http://news.independent.co.uk/health/article2934325.ece

http://uk.biz.yahoo.com/05092007/399/watchdog-link-food-additives-hyperactivity.html

Jolly good - more research telling us what we already knew - that artificial food colourants are related to hyperactivity, attention deficit and unruly behaviour in children (not to mention adults!).

Why did we ever need such dangerous stuff in our food? The Soil Association banned them years ago.

Why do we need more research? Because no one will act without such 'evidence' being published in a scientific journal (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6634071.stm & http://www.foodcomm.org.uk/parentsjury/add_2.htm)

Well now it has been, so let's act!

Of course, the industry will re-act to oppose this.

While we're at it, no one's saying that here, at last, is valid research in human health, using HUMANS!

Is 'science' finally off its trolley? What sort of sense is this?

 http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/09/humananimal_hybrids_given_the.html

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has finally bowed to sense by allowing the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for use in scientific research. It marks a victory for science after an almost year-long battle, which began in December last year with the proposal to outlaw the creation of hybrids in a government white paper on fertility.

Yet another Pandora's Box is to be opened, all on the 'promise' by scientists that this will help find a cure for such diseases as Diabetes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. How can they promise that? Why does anyone believe them? So many promises made and so little delivered, over the decades. Not long ago, those scientists were avidly telling us that using primates in animal experiments would help them - what help has all that suffering been? The cancer researching community is forever telling us that they are making progress, yet still cancer is on the increase after the billions spent and the terrible toll in useless animal experimentation.

Human-animal hybrid embryos are supposed to be able to produce stem cells that are 98% human. Is that so impressive? The 2004 release of the chimpanzee draft genome sequence showed that human and chimp DNA are roughly 99% identical! Chimps don't look like us, they don't have the same diseases and they do not develop AIDS, yet they were used in AIDS experiments for years, totally without benefit. What am I missing, here?

Perhaps I should have headed this blog: "Science gone bananas"?

When it doesn't work, what will be the next suggestion? Where is this slippery slope taking us?

Just because it happened in a laboratory does not make it science!

Let's not even ask the moral questions this decision raises.