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Pesticide Activism: Fifty Years of Panic and Propaganda

This report details the long history of toxic journalism, the new and historical facts and science the media ignore in propping up “the grand narrative”[1], and why this problem is likely to get worse. That is why this issue needs to be addressed as society grapples with the growing human health and welfare challenges in a more crowded and resource-limited world of the 21st century. Continue reading

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GLOBAL WARMING EVERY 1,500 YEARS–WHAT IT MEANS FOR ENGINEERING, BY: DENNIS T. AVERY

Hysteria over global warming has gripped the affluent countries of the world. -Climate modelers claim the earth’s temperature could be boosted an astounding 11 degrees C by the additional CO2 being released into the atmosphere as humans burn fossil fuels. … Continue reading

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Hundreds More Scientists Have Found the 1,500-Year Climate Cycle

Hudson Institute, Washington, D.C., March 3, 2008:  The following list includes more than 400 additional qualified scientists, with their home institutions, and the peer-reviewed studies they have published in professional journals, which reveal evidence of the moderate 1,500-year Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. … Continue reading

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Great Rivers White Paper

Download Report (PDF) The great river valleys have always been the key cradles of civilization, and the great river valleys may always be at the heart of human societies. The great river valleys had the world’s richest hunting grounds. They … Continue reading

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Bjorn Lomborg Responds to Scientific American Critics

Download PDF As I write these words Scientific American has as yet not given me a chance to put my side of the argument before their readers. The four critiques and accompanying editorial will be the only statement that readers … Continue reading

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Rachel Carson Syndrome: Jumping to Pesticide Conclusions in the Global Frog Crisis

Download PDF A devastating and detailed review of four highly publicized case studies showing the deep anti-pesticide bias of ecologists. The report asks why ecologists continually chase chemical phantoms despite the scientific evidence and when ecology will become a science … Continue reading

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Response to PimentelResponse to Pimentel response which was not published in Science

Dr. David Pimentel’s response to our letter in Science(2005, vol. 307:1410-1411) misconstrues some of our points and is simply wrong in other areas. First, Pimentel incorrectly claims that we equated herbicide tolerant crops (HT) with no-till cultivation systems. We clearly … Continue reading

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Meeting The Needs Of A Hungrey World—What Role Does Biotechnology Play?

Alex Avery The short and the sweet of it is that the world is in the midst of the largest increase in global food demand in human history. At least a doubling of food demand will unfold in the next … Continue reading

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Should Lincolnshire Be Farmed?

Dennis Avery The short answer to the title question is: Yes, Britain’s farmland—including Lincolnshire—should be farmed. Indeed, it must be farmed, to: Help save the world’s remaining wildlands and wild species, especially those in the tropics, from being plowed for … Continue reading

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It’s Time To Tell The World How High-Yield Farming Saves Nature

Presentation in Winnipeg to the Canadain Association of Agri-Retailers Dennis Avery . . . farms obliterate empty places, ploughed fields vanquish forests, herds drive out wild beasts. . . and there are such great cities where formerly hardly a hut … Continue reading

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