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Using genetics and social media to find answers for rare ‘undiagnosed’ diseases

Liz Lewis | 
Having a strange and little-known condition is increasingly becoming a regular part of life, bonding patients together with a common ...
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Whispering down the ‘fake news’ lane targeting conventional farming: No, Lou Gehrig’s Disease not caused by pesticides spread by chemical-spraying airplanes

Kevin Folta | 
Is it sensationalism to get traffic, lazy reporting -- or intentional misrepresentation of facts? ...
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Oxford zoologists: Insect decline studies could erode confidence in science if not held to rigorous standards

Clive Hambler, Peter Henderson | 
Global rates of insect decline will be very hard to measure. Conclusions regarding drivers and rates of declines can be ...
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Research integrity, and why bad science in biomedicine and agriculture has become such a problem

Henry Miller, Stanley Young | 
Science depends on corroboration — that is, researchers verify others’ results, often making incremental advances as they do so.  The ...
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Video: How we fool ourselves into fearing our food—and how to stop

Jack Bobo | 
Pesticides, chemicals, cancer - the world is a scary place and our dinner plate even more so. Or so it ...
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Buy local; save the bees; avoid GMOs: Americans’ top food-related causes

For companies to successfully fulfill [consumer demand for transparency], they need to be in tune to what causes and concerns ...
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Viewpoint: Clif Bar is ‘concern trolling’ competition with its organic food propaganda

Clif Bar published an open letter [March 6] to their “largest competitor” in the New York Times. The letter asks ...
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USDA bioengineered labeling rules reignite GMO transparency debate

Sean Pratt | 
Farm groups and food companies are pleased with a new United States labeling law governing genetically modified organisms, but non-GMO ...
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FDA, USDA announce formal agreement to tag team lab-grown meat regulation

Kimberly Leonard | 
Two government agencies will team up to regulate the emerging market of lab-grown meat, the Trump administration announced [March 7]. The Food ...
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Viewpoint: Many organic farmers aren’t anti-GMO, and they’re tired of ‘meaningless’ food labels

Michelle Miller | 
[In February], I attended the MOSES Organic Farming Conference, the largest such gathering in the U.S., with thousands of people in ...
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PR battle between biotech industry, anti-GMO activists could determine fate of CRISPR gene-edited crops

Rebecca Harris | 
In the grocery store of the future, consumers might shop for tomatoes with the spiciness of a chili pepper....and bread ...
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What should we call lab-grown meat? Our decision could help or hinder food innovation

Garland West | 
The Dirt: We need protein as part of a healthy diet— and many of us turn to meat as a ...
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Biotech experts say gene-edited plants will yield greater benefits than GMOs or conventional crops

Rim Lassoued | 
Here we present the results of an expert survey on the added potential benefits of genome-edited crops compared to those ...
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Viewpoint: Sri Lanka’s glyphosate-kidney disease scare illustrates why science, not politics, should dictate public health policy

Nalaka Gunawardene | 
On Feb. 4, the [American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)] announced that “two public health researchers who battled powerful ...
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African biotech scientist challenges activist opposition to Bt pest-resistant cowpea, Nigeria’s first GMO crop

Nkechi Isaac | 
Cowpea is one of the most important indigenous African legumes in Nigeria due to its ability to grow in drought-prone ...
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UN report warning of ‘disappearing’ biodiversity raises unjustified alarms about food security, agronomist argues

André Heitz | 
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations has just published a voluminous report, The State of the World ‘s Biodiversity for ...
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Dear Anheuser-Busch, stop scaring people about alleged dangers of corn products to sell Bud Light

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
Anheuser-Busch caused quite a farm controversy with its Bud Light Super Bowl commercials. Remember, Bud Light bragged in those commercials ...
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Food companies can boost public trust in GMOs by engaging consumers, marketing researcher says

Rhonda Brooks | 
Sixty-two percent of U.S. consumers say the fewer ingredients a food product contains the healthier it must be to eat ...
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Video: Think ‘Non-GMO Project Verified’ foods are GMO free? Think again

Did you ever wonder why products with the Non-GMO Project label don’t say “contains zero GMOs” or “GMO-free”? It’s because ...
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Biotech industry, USDA hype CRISPR gene-editing benefits to avoid second GMO safety debate

Liz Crampton | 
The U.S. agriculture industry is trying to get ahead of any backlash over gene-edited foods and win over the public ...
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‘Factory farming’ poisons our food and harms animals?

Cameron English, Leah Dorman | 
Veterinarian Dr. Leah Dorman takes on popular myths about animal agriculture ...
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From pesticide scare stories to insect ‘extinction,’ reporters are addicted to ‘pseudoscience,’ says science writer Matt Ridley

Matt Ridley | 
Three times in [February 2019], pseudo-science flew around the world before the scientific truth had got its boots on (as ...
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Mississippi may ban use of ‘meat’ labels on lab-grown protein, citing need to maintain ‘truthful advertising’

Jeff Amy | 
Mississippi lawmakers have real fears about "fake meat," and the state could become the latest to ban food made from ...
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US ambassador urges British public to reject protectionist ‘smears’ against American agriculture

Robert Johnson | 
[The first week of March] the United States published our objectives for a future trade deal with the UK. We are ...
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Viewpoint: Monsanto’s Roundup is safe, but PR battle to defend weed killer may be lost cause

Daniel Jacobs | 
Let me state for the record. I believe glyphosate to be perfectly safe. There have been hundreds of studies by ...
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Judge dismisses plant geneticist Kevin Folta’s defamation lawsuit against New York Times

Jeffrey Schweers | 
A University of Florida horticulture professor known for his scientific defense of genetically modified foods lost his defamation suit against ...
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Breaking down the ‘scientific and statistical sins’ behind reporting on marijuana science

Dave Levitan | 
A new book and New Yorker feature are filled with cherry-picked data, oversimplified studies, and scientific errors ...
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