science facts and fallacies

Science Facts & Fallacies Podcast

Kevin Folta is an agricultural geneticist at the University of Florida
Cameron English is Director of Bio-sciences at ACSH; formerly Genetic Literacy Project managing editor
From vaccine development to to GMO crops, biotech is revolutionizing medicine and farming. Sadly, misinformation is rampant among journalists and on the internet. Join us as we challenge the protagonists and explore the emerging science of human genetics, farming and food.
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Legalized weed drives drug addiction, psychosis?

Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Drug legalization is supposed to spur several critical improvements in public health. As more states legalize recreational marijuana, we're beginning ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Psychedelics for PTSD? Examining RFK, Jr's claims about ibogaine

Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined the chorus of psychedelic advocates who claim the drugs could revolutionize mental health care, ...
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Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Social media has been awash in panic as one influencer after another wrongly warns prospective parents against the routine (and ...
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Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Politics has infiltrated every facet of modern life, including medicine. And some Americans seem increasingly inclined to make important health ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Nicotine vaping—public health miracle, or risk to children? Professor Cliff Douglas

Biotech Facts & Fallacies

E-cigarettes burst onto the scene nearly 20 years, disrupting the cigarette industry and leaving anti-smoking advocates uncertain about how to ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Limit free speech to blunt social media misinfo?

Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Information, much of it false, spreads at lightning speed in today’s digital age. The problem is more troubling than it ...
GLP podcast: Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food—health harming industries or life-saving innovators?

Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Fossil fuels, pesticides and food processing have dramatically improved living standards around the globe. This may be a controversial claim, ...
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Biotech Facts & Fallacies

With illicit opioids still killing thousands of Americans each year, some public health advocates are pushing a radical solution to ...
GLP podcast: What's wrong with 'doomsday' environmentalism? It's false.

Biotech Facts & Fallacies

Ever notice how the environmental movement’s doomsday predictions arrive like clockwork, each one as urgent as the last? Mass starvation, ...

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