Author: Crispin Maslog
New testing methods can spare laboratory animals
By Crispin Maslog MANILA: We need to end animal sacrifice at the altar of science. The time has come for the scientific community to free animals from being subjected […]
Climate crisis is here – Lessons not learned
Surigao City in Mindanao, Philippines was one of the areas devastated by Typhoon Rai, locally known in the Philippines as “Odette”. (Photo: Philippine Coast Guard, Public domain). By Crispin Maslog […]
As Asian cities sink affecting 600 million people, managed retreat must be tabled
By Crispin Maslog MANILA: Even as Asia’s megacities continue to submerge, officials of one small Philippine city are planning a major US$460 million reclamation project that will damage or sink their […]
Asia’s dilemma – back to school now or not?
By: Crispin Maslog MANILA: Calls to resume classes in Asia increasing even as vaccination against COVID-19 lags, posing health risks. ‘Close open, close open,’ goes a lesson on the first day […]
Golden Rice’s unfulfilled promise
By Crispin Maslog MANILA: Golden Rice, announced two decades ago as the answer to Vitamin A deficiency, is nowhere near production. In 2000, a Time magazine cover announced the sprouting […]
Have vaccine passport, will travel
By Crispin Maslog MANILA: China, where the COVID-19 pandemic began a long year ago, has now become the first country in the world to issue a vaccine passport to promote […]
Entrée for lab-grown meat
By Crispin Maslog MANILA: Lost in the unending stream of news about the COVID-19 pandemic is the recent report that Singapore has just approved lab-grown meat for human consumption. The […]
To be or not to be (vaccinated) – That is the question!
By Crispin Maslog MANILA: The double good news is that vaccine hesitancy is going down as the Covid-19 vaccines are being rolled out in the United States, Canada and Europe. […]
It all began in Wuhan: An inside story
By Crispin Maslog Chair of the Board, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) WUHAN: “Around 9:30 a.m. on 22 January 2020, my brother and I were walking on the […]
Time for scientists to speak up and be heard
By Crispin Maslog ‘Science communication, however, is not a one-way street. The public, on the other hand, should start taking science and scientists seriously.’ MANILA: Science and scientists are being […]