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GLP podcast/video: ‘Paraquat Papers’ — Latest pesticide scandal wrongly links weedkiller to Parkinson’s

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Thousands of pending lawsuits allege that the weedkiller paraquat causes Parkinson's Disease (PD), a connection its manufacturer tried to hide ...
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Phony Whistleblower Gambit: This is how far some environmental activist groups are willing to go to corrupt science for money and ideological gain

Cameron English | 
Environmental activists rely on several go-to tactics when fomenting fear of pesticides. One of their favorite methods is recruiting fake ...
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Viewpoint: Without measurable metrics, ‘regenerative agriculture’ is often little more than a data-less claim and a form of greenwashing. Here’s how to make it more science based and sustainable

Julian Little | 
In a previous column for SSA, just under a year ago, I highlighted concerns that the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), a ...
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Dissecting claims about Monsanto suing farmers for accidentally planting patented seeds

Layla Katiraee | 
Much to the dismay of anti-GMO activists, courts around the world including SCOTUS have consistently upheld the rights of companies ...
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Viewpoint: While environmentalists and journalists look the other way, anti-vax, pro-organic ‘dark money whore’ US Right to Know partners with organic food and tort lawyer hustlers to undermine science

David Zaruk | 
In the introduction to this Firebreak series on how foundations fund activists, I noted there were a wide variety of foundations: ...
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GLP podcast/video: Dangers of slanted science coverage; Media falsely claims glyphosate could harm pregnant women

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Exaggerated media coverage distorts the public's understanding of critically important scientific issues, and the consequences can be dire. How do ...
How ideological foundations and ‘dark money’ seed activist environmental movement and undermine science

How ideological foundations and ‘dark money’ seed activist environmental movement and undermine science

David Zaruk | 
Time was that non-profits were funded by their membership dues or individual donations, loose change drums at airports and clipboard ...
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Race, gender and science: Should positionality statement ‘identity biographies’ be mandatory on science research papers?

Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue et al. | 
In Defense of Universalism in Science In a November article in Science magazine, journalist Rachael Zamzow informs us that many ...
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Viewpoint: Are ESG — environmental, social and governance — goals the next step in corporate citizenship or an activist imposition?

David Zaruk | 
Corporate ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) performance measurements have recently polarised the business community. Many see it as the next ...
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25+ years into the crop biotechnology revolution, ‘Canadian prairie farmers are among the most sustainable on the planet’. Europe? Not so much

Stuart Smyth | 
Canadian agriculture has embraced innovative technologies and products. Canadian farmers rapidly adopted genetically modified crops following their approvals in the ...
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Viewpoint: Never heard of the Heartland Health Research Alliance? Here’s how the organic- and tort-lawyer funded sham research center generates disinformation about glyphosate and other farm chemicals

David Zaruk, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Where would science be if an influential institute today was established by tort lawyers to produce research solely for use ...
‘Perhaps GMOs are closer to natural processes than we think’: How genetic modification mimics natural evolution of plants

‘Perhaps GMOs are closer to natural processes than we think’: How genetic modification mimics natural evolution of plants

Lara Pereira, Luke Dunning, Pauline Raimondeau | 
Genetically modified (GM) crops may be controversial, but similar processes happen naturally with wild plants. However, scientists have long been ...
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Are pesticide residues on food something to worry about?

Jon Entine, Kayleen Schreiber, Marc Brazeau | 
Just like anything that goes into your body, it’s the dose (the amount) that matters ...
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Will England emerge as a world innovator in gene-edited crops?

Steven Cerier | 
Brexit has been a disaster for the UK.  It has not spurred the great economic revival that many of the ...
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A llama-inspired way to protect crops

Steve Savage | 
Most of us will never see a live llama except at a zoo unless we have an opportunity to travel ...
Pesticides and Food: It's not a black or white issue — Has pesticide use decreased since the introduction of GMO crops?

Pesticides and Food: It’s not a black or white issue — Has pesticide use decreased since the introduction of GMO crops?

Kayleen Schreiber, Marc Brazeau | 
What is the truth about crop pesticides and their residues in food in 2018? ...
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Viewpoint: Perversity activism — How European anti-biotechnology NGOs end up promoting commodity-crop farming, consolidating the seed market and undermining sustainability

David Zaruk | 
One of the most attractive advantages of NGTs is the low cost of entry for innovators. Labs in developing countries ...
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Viewpoint: Activists shift tactics on glyphosate, attacking independent European science-oversight agencies that have unanimously found the herbicide safe

David Zaruk | 
Glyphosate ate the world! Every single day another serious disease, from all types of cancer to Parkinson’s, is attributed to ...
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Viewpoint: ‘We need to fend off the sophistry and mendacity of anti-innovation, anti-biotechnology activists’ — Science must be evaluated in the light of tradeoffs

David Bertioli, Henry Miller | 
The adage “Follow the science” when formulating public policy has much to recommend it, but it’s not as straightforward as ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how zealous environmental groups dupe politicians about the ‘widespread dangers’ of many safe and effective pesticides

Viewpoint: Here’s how zealous environmental groups dupe politicians about the ‘widespread dangers’ of many safe and effective pesticides

Henry Miller | 
Pesticides used in agriculture have long been the subject of controversy and misinformation – and the attention of regulators. Since ...
Viewpoint: Scientifically illiterate claim that aspartame causes cancer illustrates again the escalating politicization of science

Viewpoint: Scientifically illiterate claim that aspartame causes cancer illustrates again the escalating politicization of science

Hank Campbell | 
If you have been in science media for any period of time, you have seen a predictable pattern; epidemiologists look ...
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Analysis: Do neonicotinoid and glyphosate pesticides threaten bees? A reassessment

Jon Entine | 
"The honeybee is in no way endangered. If there’s a top ten list of what’s killing honey bee colonies, I’d ...
Viewpoint: Rejecting simplistic organic farming — Instead of worrying about which farming system is more ‘natural', which is impossible to define, focus on sustainability

Viewpoint: Rejecting simplistic organic farming — Instead of worrying about which farming system is more ‘natural’, which is impossible to define, focus on sustainability

Maarten Chrispeels | 
Back in 2004, Mendocino County in California hit the headlines after becoming the first county in the United States to vote ...
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GLP podcast/video: Many Americans still reject evolution; should we worry? Top-10 food myths, debunked; Farmers finally growing Golden Rice

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
The creation-evolution debate has fallen out of the spotlight in recent years, but many Americans still reject Darwin's theory. Should ...
Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate rabbit hole — Will the ethically-compromised International Agency for Cancer (IARC) lead Europe to embrace a scientifically-challenged Green Deal?

Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate rabbit hole — Will the ethically-compromised International Agency for Cancer (IARC) lead Europe to embrace a scientifically-challenged Green Deal?

Chandre Dharma-wardana | 
What chemicals or environmental exposures are likely to cause cancer? That’s a complex question with a wide variance in views ...
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Disaster interrupted: Which farming system better preserves insect populations: Organic or conventional?

Jon Entine | 
A three-year run of fragmentary Armageddon-like studies had primed the journalism pumps and settled the media framing about the future ...
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