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Part II: Seeds of Reaction — How anti-GMO ‘progressivism’ morphed into a technophobic science rejectionist movement

Marc Brazeau | 
Part One of this essay on the evolution of anti-GMO activism ended with an introduction to the book The Rhetoric ...
Genetics plays outsized and underappreciated role in how COVID victims cope with virus after effects

Genetics plays outsized and underappreciated role in how COVID victims cope with virus after effects

Liji Thomas | 
A new paper looks at the genetic contribution to individual wellbeing during the pandemic, seeking to find support for the ...
Djibouti and Oxitec announce pilot project using genetic modification to help remove invasive malaria-transmitting mosquitoes threatening the Horn of Africa

Djibouti and Oxitec announce pilot project using genetic modification to help remove invasive malaria-transmitting mosquitoes threatening the Horn of Africa

Oxitec Ltd, the leading developer of biological pest control solutions, [May 31] announced the launch of a new partnership with ...
Part 1: Viewpoint — Anti-GMO activists conjure up new scare messages as their influence wanes

Part 1: Viewpoint — Anti-GMO activists conjure up new scare messages as their influence wanes

Marc Brazeau | 
It's been ten years of downhill sledding for advocacy groups and activists campaigning to throttle the burgeoning biotechnology revolution transforming ...
COVID misinformation doctors make rounds on lucrative rightwing speech circuit

COVID misinformation doctors make rounds on lucrative rightwing speech circuit

Kristina Fiore | 
Two of the most visible right-wing, conservative political movements in the U.S. right now -- "Defeat the Mandates" and the ...
Scotland and Wales reject UK’s crop gene editing regulatory liberalization plans while anti-GMO groups demand labeling

Scotland and Wales reject UK’s crop gene editing regulatory liberalization plans while anti-GMO groups demand labeling

Sam Tonkin | 
Fury erupted [May 25] over Government plans to allow gene-edited foods to be sold unlabelled in British supermarkets — as ...
No plans for UK to label gene edited foods once agricultural biotechnology reform legislation passes

No plans for UK to label gene edited foods once agricultural biotechnology reform legislation passes

Sam Tonkin | 
Shoppers will be unable to tell if they are eating 'gene-edited' foods as part of new government plans to speed ...
Viewpoint: Germany’s anti-GMO ‘Slow Food’ activist group invokes ‘precautionary principle’, demands labeling to block crop gene editing deregulation

Viewpoint: Germany’s anti-GMO ‘Slow Food’ activist group invokes ‘precautionary principle’, demands labeling to block crop gene editing deregulation

A strong lobby of some corporations, technological and scientific associations is committed to exempting new genetic engineering processes from regulation ...
Viewpoint: From energy to agriculture, the mainstream environmentalism movement has become anti-technology

Viewpoint: From energy to agriculture, the mainstream environmentalism movement has become anti-technology

Alex Trembath | 
For some reason, an increasing number of writers seem surprised to discover that environmentalists are anti-technology. [Recently,] Josh Barro excoriated “coalitions ...
Will global warming roil natural habitats and unleash zoonotic plagues on humankind?

Will global warming roil natural habitats and unleash zoonotic plagues on humankind?

Andreas Kluth | 
The word zoonosis comes from the Greek for “animal disease.” It applies to pathogens that can jump both between critters ...
Conspiracist Alex Jones spreads factless claim that monkeypox linked to COVID vaccines

Conspiracist Alex Jones spreads factless claim that monkeypox linked to COVID vaccines

Bruce Lee | 
Well, it was only a matter of time before someone started blaming the Covid-19 vaccines for the current ongoing monkeypox ...
Did Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian plant genetic resource center also demolish the country's National Seed Bank?

Did Russia’s destruction of Ukrainian plant genetic resource center also demolish the country’s National Seed Bank?

Aristos Georgiou | 
Earlier this year, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and while Vladimir Putin's forces have largely retreated from the north ...
Cloud of disinformation: Ghanian scientist challenges anti-GMO scare campaigns in Africa

Cloud of disinformation: Ghanian scientist challenges anti-GMO scare campaigns in Africa

Zadok Gyesi | 
Africa has a more urgent need than the rest of the world to adopt genetically modified organisms for agricultural improvement, ...
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New Zealand Farmer on the GMO Moratorium’s Impact on Sustainable Food and Agriculture, and Hopes CRISPR Crops Won’t Face the Same Fate

Craige Mackenzie | 
Craige Mackenzie, Farmer in Methven, New Zealand | June 26, 2018Highlights:New Zealand’s island status has intensified its commitment to sustainable farming‘Wait-and-see’ ...
Viewpoint: Why we should be cautious about injectable weight loss drugs

Viewpoint: Why we should be cautious about injectable weight loss drugs

Buzz Hollander | 
This headline caught my attention: “Experimental Weight-Loss Drug Shows Surgery-Like Results”.  This new med, tirzepatide, a once-weekly injectable, will probably ...
Viewpoint: How much are male-female differences grounded in genetics?

Viewpoint: How much are male-female differences grounded in genetics?

Agustín Fuentes | 
The belief that men are by nature aggressive and belligerent but protectors—like the Roman god of war, Mars—and women are ...
Viewpoint: Seed wars — How Russell Brand gets ‘Green Neo-Colonialism’ wrong

Viewpoint: Seed wars — How Russell Brand gets ‘Green Neo-Colonialism’ wrong

Cameron English | 
"Why Is Bill Gates Buying Up Stolen Native American Land?" British comedian and actor Russell Brand asked in a recent ...
As organic foods go mainstream and prices remain high, survey shows ‘growing skepticism about organic claims’

As organic foods go mainstream and prices remain high, survey shows ‘growing skepticism about organic claims’

Elizabeth Crawford | 
As organic continues to go mainstream with broader reach outside of the natural channel where it began, it faces increased ...
Viewpoint: Nuance in short supply as NYU's Jennifer Jacquet and Civil Eats bungle meat industry's role in global warming

Viewpoint: Nuance in short supply as NYU’s Jennifer Jacquet and Civil Eats bungle meat industry’s role in global warming

Cameron English | 
Activists frequently assert that 'Big Meat' has tried to deny agriculture's contribution to climate change. Is there any truth to ...
Why the US won't spot the next big COVID wave until it's too late

Why the US won’t spot the next big COVID wave until it’s too late

Maryn McKenna | 
Lines on charts can tell you something about the state of the Covid pandemic in the United States. Deaths: declining, ...
Viewpoint: Challenging scaremongering about alleged dangers of eating too much yogurt, cheese and other dairy products

Viewpoint: Challenging scaremongering about alleged dangers of eating too much yogurt, cheese and other dairy products

Alice Howarth | 
In 2016, a study looked into whether dietary dairy would increase the circulating levels of oestrogen in mice – the researchers ...
Viewpoint: ‘We are paying for genetic engineering bashing by groups that have used fear to put forward organic-centric diet', says Canadian agri-food professor

Viewpoint: ‘We are paying for genetic engineering bashing by groups that have used fear to put forward organic-centric diet’, says Canadian agri-food professor

Sylvain Charlebois | 
About 15 per cent of all calories on Earth come from wheat. Corn covers a lot of calorific ground as ...
Evolution rejectionists turn to mathematics and probability theory to bolster their case. Here’s why they’ve failed

Evolution rejectionists turn to mathematics and probability theory to bolster their case. Here’s why they’ve failed

Jason Rosenhouse | 
For the past fifteen years, the anti-evolutionist literature has been dominated by mathematical arguments, typically drawn from the fields of ...
Ethics and gene editing: How China is deterring another ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal

Ethics and gene editing: How China is deterring another ‘CRISPR babies’ scandal

Smriti Mallapaty | 
China’s powerful State Council is calling on research institutions to expand and improve their ethics training. The directive, one of ...
Was GMO critic Sheldon Krimsky ‘rigorous’ and ‘courageous' as Ralph Nader and the NY Times claim? Or was the recently-deceased Tufts professor an anti-science crank?

Was GMO critic Sheldon Krimsky ‘rigorous’ and ‘courageous’ as Ralph Nader and the NY Times claim? Or was the recently-deceased Tufts professor an anti-science crank?

Was Sheldon Krimsky a seer who appropriately warned about a lack of oversight of the biotechnology revolution, including the inherent ...
Reviewing ‘The Genetic Lottery’: How much does genetics define us?

Reviewing ‘The Genetic Lottery’: How much does genetics define us?

Jessica Riskin, M.W. Feldman | 
You must know the parable about the frog that sits in a pot of water being gradually heated, allowing itself ...
'Consumers have finally become aware of certain realities': Rising inflation and food crisis have cut organic produce sales in France

‘Consumers have finally become aware of certain realities’: Rising inflation and food crisis have cut organic produce sales in France

Armand Paquereau | 
The increase in the prices of fuels, gas and foodstuffs has directly impacted the household budget to the point of ...
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