Viewpoint: How did science become a messy jumble of politics and negotiation.

Viewpoint: How did science become a messy jumble of politics?

Oliver Traldi | 
Mucking around in the messy business of political compromises and calculations puts scientists at a distance from what they really ...
Podcast: CRISPR can cause cancer? Vitamin B6 may fight depression; COVID 'groupthink'

Podcast: CRISPR can cause cancer? Vitamin B6 may fight depression; COVID ‘groupthink’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
CRISPR gene editing has already proved to be a useful biomedical tool, but a recent study indicates it may damage ...
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It’s not going away: We need a real, non-political debate about the best way to live with COVID or countries will fracture

Danny Dorling | 
In 1968, at the height of the last great influenza pandemic, at least a million people worldwide died, including 100,000 ...
Podcast: When science and politics collide: How JBS Haldane's radical views clouded his scientific mind

Podcast: When science and politics collide: How JBS Haldane’s radical views clouded his scientific mind

Kat Arney, Samanth Subramanian | 
Dr Kat Arney explores the life and complex legacy of JBS Haldane, whose work, writing and dominant personality made him ...
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Re-energized anti-vaccine activism is growing on the right and winning the social media battle to discredit coming coronavirus treatments

Jonathan Jarry | 
What does an antivaxxer and a far-right activist have in common? If the thought of someone who opposes vaccines brings ...
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Latest partisan flashpoint: Gap between rising confirmed coronavirus infections and relatively flat death rate

Derek Thompson | 
President Donald Trump has brushed off the coronavirus surge by emphasizing the lower death rate, saying that “99 percent of ...
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Why facts don’t work against vaccine deniers and other science skeptics

Adrian Bardon | 
Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ...
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Viewpoint: Stanford epidemiologist John Ioannidis’ COVID-19 controversy illustrates the politicization of science

Jeanne Lenzer, Shannon Brownlee | 
The critical questions the Stanford professor is raising about Covid-19 have gotten lost amid partisan bickering ...
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Viewpoint: Modern ‘post-truth’ politics ignores sustainability benefits of GMOs and pesticides

Fred Roeder | 
As Africa shows, locust plagues can be devastating for food security, and climate science enables us to detect that certain ...
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A farmer’s view: Excessive regulation threatens the future of agriculture

Carina Konrad | 
My husband and I manage a farm in Rhineland-Palatinate [in Germany] with agriculture and livestock. Agriculture thinks in generations, so we, ...
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How genetics could help agroecology—the science, not the political movement

Andrew Porterfield | 
Agroecology isn’t rocket science So wrote Daniel Moss, head of the AgroEcology Fund, and Mark Bittman, former food columnist, in ...
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Viewpoint: Greenpeace and ‘the awful reality of anti-science activism’

Bill Wirtz | 
The Austrian research portal "Addendum" released a bombshell video regarding the facts, figures, and positions regarding GMO foods. In this ...
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Glyphosate, IARC and politics: ‘We need a more honest debate’

Ian Plewis | 
Glyphosate is one of the most hotly-debated herbicides of the modern era. Many of the arguments against the popular weed-killer ...
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Viewpoint: Self-interest, rather than ignorance, key driver in GMO and climate change rejectionism

David Zilberman | 
GMO opponents and climate change deniers often share a common characteristic -- their actions and decisions are driven by the ...
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Genetics may have played a part in electing Trump president

Andrew Porterfield | 
Do our genetics influence whether we lean to the political left or right? It's obviously more complicated than that, but ...
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American attitudes toward GMO foods divides by education and gender, not politics nor religion

David Despain | 
A new Pew survey found that acceptance of use of GMOs crops and pesticides depended far more on education and ...
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