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Czech scientists demand rational regulation
The Czech Republic became a Member State of the European Union in 2004,
and as a consequence, must "harmonize" its laws and policies with those
of the EU. That means, of course, crushing agricultural biotechnology
out of existence and hounding researchers mercilessly. A new
publication by the Biology
Center of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic proves that
Czech scientists aren't feeling very harmonious with the neo-Medieval
regime.
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EFSA's conflict of interest
Dr. Joachim Schiemann has been forced out
of his position on the GMO Panel of the European Food Safety Authority
(EFSA),
amid allegations of a "conflict of interest". He's been a long-standing
target of European Greens and their activist cohorts, due to his broad
engagement with those involved in researching and regulating GM crops.
The last straw: his appointment as head of the Institute for
Biosafety of Genetically Modified Plants at the Julius Kühn Institute
in Quedlinburg -- where activists recently destroyed 270 GM apple
trees, and with them, a decade of research. The EFSA obviously has a
conflict of interest--seeking scientific credibility, while
rejecting scientific expertise to appease the unappeasable
opponents of biotech.
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