David Ropeik
Science double standard: Media embrace NGO-exaggerated risks, downplay industry research
[T]here is a dangerous double standard in news coverage of environmental and public health risks. Research funded by industry, playing ...
How 2016 Transformed The GMO Debate And Paved The Way For Consumer Acceptance
The debate over GMO food safety is over, although diehard opponents of farming innovations may not acknowledge it. Consumers want ...
Familiar GMO denialists shrug off Academies safety, environmental findings
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. A massive National Academy of ...
Irrational fears may be built into our psychology
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In 2011, the city leaders of ...
In GMO debate, what’s worse? Biased scientists or uncritical media?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The headline on the ...
Fear of Fear: Will Campbell’s support for mandatory GMO labeling break impasse?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The Campbell Soup company, ...
Is Big Organic guilty of ‘Merchants of Doubt’ behavior?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Is Exxon Mobil’s behavior ...
Carcinogenic conundrum: Why we fear glyphosate but love bacon
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. But beyond putting the ...
Beware mudslinging: How abuse of FOIA derails discussion of science and GMOs
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. In general, FOIA requests ...
BBC debate: Is GMO opposition grounded in science?
Should we embrace technology that could help feed the world, or are concerns about the impact of global agribusiness and ...
GMO label may not dissuade buyers but rather encourage sales
Opponents of genetically modified food claim that their demand for labeling is only intended to provide choice for consumers. In ...
Just label it: Risk expert says food companies’ fears about GMO stigmatization unwarranted
There are a lot of pros and cons about agricultural biotechnology, AKA GMOs. Factual pros and cons about human safety ...
Center for Food Safety on how to trash a healthier eco-friendly potato—It’s a GMO!
Cooking potatoes (and many foods) causes the Maillard reaction, an interaction of sugars and amino acids perhaps most familiar in ...
David Ropeik views Nassim Taleb’s odd views on GMOs through a precautionary lens
David Ropeik, an internationally respected expert on risk, has been going head-to-head with 'black swan' proponent Nassim Taleb over Taleb's ...
‘Hateful’ example of anti-GMO activism illustrates dangers when emotion overpowers reason
There is a frightening, hateful turn of events taking place right now that anyone involved in the GMO issue, or ...
Study claiming organic more nutritious captures why it’s harder to figure out risk
A study in the news last week perfectly captures why it’s getting harder and harder to figure out what’s risky ...
Science ‘court’ to rule on ‘facts’ in contentious GMO debate
When the assessment of scientific facts becomes distorted with emotion as in the heated GMO debate, we may need to ...
Food industry should support and help guide GM labeling law to diffuse debate
Food production is a complicated, messy system. Labeling is easy to call for, but hard to actually work out. But the ...
Australian government push back on anti-vaccine sentiments needs to be repeated for GMO resistance
Imagine that a group of advocates tried to alert the public to a danger they perceived, only the evidence showed ...
Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice opponents should be held accountable for health problems
By 2002, Golden Rice was technically ready to go. Animal testing had found no health risks. Syngenta, which had figured out how ...
Psychology explains why many people fear GM foods
The brain is first and foremost in charge of keeping us alive and it uses everything it can to figure ...
Angry mob more frightening than GMOs
The Frankenstein metaphor that opponents of genetically modified food use to promote their fears is more apt than they realize ...
No GMOs? How about a helping of irradiated mutant fruits and veggies instead?
Although plants bred through industrial means like mutation breeding for genetic modification might seem dangerous, unnatural does not automatically mean ...
Open letter to CEOs of ‘BigAgTech’: Change stance on GMO labeling, build consumer trust
To reclaim consumer trust, agriculture companies must change their stance on labeling and support it, rather than fight it ...