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Many people equate COVID with flu. Here’s why it’s more like smoking
It’s suddenly become acceptable to say that COVID is—or will soon be—like the flu. Such analogies have long been the ...
Viewpoint: Dissecting anti-science smears — Center for Media and Democracy spreads disinformation about food and science communication
At a time when democracy is threatened by a number of sources and media is a potent remedy or problem, ...
Viewpoint: Why is Neil Young portrayed as a hero for challenging Joe Rogan’s anti-vax rants while promoting crop biotechnology disinformation himself?
Neil Young doesn’t make the kind of music I enjoy. Instead I was familiar with his name because he was ...
GLP Podcast: Loneliness causes dementia? Parkinson’s-fighting GM tomatoes; ‘Sovietizing’ science
Loneliness could drastically boost your risk of developing dementia. Genetically engineered tomatoes may be our first line of defense against ...
On the path to a universal COVID vaccine
Is chasing the latest variant a viable strategy? Instead of testing and potentially deploying a new shot when a new ...
Viewpoint: Despite organic farming’s massive failures and extensive fraud, many people still think the ‘miracle of smaller yields’ will save the planet
Numerous headlines lately described a frightening scenario: during a global pandemic, the food security of Sri Lanka was put at ...
Genetics has come a long way since Gregor Mendel mapped inheritance using peas: Deconstructing the muddle of genetics and inheritance
The year was 1900. Three European botanists — one Dutch, one German and one Austrian — all reported results from ...
Viewpoint — Prince Charles’ ongoing rejection of GM, biotechnology-inspired crop advances is the latest example of celebrity disinformation on science
There are relatively few people in the world who possess sufficient gravitas that the media are prepared to publicize their ...
Viewpoint: How organic labeling and marketing undermines efforts to reduce carbon emissions and improve farming sustainablity
Officially, the Environmental Protection Agency defines organic food as: “Food grown and processed using no synthetic fertilizer or pesticides.” Products emblazoned with ...
Viewpoint: Manufacturing misinformation — How the Environmental Working Group spreads false facts about pesticide dangers
Ventura County farmers farm food, the Environmental Working Group farms clicks. Unfortunately, the Ventura County Star has elevated misinformation about ...
Black Americans are under-represented in genetic studies. Here’s why that’s an issue — and what’s being done to address it
The overwhelming majority of genetic data is from people of European ancestry. As of early January, nearly 96 percent of ...
TikTok conspiracy claim debunked: No, food cannot be genetically engineered to cause infertility in Black people
According to an alarming claim in a video circulating on Facebook, scientists have found a way to engineer food to ...
Living with chicken pox offers lessons for the COVID era
Last summer, at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an internal presentation on the coronavirus, which was leaked to ...
Viewpoint: Environmentalist delusions? Why ‘progressive’ opposition to nuclear energy and crop biotechnology are the biggest obstacles to addressing climate change
In the recent Netflix smash hit Don’t Look Up, scientists try to warn the world about a comet hurtling towards ...
Question the ‘lab leak’ theory but don’t call it a conspiracy
A warning: This article will not tell you whether SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab and set off the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
What can be done to overcome vaccine skeptics’ fear and opposition? Here’s how one clinic is meeting that challenge
Vaccine skepticism in Los Angeles County, where 72 percent of eligible residents are fully vaccinated, is bipartisan. Vaccination rates are ...
Gene drives in development could alter mosquito DNA to prevent the spread of disease. That raises ethical concerns
Gene drive research carries great potential for controlling insect vectors of devastating diseases, but there are multiple unresolved ethical concerns ...
Talking Biotech: Percy vs. Goliath—Hollywood aside, what really went down with Canadian farmer Percy Schmeiser’s court battle with Monsanto?
The story of Percy Schmeiser is a well known tale of big biotech against the little farmer from rural Saskatchewan ...
GLP Podcast: Don’t ‘cancel’ Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion
The recent campaign to "cancel" comedian Joe Rogan for promoting COVID misinformation highlights a troubling trend in science communication. High-functioning ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’
Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a ...
‘Safer than natural’: Japan’s leading food risk expert says genetically modified and gene edited crops are safer than ‘wild varieties’ and offer ‘improved taste and yield’
When comparing artificially modified crops such as GM/genome editing with natural crops, "natural" seems safe at first glance, but it ...
Divide deepens in states over COVID mask and vaccination mandates
As the [COVID-19] crisis grinds toward its third lethal year, states have shown little letup in their approaches to the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns
Earlier this year, I (Anna) did something that my friends feared I would come to regret: I publicly spoke out ...
Viewpoint: Will the Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen finally adopt science this year — instead of promoting evidence-free scaremongering?
For over 25 years, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released its so-called “dirty dozen” list, which inaccurately disparages popular, ...
Viewpoint: Scientific American’s bizarre promotion of ‘woke’ agricultural biotechnology rejectionism
Recently I highlighted four disturbing trends in science journalism that are destroying the public's trust in mainstream academic and public health ...
How COVID vaccine skepticism is morphing into a broader anti-vax movement
Skepticism toward Covid-19 vaccines could be fueling a “worrisome” rise in broader anti-vax sentiment, doctors have said. Professor Liam Smeeth, ...
Viewpoint: Free speech dustup? Joe Rogan, Spotify, and especially Neil Young — promoting anti-science fear mongering on GMOs — all came away looking foolish
Critics have contended that Joe Rogan’s podcast, hosted by Spotify, promotes vaccine-skeptical guests and boosts the spread of misinformation about ...
