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2026 Credibility and Reputation Report

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Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker

Our interactive GLP global map explains the status of each country’s regulations for human and agricultural gene editing and gene drives.

GLP 2021 Annual Report

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Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on "attribution" science to target oil companies for global climate change

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on “attribution” science to target oil companies for global climate change

Alex Trembath, Elizabeth McCarthy

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America's health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Cameron English, Liza Lockwood

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

GLP Features

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America's health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Cameron English, Liza Lockwood

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on "attribution" science to target oil companies for global climate change

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on “attribution” science to target oil companies for global climate change

Alex Trembath, Elizabeth McCarthy

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

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Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Does glyphosate—the world's most heavily-used herbicide—pose serious harm to humans? Is it carcinogenic? Those issues are of both legal and ...

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A New Transparency Tool from the Genetic Literacy Project

Who is David and who is Goliath in the lobbying battle over agricultural biotechnology? Activists? Agro-business? In a commitment to transparency, the GLP has mined 5 years of data to help the public understand the funding network that shapes the biotechnology debate.

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Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Science Controversies in the Media

Viewpoint: The fragile (and often bizarre) MAHA-MAGA-far left health-and-chemicals coalition is fracturing. Here’s why

Making fertilizer from thin air: Bayer’s gene-editing innovation could dramatically cut chemical fertilizer use in growing food

Trump is “terminating” Biden-era rule aimed at cutting climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas drilling

Associated Press

Longevity scandal: The huckster who validates the ‘oldest people in the world’ claims

MIT Press Reader

Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research

Helpful until we’re helpless? Researchers warn AI is gradually eroding human control

‘Silent killer’: Hepatitis B could surge under Trump–RFK Jr. rollback of newborn vaccine recommendations

An Earth-saving benefit of global warming?: How fossil fuel-burning humans stopped the looming Ice Age

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Making fertilizer from thin air: Bayer’s gene-editing innovation could dramatically cut chemical fertilizer use in growing food

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Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

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Longevity scandal: The huckster who validates the ‘oldest people in the world’ claims

Viewpoint: How badly is the U.S. food-safety net fraying? FDA’s bungled handling of the tainted lettuce crisis deepens concerns over cuts to disease tracking and response

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Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on "attribution" science to target oil companies for global climate change

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Viewpoint: The fragile (and often bizarre) MAHA-MAGA-far left health-and-chemicals coalition is fracturing. Here’s why

Reaching Through the Woven Sky

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

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Viewpoint—“Miracle molecule” debunked: Why acemannan supplements don’t work

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Trump is “terminating” Biden-era rule aimed at cutting climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas drilling

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Viewpoint: Yes, our food system stinks, but the attack of ultra-processed foods is often misplaced

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Helpful until we’re helpless? Researchers warn AI is gradually eroding human control

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The COVID vaccine turbo cancer scare is back. Science still proves it’s wrong.

Patriotic Flag in a Glass Flask

Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research

Prescription Capsules Scattered on Twenty-Dollar Bills

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America's health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Viewpoint: The fragile (and often bizarre) MAHA-MAGA-far left health-and-chemicals coalition is fracturing. Here’s why

Making fertilizer from thin air: Bayer’s gene-editing innovation could dramatically cut chemical fertilizer use in growing food

Trump is “terminating” Biden-era rule aimed at cutting climate-warming methane emissions from oil and gas drilling

Longevity scandal: The huckster who validates the ‘oldest people in the world’ claims

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on “attribution” science to target oil companies for global climate change

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research

Helpful until we’re helpless? Researchers warn AI is gradually eroding human control

‘Silent killer’: Hepatitis B could surge under Trump–RFK Jr. rollback of newborn vaccine recommendations

An Earth-saving benefit of global warming?: How fossil fuel-burning humans stopped the looming Ice Age

GLP Library Search

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Ag Biotech Comms

Ag Gene Editing

Agricultural Regs & Ethics

Alternative Proteins

Ancestry & Evolution

Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy

Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy

Newly approved GMO chestnut trees planted across from the White House are stirring debate

We are entering a new era of personalized medicine—if you’re white

Artificial Intelligence

Viewpoint: AI pioneer Anthropic is going public. Should we embrace its transformative ambitions and safety promises, remain wary—or both?

Viewpoint: AI pioneer Anthropic is going public. Should we embrace its transformative ambitions and safety promises, remain wary—or both?

Race against food rot: How AI and gene editing could slash fruit and vegetable waste

What is a “normal” climate? Strategy for adapting to the unknown

Brain / Neuroscience

Chemical Controversies

Viewpoint: Activists hype ‘dangerous level’ of pesticide residues in Driscoll berries: Separating health concerns from fear-mongering

Viewpoint: Activists hype ‘dangerous level’ of pesticide residues in Driscoll berries: Separating health concerns from fear-mongering

‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Viewpoint: Yes, our food system stinks, but the attack of ultra-processed foods is often misplaced

We’re likely over-consuming the world’s most profitable nutrient – and it’s wrecking our waistlines.

Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research

Viewpoint: America Last: From the Pentagon to universities, Trump’s corruption of science could inflict lasting, irreversible damage on U.S. research

‘Silent killer’: Hepatitis B could surge under Trump–RFK Jr. rollback of newborn vaccine recommendations

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

Human Gene Editing

Medical Misinformation

Medical Regs & Ethics

Personalized Medicine

Synthetic Biology

Sustainability & Climate

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on "attribution" science to target oil companies for global climate change

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on “attribution” science to target oil companies for global climate change

An Earth-saving benefit of global warming?: How fossil fuel-burning humans stopped the looming Ice Age

Solar engineering to cool the planet might well work. Could it touch off a geoengineering arms race?