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.

Career choice, ethics and animal experimentation

SGR ethical careers briefing by Gill Langley; March 2003

This briefing provides background insight into the issues surrounding the use of animals in scientific experiments and the underlying factors that have given rise to the current legislative and cultural setting. Readers will gain greater awareness of how their choice of career makes a positive or negative impact on the welfare of laboratory animals as well as some pointers to alternative career routes.
 

Why the war on Iraq is a warning for the planet

Short report summarising the arguments against the War on Iraq.

 

Philip Webber and Vanessa Spedding

27 March 2003

 

 

Scientists Condemn US-UK March to War on Iraq

SGR Statement, 14 March 2003
 

Farm-scale Trials of GM Oilseed Rape at Munlochy, Scotland: SGR Response

Text of Submission to the Scottish Parliament Re:Farm-scale Trials of Genetically Modified (GM) Oilseed Rape at Munlochy, Scotland; 3 March 2003
 

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