Issues

We currently focus on four main issues: disarmament and security, climate change and energy, questions of who controls science and technology and issues surrounding new and emerging technologies. You will also see that we work on some other issues too. You can explore these with the menu on the left of this page and with the search function. Material in this section includes all SGR's main outputs since 2005, with a selection of the more important material from before then.

Open Knowledge - A proposed adaptation of Open Science

Open Knowledge - A proposed adaptation of Open Science, focusing on guidelines for knowledge claims

(This is a slightly edited reprint of an article published by Alan Cottey in SGR Newsletter, No 26, February 2003, pp 17-18)
 

Why Missile Defence (MD) doesn't make sense and is a bad idea

SGR statement submitted as evidence to the House of Commons' Select Committee on Defence; 8 January 2003
 

Towards a Convention on Knowledge

ISIS-SGR-INES-TWN Discussion Paper

Mae-Wan Ho, Eva Novotny, Philip Webber and E E Daniels

Prepared for conference in November 2002, and subsequently modified
 

Human health concerns of GM agriculture

SGR Submission to the Scottish Parliamentary Health and Community Care Committee, November 2002
 

Possible military action by US/UK against Iraq: SGR statement

Statement issued on 2 October 2002
 

UK Energy Policy Review: SGR response (Sep 2002)

Response to 'Energy Policy: Key Issues for Consultation', September 2002
 

Aventis’ Action at the Chardon LL Hearing

Article by Eva Novotny from SGR Newsletter 25, July 2002
 

Reports for Chardon LL Hearing - Summary

Summary by Philip Webber, SGR, June 2002
 

Chardon Report I - Non-Suitability of Genetically Engineered Feed for Animals

Chardon Report I, May 2002. Chardon LL is intended to be fed, as a whole plant, to cattle. No experiments on the suitability of such a diet have been made. Approval of the application of Aventis for commercial growing of this maize in the United Kingdom was granted on the basis of two animal-feeding experiments, one on the feeding of maize kernels to chickens and the other on the feeding of the isolated GM protein to rats.

Chardon Report II - Hazards Arising From The Use Of The CaMV Promoter In Genetic Engineering

Report II, May 2002