The Propaganda Campaign in Support of Genetically Modified Crops

"Paterson has a history of engaging in the type of emotional blackmail and smearing of critics that comes second nature to the pro-GMO lobby. Anyone (usually portrayed as affluent Westerners – which is not true, given many of the critics are not ‘Western’, affluent or reside in ‘developed’ countries) who opposes GM crops or food is painted as an enemy of the poor because they take food from their bellies. Paterson is using a rhetorical device deliberately designed to mislead and stir up emotion. His tactics are based on spurious claims about the efficacy of GMO technology and are intended to divert attention away from the true nature and causes of hunger and food poverty."

Left Panics over Peer-Reviewed Climate Paper’s Threat to Global Warming Alarmism

"Greenpeace denies the settled science that bad forecasts mean incorrect theories. Don’t let them change the subject. This is not about some false accusation of conflict of interest. This is about bad science passing for good because it’s politically expedient."

Will first contact with aliens spell the end of civilisation?

"The Earth Speaks project involved surveying 2,000 people from 70 countries around the world. It was carried out by scientists who have been listening out for radio signals from extraterrestrials since 1960, so far without success, to see what people would say to ET.

Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) scientist Dr Doug Vakoch said: 'One of the striking commonalities - men and women, young and old - was a message: 'Please help.'

'A sense that we are in very precarious time in our development as a civilisation. Our technologies are greater than our social stability.'"

The Universal Feeling in All Human Communication Revealed by Massive Study

“When experienced in isolation and weighted properly according to use, words, which are the atoms of human language, present an emotional spectrum with a universal, self-similar positive bias."

Hundreds of Jewish tombs defaced in France

"Five teens have been questioned after hundreds of tombs in a Jewish cemetery were vandalized in eastern France. The incident follows a rise in the number of attacks against European Jews, the most recent being Sunday morning’s shooting in Copenhagen."

"A 73 year old man was caught Monday trying to tag the word 'Jew' on vehicles in the upmarket 16th district of Paris. The man and his wife, who is Jewish, had previously filed complaints in July and August when anti-semitic graffiti was 'discovered in their building.'"

MI5 accused of complicity in historical NI child sex abuse

“The allegations could scarcely be more serious – that MI5 used a pedophile ring at the boys' home for its own intelligence-gathering purposes and then blocked police investigations which could have ended the abuse years before it was finally stopped."

What is this dog thinking? Scientists now have some fascinating answers

"Having lived alongside us for thousands of years, they have evolved not only an inbuilt affection for mankind but also a set of skills for becoming our 'best friends' – even though they have little understanding of how we feel about them."