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Viewpoint: Why the COVID-19 lab leak theory refuses to die
Ever since the coronavirus now known as SARS-CoV-2 was first identified as the cause of an outbreak of a mysterious ...
Glyphosate traces in breast milk? Weedkiller causes neurological disorders? How activists leverage social media to distort science and spread bogus health concerns
Shocking accounts of health dangers selectively presented from peer-reviewed science articles regularly invade Twitter. It’s the stock-in-trade of technology rejectionists ...
Revising my genetics textbook: A PC exercise or an appropriate evolution of science and sensitivity? Or both.
Beyoncé is facing a lot of criticism for using an ableist slur in her new co-written song Renaissance. She used ...
Viewpoint: Non-GMO Project promotes genetically-modified seedless watermelon
As summer grinds on, the Non-GMO Project is here to reassure consumers that seedless watermelon is not genetically modified. “Are ...
Lax peer review + social media + confusing and misinterpreted data: Why so many COVID-era studies presented incomplete science
The pandemic has upended many practices, among them peer review of technical medical and scientific articles. Lax peer review + ...
Investigation Part I: Growing fraud threatens trust in organic food industry, says South Dakota News
Kent Duane Anderson of Belle Fourche made $71 million in fraudulent income by selling thousands of tons of conventionally grown ...
Can we learn? How Israel — a world leader in handling COVID — is ramping up to deal with monkeypox
Despite having recorded only 125 cases of the disease, Israeli health authorities have taken the unusual approach of securing 10,000 ...
Viewpoint: For centuries, grain yields remained stagnant — but they have tripled since 1960. We can thank biotechnology innovations
For centuries, yields for crops like corn remained relatively steady. Everything changed in the middle of the 20th century ...
COVID disruptions and anti-vaccination fervor drops global child vaccination rates to 30-year low
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, global childhood vaccinations have experienced the largest sustained decline in about 30 years, ...
Coming down with monkeypox comes with a stigma. Here’s how to talk about the virus
As places like San Francisco and New York state declare the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency, there's a major ...
Viewpoint: No, chemicals are not making you fat—Environmental Working Group gets the science wrong yet again
The activists at Environmental Working Group (EWG) consistently butcher the science on a variety of consumer health issues. They're wrong about ...
‘Racist overtones’: Renaming ’monkeypox’ runs into headwinds
Since the earliest days of the current global monkeypox outbreak, scientists and public health authorities have been calling for the ...
‘Feed Your Mind’: FDA releases guide on GMOs, emphasizing their safety, sustainability and occasional nutritional advantages
GMO foods have been available to consumers since the early 1990s. Since then, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), ...
African leaders voice support for GMOs
As African governments ponder the fate of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), prominent leaders across the continent have openly expressed support ...
US security report: China’s efforts to acheive food security seen as threat to steal crop biotechnology innovations and weaponize gene-editing tools
China’s efforts to achieve food security represent a threat to the US, according to an American federal agency focused on ...
Long-awaited malaria vaccines finally reach children’s arms — but how effective are they?
As the World Health Organization announces the next step in its rollout of the world’s first authorized malaria vaccine in ...
What causes ‘growing pains’? Little is known about this childhood rite of passage
The term 'growing pains' has been used for hundreds of years to describe aching sensations many children experience in the ...
Part II: Web of Disinformers: The network of anti-crop biotechnology activists, and the funders behind their campaigns
Carey Gillam, once a reporter at Reuters covering food and farming, left her job under a cloud, challenged by her ...
Communicating in the age of disinformation: Four patterns of anti-science thinking and how to challenge them
The same four factors that explain how people change their beliefs on a variety of issues can account for the ...
GLP Podcast: EPA’s political weedkiller rules; GMO-derived beer on sale; Anti-glyphosate webinar review
The Biden Administration just overruled its own scientists at the EPA, mandating regulations that effectively ban the low-risk, effective weedkiller ...
Part I: Carey Gillam — Reporter turned organic propagandist who twists science in campaign to discredit biotechnology and conventional agriculture
With links to the Church of Scientology, anti-vaccine glyphosate litigator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Organic Consumers Association, US Right to ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO advocates are losing ground
The anti-Genetic Engineering movement is on shaky ground because it has let its beliefs blind it to the strong scientific ...
Viewpoint: Leading agricultural biotechnology critic Paul Thacker morphs into anti-vaccine propagandist
It’s been a while since I’ve written about Paul Thacker, the formerly legitimate investigative journalist who squandered his reputation by ...
Managing grief: How science can help guide end of life discussions with children
Children may not ask questions indicative of an existential crisis. They often ask very practical questions: What happens after we ...
Health and autonomy: How COVID has challenged already-tenuous balance among public health, religion and personal values
Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. At the time, 118,000 cases and 4,000 deaths ...
In the Battle to Regulate GMOS, Gene Editing and other New Breeding Techniques, Who Has ‘Hazard Blood’ on their Hands?
This third segment in the mini-series will look at the networks of highly-motivated campaigners manipulating policy and pushing the hazard-based ...
Viewpoint: Why commercializing GMOs would help Ghana and the rest of Africa address food shortages
A research scientist, Dr. Richard Ampadu-Ameyaw, has indicated that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have played major roles in addressing challenges ...
