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Viewpoint: Seed wars — How Russell Brand gets ‘Green Neo-Colonialism’ wrong
"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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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?
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
The increase in the prices of fuels, gas and foodstuffs has directly impacted the household budget to the point of ...
Insect-resistant GMO cowpea trials wow Nigerian farmers with jumping yields and lower costs — but other farmers remain hesitant
Last August, the farmers were given cowpea seeds genetically modified (GM) to resist the destructive pod-borer insect pest and improve ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s scaremongering Dirty Dozen list of ‘pesticide coated’ fruits and veggies loses influence
The Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen shoppers guides to avoiding pesticide residue used to be a huge splash in ...
‘Honeybees are not endangered and are doing just fine’: Xerces Society says it’s time to end public confusion, refocus on native species
When Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) occurred around 2006 and entire colonies of honeybees died, experts and the public alike were justifiably alarmed ...
Columbia University finally — but quietly — expunges connections to Trump-endorsed Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Oz, known for ‘quack’ science views and anti-GMO disinformation
After years of criticism, Columbia University Medical Center has finally—quietly—cut public ties with celebrity doctor turned Republican Senate candidate Mehmet Oz ...
Viewpoint: US farmer organizations offer blueprint to address climate change
As farmers, we’re committed to preserving the natural environment. It’s the foundation — literally and figuratively — of our success ...
Russia has long used social media to undermine consensus science behind GMOs, vaccines and other Western-based technologies
Hoaxlines found accounts that had pushed false claims about the 2009 Swine Flu and the vaccine against it had also promoted Russian state media and ...
GLP Podcast: Vaccine denier vs skeptic; Food changes DNA? Biotech will help solve next health crisis
Treating vaccine-hesitant individuals like they are hardcore vaccine "deniers" could backfire as a science-outreach strategy. Can the food you eat ...
‘A social construct with no biological reality’: Breaking down hymen myths
The belief that the hymen provides physical "proof" of sexual history is the premise of virginity testing, a practice condemned ...
Ghana farmers optimistic about GMO crops, survey finds
As Ghana considers approving its first genetically modified crop, a new report finds the country’s smallholder farmers are increasingly optimistic ...
Do you believe in human evolution? Rejectionism linked to racism and anti-LGBTQ attitudes
A disbelief in human evolution was associated with higher levels of prejudice, racist attitudes and support of discriminatory behavior against ...
Viewpoint — COVID fallout raises prickly question: Does science need a ‘rebrand’ to restore credibility as nonpartisan?
Harley-Davidson is one of the most iconic brands in the world. Harley-Davidson, however, doesn’t sell motorcycles – it sells a ...
Vanity Fair examines COVID lab-leak controversy
More than a year into the pandemic, the genesis of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, was still a mystery. ...
’Neophobia’: Consumers like what gene editing has to offer, but are still afraid of new technologies. Survey suggests why we need more biotech education
This article uses a consumer survey to gather perceptions regarding food safety, gene editing and willingness to consume for three ...
Part 2: Misinformation or disinformation? Deniers or skeptics? How the GMO and vaccine controversies are undermining science communication
“Disinformation” is a clever term to relegate the views we don’t like or care to hear to the realm of ...
Viewpoint: Anti-science vigilantism – Attacks target sociobiology pioneer EO Wilson
Was the renowned Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson wrongly convicted of racism and promoting race science in the court of ...
Is evolution fact? Embrace of science closely linked to childhood education standards
Virtually every U.S. high-school student is required to study biology, at minimum, to earn a diploma. But the exact content ...
