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[Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>]

The Institute of Science In Society
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/index.php]
About ISIS
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/about.php
The Institute of Science in Society (ISIS) was co-founded in 1999 by
scientists Mae-Wan Ho and Peter Saunders to provide critical yet accessible
and reliable information to the public and policy makers.

ISIS aims to reclaim science for the public good; to promote a
contemporary, holistic science of the organism and sustainable systems; and
influence social and policy changes towards a sustainable, equitable world.
ISIS is a partner organisation of the Third World Network based in Penang,
Malaysia, and works informally with many scientists who are members of ISIS
or of the Independent Science Panel that ISIS initiated (see below).

ISIS works through lively reports posted on its popular website
www.i-sis.org.uk, archived by the British Library since 2009 as part of
UK’s national documentary heritage. The reports are circulated to a large
e-mail list that includes all sectors of civil society worldwide, from
small farmers in India to policy-makers in the United Nations. We publish
an art/science, trend-setting quarterly magazine *Science in Society,* and
topical in-depth, influential, and timely reports (see below) as well as
monographs including *Genetic Engineering Dream or Nightmare* (1998, 1999,
2000, 2007), *Living with the Fluid Genome* (2003), *Unravelling AIDS*
(2005), *The Rainbow and the Worm, the Physics of Organisms*, 3rd edition
(2008*); Living Rainbow H2O* (2012).

ISIS also initiates major campaigns from time to time:

*World Scientists Open Letter*, February 1999, calling for a moratorium on
genetically modified (GM) organisms, ban on patents on life, and support
for sustainable agriculture; eventually signed by 828 scientists from 84
countries http://www.i-sis.org.uk/list.php

*Independent Science Panel*, constituted May 2003, consists of dozens of
scientists from many disciplines. Its report, *The Case for a GM-Free
Sustainable World*, calling for a ban on GM crops and a comprehensive shift
to sustainable agriculture was presented in the UK Parliament and European
Parliament, circulated worldwide, and translated into 5 or more languages.

*Sustainable World Global Initiative*, launched April 2005,
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/SustainableWorldInitiativeF.php, held its first
international conference 14/15 July 2005 in UK Parliament, followed by a
weekend workshop 21 January 2006, out of which came a proposal for an
innovative food and energy self-sufficient ‘Dream Farm 2’ for
demonstration/education/research purposes. Its first report, *Which
Energies?,* appeared in 2006, followed by a second definitive report, *Food
Futures Now *(2008) showing how organic agriculture and localized food and
energy systems can provide food and energy security and free us from fossil
fuels. The third and final report, Green Energies - 100% Renewable by 2050
<http://www.i-sis.org.uk/GreenEnergies.php> (2009) was also launched in UK
Parliament November 2009, and struck a chord among politicians and opinion
formers. It marks the turning point in the world’s commitment to green
renewable energies.

*Reclaiming Beauty and Truth in Science and Art*, was launched in a unique
art/science event 26-27 March 2011, when a wholefoods factory was
transformed overnight into an art gallery and music/lecture hall around the
theme of ‘quantum jazz’, the sublime aesthetics of quantum coherence in
living systems and the living universe
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Avant_Garde_ArtScience_Event.php.  The event was
marked by a commemorative volume of essays and artworks, *Celebrating ISIS*,
*Quantum Jazz Biology *Medicine*Art*, a *Quantum Jazz Art* DVD of artworks
with a special selection of music, plus four DVDs of performances and
interviews at the actual event itself. Our second act was an extended
art/science/music festival, Colours of Water, 12-28 March 2013, a
resounding success featuring an amazing cast of scientists, artists,
musician, and other social leaders from around the world, all inspired by
water and aiming to raise awareness on sustainable water use and
conservation (http://www.i-sis.org.uk/coloursofwater/).
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Glyphosate is Carcinogenic
<http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_is_Carcinogenic.php>
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/Glyphosate_is_Carcinogenic.php
The WHO expert panel reclassified glyphosate as ‘probably carcinogenic’
more than 40 years after it  was brought to market, but the range of
available evidence is sufficient to classify it definitely carcinogenic.
Glyphosate’s carcinogenic potential has been known to Monsanto and the US
EPA from long term animal experiments since the early 1980s but repeatedly
dismissed. This has resulted in two decades of people and planet being
poisoned by glyphosate herbicides on a misclassification of
‘noncarcinogenic’ that has allowed the manufacturer to claim it is ‘safe’
and perpetrating many other falsehoods to promote its ubiquitous and
liberal use
*Dr Mae-Wan Ho and Prof Peter T. Saunders, 9th September 2015*