7 April 2021 — US Right to Know
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Day: April 7, 2021
Letter to the BMJ: Do doctors have to have the covid-19 vaccine?
29 March 2021 — British Medical Journal
BMJ 2021; 372 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n810 (Published 29 March 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;372:n810
Dear Editor
I have had more vaccines in my life than most people and come from a place of significant personal and professional experience in relation to this pandemic, having managed a service during the first 2 waves and all the contingencies that go with that.
The iWars Survey: Mapping the IT sector’s involvement in developing autonomous weapons
7 April 2021 — Drone Wars
A new survey by Drone Wars has begun the process of mapping the involvement of information technology corporations in military artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics programmes, an area of rapidly increasing focus for the military. ‘Global Britain in a Competitive Age’, the recently published integrated review of security, defence, development, and foreign policy, highlighted the key roles that new military technologies will play in the government’s vision for the future of the armed forces and aspirations for the UK to become a “science superpower”.
Make your town or city pesticide-free!
7 April 2021 — Pesticide Action Network
As we head into spring, you will probably start to spot the tell-tale signs that pesticides have been used in your town or city, such as yellowing strips of grass or dead, brown plants along the edges of pavements. Across most of the UK, pesticides are still being sprayed in parks, playgrounds, pavements, schools and other public spaces. Many of these pesticides have been linked to serious health problems and contribute to biodiversity decline.
2021 is our chance to change this!
London: Join our fight for a Mayor for renters
6 April 2021 — Origin: Generation Rent
| We need a London Mayor that will tackle the renting crisis and ensure renters have access to safe, secure and genuinely affordable homes.
Will you join us in our call for a London Mayor for Renters? Ask the candidates if they will adopt Generation Rent’s policies to fix London’s housing crisis here. |
Why new genetic techniques need to be stringently regulated – study
6 April 2021 — GMWatch
Terms such as “like nature”, “precise”, and “no foreign genes” are being wrongly applied to new GM techniques
1. Why new genetic techniques need to be stringently regulated – comment on new study
2. Differentiated impacts of human interventions on nature: Scaling the conversation on regulation of gene technologies – new study abstract
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