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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 ...
Post COVID ‘new normal’: How the coronavirus is permanently changing our health care system
A great reckoning is taking place around the globe as, one by one, nations accept a harsh reality. We will ...
GOP wedge issue: Republicans broaden attacks on COVID guidelines that factor race into treatment prioritizations
Republicans are accusing the Biden administration of racism — against white people. The administration’s recommendation that race and ethnicity be ...
Viewpoint: Neil Young’s GMO and biotechnology rejection preceding his Joe Rogan-Spotify awakening featured alliance with notorious anti-vaxxers
Prior to 2021, the demographic that overwhelmingly included vaccine deniers was Neil Young's political tribe. Find a Whole Foods, and ...
Viewpoint: Did Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins preside over lab-leak theory suppression for political reasons?
From almost the moment the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in the city of Wuhan, the medical-research establishment in Washington and ...
Viewpoint: Reflecting on science journalism in 2021 — Four trends that need to be reversed for media to regain credibility
Science journalism is plagued by several critical problems that jeopardize its credibility. If we want the public to be more ...
Neil Young’s hypocrisy? Before his COVID misinformation Spotify ultimatum, Young released a propaganda album misrepresenting crop biotechnology
Neil Young demanded in a (since-deleted) open letter on his website that Spotify either remove his music or Joe Rogan’s podcast from its ...
Infographics: Vaccinated vs. unvaccinated — Death risk differences are startling
Some of the timeliest data on Covid-19 outcomes by vaccination status comes from New York City and the Seattle area, and ...
Viewpoint: Will successful GMO pig heart and kidney transplants challenge anti-biotechnology mindsets?
What if pigs were to grow hearts and save human lives? This dream became a reality earlier this month when ...
US ‘War on Cancer’ is 50 years along: How Mary Lasker revolutionized public perceptions of this terrible disease
In the first half of the 20th century, cancer was misunderstood. It was widely considered a death sentence, and some ...
GLP Podcast: Academic freedom has limits? UK backtracks on neonic ban; ‘Non-GMO’ tearless onions
Does academic freedom protect professors who spread scientific nonsense online? The UK appears to be backtracking on a pesticide ban ...
Finding genetic disorders in patients during studies presents prickly ethical questions
Back in 2020, Cristen Willer, a professor of cardiovascular medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, was leading ...
GMO 25-year safety endorsement: 280 science institutions, more than 3,000 studies
Despite vehement public debate, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that GE foods present no greater risk than non-GMO crops, ...
‘The seductive allure of neuroscience’: Why psychology is not the sum of your brain parts
Few of us care for the technical details of how molecules and electrical charges in the brain give rise to ...
GLP Podcast: 10 ‘stupid’ food memes; COVID drugs are here; What makes someone a narcissist?
People believe a lot of nonsense about food and farming; let's debunk the top-10 worst of these "truisms." The FDA ...
Ongoing dispute over the origins of COVID-19 raises a prickly question: Should consensus play a role in science?
After having been told for over a year that there was a scientific consensus that Covid had a natural origin ...
Viewpoint: If you seriously care about threats posed by climate change, steer clear of organic farming
Reporters like to lecture the public about the importance of science while promoting obviously unscientific ideas when it suits them ...
US eclipses Europe as global Omicron hot spot
There are already early signs in hospitalization and ICU data that the experience of Omicron in America may be harsher ...
The social history of the concept of the mixed-race mestizo
In Mexico [most people] think of themselves as mestizos, a term that emerged during the colonial period to explain the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Collective failure’ — US government agencies issued confusing and conflicting messages as COVID crisis unfolded
What originally was 10 days of isolation after initial contact with someone who tested positive for COVID has turned into ...
‘All animal species have a beginning and an end’: Richard Leakey’s legacy in shaping ‘conservation politics’
Richard Leakey, paleoanthropologist, conservationist and Kenyan political leader, died January 2 at his home near Nairobi. His expeditions discovered hundreds ...
‘AI doesn’t have to be sentient to kill us all’: 6 ways artificial intelligence can go very wrong
As Malcolm Murdock, machine-learning engineer and author of the 2019 novel The Quantum Price, puts it, “AI doesn’t have to ...
Honoring E.O. Wilson, who bested Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin in his defense of sociobiology
A superb naturalist who enjoyed challenging dogma, [Edward Wilson] fought for conservation, brought ideas of biodiversity into the mainstream and ...
