The Emerging Science and Bioethics Advisory Committee (ESBAC) was the main UK advisory body on emerging healthcare scientific developments and their ethical, legal, social and economic implications. It was sponsored by the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for the Department of Health (DH), England. Its membership included representation from all UK Health Departments for whom ESBAC also provided advice. ESBAC also provided a forum to consider and develop coordinated advice across the wider science, health and academic communities to help set priorities in response to new developments.
The paper explores the origins of ASLIB, and its roots in the “science lobby” of the time; it then traces the development of ASLIB as both a “national intelligence service” for science, commerce and industry, and as a quasi-professional association with international significance. It concludes that the first of these two functions was the Association's fundamental raison d'être.
David Willetts guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 1 May 2012 Wikipedia founder to help in government's research scheme Academic spring campaign aims to make all taxpayer-funded academic research available for free online
Monbiot in the Guardian 5.8.2013 about the role of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in spreading and defending the use of neonicotinoids: " So here we have a department staggering around like a drunkard with a loaded machine gun, assuring us that it’sh perfectly shafe. The people who should be defending the natural world have conspired with the manufacturers of wide-spectrum biocides to permit levels of destruction at which we can only guess. In doing so they appear to be engineering another silent spring.
On November 19, 1807, British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy reported to the Royal Society about the isolation of potassium and sodium from different salts by electrolysis. Davy was one of the pioneers in the field of electrolysis using the newly invented voltaic pile to split up common compounds and thus prepare many new elements.