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‘Monsatan’ resurrected: Washington Post bungles review of misguided (and erroneous) new book
What better time than the Halloween season to indulge anxieties about mortality and its discontents and give running room to ...
COVID ‘Doctors of Death’: Should physicians who peddle coronavirus and vaccine disinformation face consequences for their followers’ injuries or deaths?
Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that covid-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people ...
Borax bath can ‘undo’ COVID vaccine? Osteopath with tens of thousands followers spreads latest disinformation tip
As vaccine mandates sweep the nation, more individuals who were once hesitant to get vaccinated for Covid-19 are buckling down ...
Going GMO-free? Why rejecting biotechnology leads to environmental and financial losses
Challenges associated with supplying society with food have evolved from additional innovation and continual innovation will be required to meet ...
GLP Podcast: Monsanto owns farmers? Evolution of pet parenting; Soylent abandons GMO advocacy
Does Monsanto control the seeds Mexico's farmers can grow? No, but anti-GMO groups do. An increasing number of Americans don't ...
Vaccine opponents often cite concerns about new mRNA technology. Can science dispel those fears?
Thanks to Moderna’s and Pfizer’s highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, “messenger RNA” has become a household term — and a source ...
Genetic and hormonal factors may explain why COVID deaths are more common among men
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in the United States, women account for 45.6 percent ...
‘Opting for what feels safe rather than what is safe’: Why are many pregnant women brushing off advice to get COVID vaccines?
At least 200 pregnant people have died of COVID-19, including 22 in August alone; nearly 23,000 have been hospitalized. Newborns ...
Seed Speaks Video: Getting beyond the myth that synthetic pesticides do more harm than good
With questions about sustainability and safety from consumers, and efficacy and longevity from farmers, pesticides have many questions that need ...
Is ‘natural immunity’ superior to vaccine-induced protection?
What began as a viral TikTok hashtag has infected every social media platform: Many of the proudly unvaccinated now identify ...
GLP Podcast: Science ‘flip-flops’; Pig-to-human organ transplants; Glyphosate lawsuits and tort reform
An expert advisory panel recently revised the decades-old recommendation to take aspirin daily to prevent a first heart attack or ...
Part 2: The hypocrisy of opponents of genetic engineering of food
Logic would dictate that those who are opposed to using gene engineering (GE) in all its forms to grow crops ...
Same vaccine, different outcomes: COVID shot rollouts are saving lives — but some countries are benefiting more than others
While it's clear vaccines led to a drop in fatalities during the most recent delta variant-driven waves compared with earlier ...
‘The inscrutability of organic status’: Are you getting what you pay for when you buy food with an organic label?
[Editor’s note: In this article, the New Yorker documents a large-scale fraudulent organic scheme in the U.S. They chart a ...
Viewpoint: New York state legislators ignore the science in rush to embrace erroneous bee-apocalypse claims
We all remember the adage “Save the Bees!” that scientists and beekeepers have promoted. It animated environmental activists for a ...
Once an ardent GMO promoter, Soylent no longer touts the role of genetic engineering in making its drinks
Few food companies over the past decade have voluntarily promoted the use of genetic engineering on their labels. After all, ...
Viewpoint: Animal genetic selection will likely be embraced by public — but gene editing could face resistance from activist GMO opponents
Animal biotechnology is the application of recombinant DNA techniques to animals. Genetic engineering and cloning are two older forms of ...
GLP Podcast: ‘Fashionable nonsense’ in medicine; Strange history of pregnancy tests; Bayer goes organic
Medicine is bowing to academia's "fashionable nonsense" surrounding a variety of important issues, and the consequences could be serious. Home ...
Exxon partnership hopes to turn algae into fuel. Is it a potential climate change breakthrough — or just greenwashing?
Some scientists regard Exxon Mobil Corp.’s long-running quest to turn algae into a transportation fuel as little more than a ...
COVID misinformation epidemic: Nearly 80% of Americans believe or are unsure about at least one false claim about the coronavirus
Misinformation about health care topics is nothing new, but social media, the polarization of news sources, and the pace of ...
Podcast: Prof Kevin Folta profiles Jeffrey Smith, a leading purveyor of crop biotechnology disinformation often cited by anti-biotech advocacy groups
We must be dedicated to fighting back against false information in food and medicine. Jeffery Smith is a personality with ...
Daily Beast investigation: Conspiracy-spreading anti-GMO group USRTK — founded and funded by anti-vaxxers — is New York Times and The Guardian’s favored source on crop biotechnology
Research from the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know has undergirded New York Times reporting on the food system, and outlets ...
‘Dear Christians’: Newsmax rebukes own correspondent after Tweet falsely claiming COVID vaccines contain ‘bioluminescent tracker’
Right-wing news network Newsmax distanced itself from one of its top reporters [November 4] after she tweeted a bizarre false ...
‘It is hype and bullshit’: Scientist challenges claims that pig-to-human xenotransplantation is close to realization
Steve Holtzman was awoken by a 1 a.m. call from a doctor at Duke University asking if he could put ...
Viewpoint: European politicians seem hell-bent on undermining sustainable farming
As Members of the European Parliament meet... to discuss how violently to continue Brussels’ attack on European farmers and consumers, ...
Viewpoint: Can pseudoscience feed us? — Indian sustainability expert challenges anti-ag biotechnology activists
The internet is swamped with myths, misconceptions, half-truth, and baseless claims propagated by several entities (unqualified individuals in the guise ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable nonsense’ — The deadly impact of ‘kowtowing to academia’s political zeitgeist’ in biomedicine
In August 2018, The Lancet published a curious paper, reminiscent of America’s long-forgotten Prohibition Era. The research came to a ...