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- Royal Society Tells Exxon: Stop Funding Climate Change Denial
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Britain's leading scientists have challenged the US oil company ExxonMobil to stop funding groups that attempt to undermine the scientific consensus on climate change. In an unprecedented step, the Royal Society, Britain's premier scientific academy, has written to the oil giant to demand that the company withdraws support for dozens of groups that have "misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence". The scientists also strongly criticise the company's public statements on global warming, which they describe as "inaccurate and misleading". (David Adam, Guardian, 20 September 2006)
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0920-04.htm
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- 'Put local needs before Nobel prizes' says top engineer
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David Dickson 12 June 2003 Source: SciDev.Net One of Britain's leading engineering researchers has urged scientists in developing countries to stop being driven by the need for recognition by Nobel Prizes, and to start focusing their efforts on less glamorous but crucial research intended to address domestic problems.
http://www.scidev.net/News/index.cfm?fuseaction=readNews&itemid=856&language=1
(Added: Wed Jun 18 2003 Modified: Wed Jan 17 2007 Hits: 374)
- Dangerous medicines: Unproven AIDS cures and counterfeit antiretroviral drugs
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Increasing access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a critical goal endorsed by the United Nations and all of its member states. At the same time, anecdotal accounts suggest that the promotion of unproven AIDS 'cures' and remedies are widespread, and in the case of The Gambia, Iran and South Africa, have been promoted by governments directly. Although a range of legislative and regulatory measures have been adopted by some governments, and technical assistance has been provided by international agencies to address counterfeit medicines generally, the threat of counterfeit antiretroviral drugs is not being addressed.(Joseph J Amon, 27 February 2008)
http://www.globalizationandhealth.com/content/pdf/1744-8603-4-5.pdf
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- Institute of Science and Society
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The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1999 by Mae-Wan Ho and Peter Saunders to work for social responsibility and sustainable approaches in science. A major part of our work is to promote critical public understanding of science and to engage both scientists and the public in open debate and discussion.
(Added: Fri Jan 09 2004 Modified: Tue Dec 06 2005 Hits: 178)
- Inventing a Better Future: A Strategy for Building Worldwide Capacities in Science and Technology (pdf)
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InterAcademy Council. In a world moving rapidly toward the knowledge-based economies of the 21st century, capacity building in science and technology (S&T) is necessary everywhere. But the need is greatest for the developing countries. INVENTING A BETTER FUTURE is a call for global movement to build science and technology capacities in all nations. It addresses the general public and specifically decisionmakers-in national and local governments, international intergovernmental organizations, the research communities, national academies, S&T organizations, foundations, the private sector, nongovernmental organizations, and the media. The purpose of the report is to help mobilize concern among all these parties and to trigger actions, recommending ways in which interactions among them could be usefully pursued. The growing sense of cooperation among scientific and technological communities of different countries and regions is highlighted as especially important in making these ideas and paths more practical now than ever before.
(Added: Fri Mar 12 2004 Modified: Thu Oct 05 2006 Hits: 171)
- RealClimate
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RealClimate is a commentary site on climate science by working climate scientists for the interested public and journalists. We aim to provide a quick response to developing stories and provide the context sometimes missing in mainstream commentary. The discussion here is restricted to scientific topics and will not get involved in any political or economic implications of the science.
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- Southern Lights: Celebrating the scientific achievements of the developing world
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IDRC 1995, by David Spurgeon. Manuel Patarroyo, a biochemist from Colombia, has developed the world's first safe and effective malaria vaccine. Ironically, it took him only 4 years to make his discovery, but 6 years to convince the world that the vaccine worked. Is this a case of intellectual racism? Are discoveries by Third World scientists properly recognized? Southern Lights pays tribute to the many scientific and technological achievements of scientists from the developing world - achievements that have not been sufficiently recognized in the North. Using concrete examples, author David Spurgeon illustrates the important role that science from the developing world and effective collaboration between North and South can play in solving the major global problems of today.
http://archive.idrc.ca/library/document/101742/
(Added: Wed Jun 30 2004 Modified: Tue Dec 06 2005 Hits: 146)
- Tamil Science and Technology Website
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The aim of the website is to provide information on science, electrical and electronics engineering and technology in the Tamil language which is spoken in India, Sri Lanka, Malysia and Singapore.
(Added: Fri Apr 16 2004 Modified: Tue Dec 06 2005 Hits: 145)
- The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
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The Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is an international autonomous scientific organization dedicated to promoting scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable development in the South. TWAS was founded in Trieste, Italy, in 1983 by a group of distinguished scientists from the South under the leadership of Nobel laureate Abdus Salam of Pakistan, and officially launched by the then-secretary general of the United Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar, in 1985. The Academy's operational expenses are largely covered by generous contributions from the Italian government. Since 1986 TWAS has supported scientific research in 100 countries in the South through a variety of programmes. More than 2,000 eminent scientists world-wide, including TWAS members, peer review proposals freeof- charge for research grants, fellowships and awards that are submitted to the Academy by scientists and institutions from developing countries.
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- Turning the brain drain from threat to opportunity
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Poor facilities and job prospects mean that in too many developing countries a science graduate's strongest hope of building a research career is to seek a position in a North American or European university. It would be catastrophic if such experiences led developing countries to conclude that investing in training skilled professionals in general - and scientists, engineers and technicians in particular - was a waste of money (Scidevnet, 2 November 2007).
http://www.scidev.net/Editorials/index.cfm?fuseaction=readEditorials&itemid=231&language=1
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- Using tradition and science to predict rain
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DEEP in the countryside, where newspapers do not reach and met reports are of no consequence, farmers still depend upon the age-old folk wisdom passed over by successive generations in predicting the weather. The indicators would baffle scientific reasoning. These could range from fireflies appearing in the night forest, sparrows bathing in the dust and ants carrying pupae to goats creating a din and refusing food to the flowering of neem and babul trees-all suggesting impending rains. "All across timeless India, those living off the land are turning to ancient portents rather than relying on a government forecasting machinery that invariably fails them," observes Srikant Jha of Patna's College of Agriculture. "The Cray supercomputers with meteorologists cannot match their accuracy."
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2003/20030706/spectrum/main4.htm
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