberately make germs more dangerous, albeit subject to pre-approval by a scientific panel using a risk-benefit analysis. The U.S. government imposed a funding moratorium on such research in October 2104. At […]
Articles that appeared concerning the “mad cow” issue, made it very clear that the crux of the problem is money, not the health of the people. Ann Veneman, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture stated, “that stringent changes would be imminent to protect the consumer”. Despite the fact that what Veneman is proposing […]