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Written by: Amardeo Sarma

We thank Dr Benedikt Matenaer and everyone who donated to our school project in Uganda through him.

This will enable us to invest even more in the Kasese Humanist School. We will report on this here!

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The Giordano Bruno Foundation reports on its collaboration with Scientific Temperon on its website. The Humanist Press Service (hpd) also reports on the support by the Giordano Bruno Foundation here.

The first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru, is quoted as saying that the political programme 1946 was already at the centre of his political programme: "The scientific temper points out the way along which man should travel. It is the temper of a free man. We live in a scientific age, so we are told, but there is little evidence of this temper in the people anywhere or even their leaders. [..] What we need is the scientific approach, the adventurous and yet critical temper of science, the search for truth and new knowledge, the refusal to accept anything without testing and trial, the capacity to change previous conclusions in the face of new evidence, the reliance on observed fact and not on pre-conceived theory, the hard discipline of the mind—all this is necessary, not merely for the application of science but for life itself and the solution of its many problems."

Scientific Temper is grateful for the support and will continue to place a particular focus on global education with this cooperation, which is in line with the motto "Learning how to think, not what to think" as the best long-term investment in the future.

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Fellows of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry condemn the Clinical Report (12/3/23) of the prestigious journal Pediatrics, published by the American Academy of Pediatrics, for strongly implying that parents should not feed their children foods containing ingredients from genetically engineered (GE) crops.

The conclusions of the clinical report are not supported by evidence. On the contrary, 30 years of intensive research provide no legitimate evidence of undue risk from ingredients derived from GM crops. After nearly half a century of use, thousands of independent studies, and regulatory evaluation by dozens of countries (including re-approval by the EU in December 2023), there is no direct evidence that glyphosate is carcinogenic at dietary or occupational exposure levels. 

CSI: "Unjustified vilification of a technology under the authority of a trusted, major journal breaks consumer trust and ultimately harms progress in sustainable food production, especially for the food insecure. Pediatrics must correct this record".

Read the full article here.