Now on YouTube, the first Bold Scientists video interview. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrErg0E56LE&feature=youtu.be.
Category Archives: Current affairs
CSEC: We pay for it. It spies on us.
“An ultra-secretive government agency is collecting hugely revealing information on thousands of law-abiding Canadians.”
Communications Security Establishment Canada. We pay for it, they spy on us. That’s the deal. They spy on all our communications, all the time: phone, email and internet, contacts, conversations, relationships, religious and political affiliations, medical records, financial transactions….
OpenMedia.ca is on the case. But they can’t do it alone. The Canadian government needs to hear a very loud NO from everyone of us who cares.
David Lyon, world authority on surveillance and social control: “Indifference is appropriate only for those who think that efficiency, convenience and speed qualify as values to be placed over openness, fairness, and the accountability of those whose task it is to process personal data.”
Add your voice here: https://openmedia.ca/CSECisWatching?src=156782.
More on David Lyon, our very Transparent Lives and ‘social sorting’ in Bold Scientists. Read an excerpt here.
And pass it on, far and wide.
Whole food for free-range minds
Available September 4, 2014
Critical comment:
“A gripping tale of heroic scientists working in the public interest despite powerful
opposition. At once, both tremendously hopeful and profoundly disturbing. The world
needs more bold authors like Michael Riordon.”
Thomas Duck, Associate Professor, Department of Physics and Atmospheric Science,Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
“Silence is consent, my fellow scientists. Riordon’s profiles in courage encourage us to take our data and our voices into the gladiator’s arena and engage in the great moral and political battles of our time. As Bold Scientists so clearly shows, it’s where we belong.”
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D., author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment; co-founder, Concerned Health Professionals of New York
The menu/chapters:
When the river roared. First Nations, a long view.
Digging thistles. An experimental post-oil farm.
A dialogue with the world. Biology, from the ground up.
Blood on my hands. Life and death in the garden.
Stolen children. In El Salvador, war, genes and human rights.
The Cloud. Watching Big Brother.
ODD. Psychology and power
Awe. The wisdom of a spider web.
Pesky data. Under lakes, dark truths.
The unsolved problem. Fracking: homeland insecurity.
When the lights go out. Awakening in an ice storm.
No time for cowardice. An elemental fight for science and democracy.
Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science
Now:
- Pre-order it from independent bookstores and Chapters/Indigo stores across Canada.
After September 4th:
- Purchase or order Bold Scientists from local retailers or libraries across Canada.
- Purchase it directly from the publisher, Between the Lines, online (within Canada) at http://btlbooks.com/book/bold-scientists, or by phone toll-free at 1-800-718-7201.
- Purchase online through Amazon.
- Internationally, the book will also be available via Central Books Ltd: orders@centralbooks.com / centralbooks.com. (Tel) +44 20 8986 4854.
Unspun science for dangerous times
Michael Riordon 