There are two things. There is the chronology of new scientific results about a particular product, compound whatever after their market establishment and there is the particular company, the manufacturer. Means the product is first and tested according to CURRENT laws, scientific procedures etc. and then 'we' collect / get new facts / results during its marketing and practical usage. The 'pharmaceutical industry' or 'chemical industry' consist of different unique companies. Each one with their own way how to develop / test their products according to current laws. I work in a company where 'things' are ethically and morally in a reasonable frame otherwise I would not work there. I as a scientific employee can have influence on internal processes and can be a part of them. Our phytos do not belong to the products which have got attention by a negative long-term action such as pesticides and estrogenic compounds from plastics. Our products are phyto medics and if there should be issues the corresponding physician / pharmacist who has suggested to try them is obligated to make a contraindication at BfArM (Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices). Besides of that there is internal research on current products, it does not stop after their approval for marketing...our recent matter besides of others are pyrrolizidin alkaloides. What I finally want to express is that I myself as an employee of ONE pharmaceutical company can only take actions / have an influence there where I work. I cannot make own experiments with estrogenic compounds from plastics on the side and contribute to that research. The general statement : "In corporations scientists are "just" hired guns." is abstract and hence not right. But yes they can turn into a whistle-blower if own ethics and moral are sufficient to do so and if there is the need to. We have private companies and institutions such as BfArM and scientific Universities. The government has to spend more money on research projects for (independent) Universities. The institutions then have to realize new laws according to new results and force the private industry to comply. The structure is different in other countries, though. There is no universal way how in detail "Politics against markets" should be come true / be realized. This is my idea for a discussion.
Neo-liberal "deconstruction of state" is the same everywhere. To claim anything else would be ludicrous, it seems to me, so even though it takes many guises, the outcomes are similar. I would rather stand with those who are standing up to scientism, technocracy, AI idiocy which hurtles all it has into the completely unknown, without any critical thinking involved... Moreover, most fundamental research is done by the state, not private companies but in the neo-liberal setting the benefits are reaped by private companies - NOT OK!!! In other words, we must guard against all those worse possible outcomes, where we pay for the research and give up our rights in the process etc. etc. Just look at the bo&&ocks around smartphones, internet etc. etc.
I have made the experience that there are certain matters -limited matters- of which people are concerned / can be concerned. You can ask people about their major worries in life. Most are afraid of terrorist attacks. Some of alienating influences from more and more refugees...unemployment which had a previous importance went down due to strong economy. In this regard the term 'German Angst' has become popular. I think there is only a limited amount of what people can be worried about..the media are responsible what can take the first place. For whatever reason I think that I have recognized that nowadays there is almost no place for estrogenic compounds of plastics to be concerned of...as a self-protection / suppression. If you'd confront people with anything that is going wrong now they would turn away or shoot themselves because of depression or hopelessness. The same applies to anybody of us. Gorski, MJ, tiger, R29k...everybody who is contributing here with an open mind 'selects' from all 'concerns' some of which that become a personal matter. While to me terrorism or refugees are no matter of fear/concern, pollution is. So anybody of us have their own personal matters. It’s all about to recognize a matter one that is important enough to do something against it according to own possibilities. Not out of fear, but out of Reason. Anyway to assign a relative meaning to it. You can get crazy when you are overdoing it. But there are things which require personal action against it. Once a wise man said: " The earth is precious but also meaningless".. I hope you can read that phrase 'in between or even better from all extremes at once'... If you 'isolate' one you have focus on one side of the same medal only. Fear(of loss) or carelessness. Each alone is 'unreasonable'. Dunno if that is comprehensible.There is potential for misunderstanding. Reason includes the entire medal. Actually there has to be an working institution which has to care about such matters without to have to wait for human sensitization (fear/worries)...for a certain kind of pollution. The driving force shouldn't be fear, it should be Reason.
Can You Stop a Hurricane by Nuking It? ( Old but interesting!) A fully developed hurricane releases 50 or more terawatts of heat energy at any given moment, only about 1 percent of which is converted into wind. The heat release, Landsea wrote, "is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes." The entire human race in 2011 used about a third of the energy present in an average hurricane... the article
Maybe that's why people try to shoot at hurricane Irma? lol https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...ns-people-not-shoot-hurricane-irma/650909001/
Code-execution flaws threaten users of routers, Linux, and other OSes Google researchers have discovered at least three software bugs in a widely used software package that may allow hackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable devices running Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and macOS, as well as proprietary firmware. Dnsmasq, as the package is known, provides code that makes it easier for networked devices to communicate using the domain name system and the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol. It's included in Android, Ubuntu, and most other Linux distributions, and it can also run on a variety of other operating systems and in router firmware. A blog post published Monday by security researchers with Google said they recently found seven vulnerabilities in Dnsmasq, three of which were flaws that allowed the remote execution of malicious code. One of the code-execution flaws, indexed as CVE-2017-14493, is a "trivial-to-exploit, DHCP-based, stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability." Combined with a separate information leak bug Google researchers also discovered, attackers can bypass a key protection known as address space layout randomization, which is designed to prevent malicious payloads included in exploits from executing. As a result, exploits result in a simple crash, rather than a security-compromising hack. By chaining the code-execution and information leak exploits together, attackers can circumvent the defense to run any code of their choosing... more
Israel hacked Kaspersky, then tipped the NSA that its tools had been breached In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency. Israel notified the NSA, where alarmed officials immediately began a hunt for the breach, according to people familiar with the matter, who said an investigation by the agency revealed that the tools were in the possession of the Russian government. Israeli spies had found the hacking material on the network of Kaspersky Lab, the global anti-virus firm under a spotlight in the United States because of suspicions that its products facilitate Russian espionage....more Please don't forget norton
Windows 10's data collection allegedly violates Dutch privacy law Microsoft has already caught flak over claims that Windows 10's data collection is still overly aggressive, but it's now facing a direct legal challenge over how it handles your info. The Netherlands' Data Protection Authority has determined that Windows 10 violates the country's data protection law even after tweaks that came with the Creators Update. Allegedly, Microsoft doesn't "clearly inform" you of the type of data it's using and the reasons why that data is needed. Moreover, officials believe that Windows' default settings prevent you from offering true consent to data gathering... more
Engelmann has an app which stops over 80 instances of such data mining with a single click... Ashampoo freeware stops over 50 or 60, I think... And so on... Bleurgh!
wow see that very interesting news @ all https://phys.org/news/2017-10-teams-astronomers-evidence-baryonic.html
Gizmodo: Stunning AI Breakthrough Takes Us One Step Closer to the Singularity. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIw8r_vrzY
The Guardian: Discovery of 50km cave raises hopes for human colonisation of moon. https://www.theguardian.com/science...y-raises-hopes-for-human-colonisation-of-moon The Guardian: Warning of 'ecological Armageddon' after dramatic plunge in insect numbers. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwkrqpsDY
New York Post : 9.7 million-year-old teeth could ‘rewrite’ human history. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwuJWytTY
Gizmodo: Scientists Confirm Light's Crazy Quantum Mechanical Properties in Space. http://google.com/newsstand/s/CBIwl9qnuDY