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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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The exploding controversy over AI’s built-in survival drive

The exploding controversy over AI’s built-in survival drive

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

Chuck Dinerstein

Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

GLP Features

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer

The exploding controversy over AI’s built-in survival drive

The exploding controversy over AI’s built-in survival drive

Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

Chuck Dinerstein

Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

Viewpoint: SCOTUS poised to address First Amendment tension between mandatory vaccines, children’s health and religious freedom

Viewpoint: SCOTUS poised to address First Amendment tension between mandatory vaccines, children’s health and religious freedom

'We are dangerously addicted to antidepressants': Should we heed RFK Jr.’s sobering warning?

‘We are dangerously addicted to antidepressants’: Should we heed RFK Jr.’s sobering warning?

Viewpoint: Why do online health lies outlive the evidence that debunks them? Read "Everyone Else Is Lying to You"

Viewpoint: Why do online health lies outlive the evidence that debunks them? Read “Everyone Else Is Lying to You”

Viewpoint: The fake controversy over whether combining childhood vaccines is dangerous— a debate science resolved 25 years ago

Viewpoint: The fake controversy over whether combining childhood vaccines is dangerous— a debate science resolved 25 years ago

Investigative group ProPublica finds links between ectopic pregnancy deaths and abortion bans

Investigative group ProPublica finds links between ectopic pregnancy deaths and abortion bans

Agnel Philip, Andrea Suozzo

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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.

Explore donor and recipient interactive maps

Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Science Controversies in the Media

Viewpoint: Died “with measles” vs. died “from measles”: RFK, Jr.’s dangerously subversive word games

Vaccine hesitancy, like malaria, surges globally, topping 35% in some countries

Yun Seulgi | Asia Business Daily

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s? The latest grifter, social media scam.

Here are all the ways CRISPR gene editing is transforming Africa’s staple crops—and there’s a lot more innovation to come

How U.S. teamed with Russia to block global human AI weapons oversight

Washington Post

Defying public perceptions, U.S. cancer deaths plunged 35% since 1991

Social media influencers are driving food misinformation across Europe

Viewpoint: Kennedy’s ‘bad science’: MAGA embrace bolsters HHS secretary’s influence and popularity

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Viewpoint: After firing the entire National Science Board, Trump reshapes funding initiatives. Here’s the good and the bad.

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Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

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Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

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Viewpoint: Activist environmental NGOs are turning from public funding to activist billionaires to support their campaigns. It won’t end well.

Viewpoint: Died “with measles” vs. died “from measles”: RFK, Jr.’s dangerously subversive word games

Vaccine hesitancy, like malaria, surges globally, topping 35% in some countries

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s? The latest grifter, social media scam.

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Here are all the ways CRISPR gene editing is transforming Africa’s staple crops—and there’s a lot more innovation to come

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

How U.S. teamed with Russia to block global human AI weapons oversight

Defying public perceptions, U.S. cancer deaths plunged 35% since 1991

Social media influencers are driving food misinformation across Europe

Viewpoint: Kennedy’s ‘bad science’: MAGA embrace bolsters HHS secretary’s influence and popularity

Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

GLP Library Search

The GLP Library contains over 37,000 articles—it is among the largest online repositories of articles about science communication.

Ag Biotech Comms

Ag Gene Editing

Agricultural Regs & Ethics

Alternative Proteins

Ancestry & Evolution

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

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

Facts & Fallacies podcast: The ‘woke’ crusade against anthropology? Dr. Elizabeth Weiss

Artificial Intelligence

Energy-sucking data centers are unpopular across the political spectrum. Could moving them into space change the equation?

Energy-sucking data centers are unpopular across the political spectrum. Could moving them into space change the equation?

The exploding controversy over AI’s built-in survival drive

Now AI almost started a war with China

Brain / Neuroscience

Chemical Controversies

Viewpoint: How to ecologically damage America’s forests: Ban glyphosate

Viewpoint: How to ecologically damage America’s forests: Ban glyphosate

‘Glyphosate is not carcinogenic’: Independent EU chemical oversight agency reaffirms—for the 3rd time in 9 years—that the herbicide is safe-as-used

Bayer urges court to approve $7.25 billion Monsanto Roundup settlement that could limit its future liabilities

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Social media influencers are driving food misinformation across Europe

Viewpoint: Chipotle-inspired lesson: 10,000 sick customers suggest that processed foods can be safer than fresh ones

Vaccine hesitancy, like malaria, surges globally, topping 35% in some countries

Vaccine hesitancy, like malaria, surges globally, topping 35% in some countries

Blood tests for Alzheimer’s? The latest grifter, social media scam.

Viewpoint: Even lousy scientific articles can shield authors when they hype dubious health claims and products

Human Gene Editing

Medical Misinformation

Medical Regs & Ethics

Personalized Medicine

Synthetic Biology

Sustainability & Climate

Energy-sucking data centers are unpopular across the political spectrum. Could moving them into space change the equation?

Energy-sucking data centers are unpopular across the political spectrum. Could moving them into space change the equation?

Anti-GMO activists in Pakistan rev up their campaign of dire warnings

Viewpoint: Is corporate embrace of regenerative agriculture greenwashing?