If they knew how to eat them in the industrial slums of Liverpool and Manchester in the 19th century, they would have passed out. And Engels wouldn’t have written that …
Flying syringes
Mosquitoes are among the favorite “toys” of biotechnologists. This means that they have become the subject of organized mutations so that… One version was the creation of mosquitoes that cannot …
The EU’s decision: long live the “liberation” of GMOs in human organisms!
It is an issue that we have highlighted (as much as we can) and not just once: the “processes” and decisions at the European Union level during the summer of …
Embryos from nothing?
The sensational reproduction of the announcement caused quite a shock (though one that is quickly forgotten). Israeli geneticists from the Weizmann Institute announced that they managed to create “something” that …
What does Marx say about gain-of-function research?
The title is provocative… Marx could not have known anything about gain-of-function research! He could not have known (or even imagined) the specific relationships between militarism, capitalist technology, and social …
No hell for experts
What are cells? “Tiny computers” says the dominant biotech dogma. Therefore, shouldn’t the “success” of a group of researchers from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute in finding (as they claim) …
Humans, bats, and the enemy of nature (the security complex knows biology… Do we?)
The recent (in September) disclosure, via a reliable insider / whistleblower, that the CIA bribed members of a special committee it had hired (to investigate the origin of the legendary …
Mechanical successes
It’s not only brain-implanted electronics like Neuralink that shape a nightmarish or hopeful (depending on one’s taste or interests) near future for the organic fusion of the living with the …
The hidden side of the ecological transition
Machines that perform calculations with complex algorithms, based on large amounts of data and extract smart-looking answers, are not only fed by the fragmented knowledge of their creators, but also …
What would Vladimir say?
They are viruses. They are called (and are) bacteriophages: they feed exclusively on bacteria. Given that many infections (in the human body), some particularly serious, are caused by bacteria, bacteriophages …
Big Bang: the farewell of a theory; (how sacred is science?)
The Big Bang theory will soon close a century of life – perhaps its obituary will coincide with the moment it retires into the history of human scientific conceptions. Its …
The empire of illusions
Is it perhaps the “dark side” of constantly evolving digital representation techniques, which will be controlled by some untouchable “public authorities”? Or is it simply a constituent, structural element of …