Innovation Review fails innovation test
Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has released the Review of Australia’s National Innovation System. Far from being a turning point for the future of innovation in Australia, as he has claimed it to be, it is more of the...Mounting evidence that carbon nanotubes may be the new asbestos – new FoEA review
Carbon nanotubes – thin, hollow cylinders made of carbon atoms – look very much like asbestos. In 2004, the United Kingdom’s Royal Society and risk specialists at the world’s second largest reinsurance agent Swiss Re warned that once in our lungs,...Public interest the big loser in Qld nano debate
Queensland Conservation Council (QCC) and Friends of the Earth (FoE) today warned that tomorrow’s Science in Parliament briefing on nanotechnology, organised by Queensland’s Chief Scientist, shows unacceptable pro-industry bias and ignores...Nanotechnology and the public interest: Repeating the mistakes of GM foods?
There is a widespread perception that the public backlash against Genetically Modified (GM) food “effectively stalled a new industry”. In this context, much has been made of the ‘lessons’ that governments and the burgeoning nanotechnology industry must learn from the...Crazytech
Stupid technologies we don't need.....
And that could destroy life on Earth.
And that could destroy life on Earth.