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How to persuade vaccine reluctant to get a shot? Run a Donald Trump vaccine endorsement ad
An online ad campaign featuring former president Donald Trump boosted vaccination rates in counties where rates of Covid-19 shots were ...
GLP Podcast: ‘Cancel’ culture comes for science outreach; Activism blocks avian flu solution; CRISPR-edited cats?
A major university recently halted a science outreach event because the invited speakers were white men. Has so-called "cancel culture" ...
Is humanity doomed because our population is growing too fast — or too slow? Here’s the skinny on human catastrophe scenarios
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‘Meat the Future’: Jane Goodall-narrated documentary explores future of cell-grown ‘clean meat’
In Meat the Future, streaming on most major platforms starting this week, we meet a team of scientists led by cardiac ...
Farm student addresses concerns raised about GMO crops and food
As the population continues to grow, more and more people are living in urban areas that lack, or do not ...
Part II: The Clean 18 — USDA finds almost no pesticide-related health concerns from fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, while data on organic food is lacking
The purpose of the following section is to explore commodity to commodity differences by a variety of measures and not ...
Malawi farmers claim 100% yield boost using insect-resistant Bt cotton
The National Commission for Science and Technology (NCST) says Bt cotton – a genetically modified variety – has improved farmers’ ...
Part I: The Clean 18 — Challenging Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen scare survey of pesticide residues on conventional fruits and vegetables
The recent release of the “Dirty Dozen List” by the organic-industry-funded Environmental Working Group has stirred up its annual hornets’ ...
How physician and biochemist Robert Malone went from falsely claiming to have invented the mRNA vaccine to becoming an infamous spreader of COVID disinformation
Dr. [Robert] Malone spent decades working in academic centers and with start-ups seeking to bring new medical treatments to market ...
Viewpoint: FDA appears to be steamrolling own experts in authorizing fourth COVID vaccine dose
The Food and Drug Administration last week authorized Americans 50 and over to get a fourth Covid vaccine dose. Some ...
Viewpoint: Is science white or black? Politically-correct censorship targeting whites and supporters of biotechnology invade academia
North Carolina State University recently cancelled a science-outreach event because the invited speakers have the wrong skin color. It's another ...
Viewpoint: Why scientists and health experts believe you can ignore the Environmental Working Groups’s Dirty Dozen list
[The Center for Food Safety just released its 2022 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce ‘Dirty Dozen’ list of ‘unsafe’ ...
Viewpoint: There is a solution to the devastating poultry pandemic – but anti-technology activist groups and outdated regulations are blocking it
The bulldozer belches black smoke into the air, an engine revving with extra effort to push a hill of feathered ...
Even COVID researchers were not insulated from harassment and death threats
Nearly 2 in 5 Covid-19 researchers reported they had been harassed since the pandemic began, according to a new survey ...
Viewpoint: ‘Race’ and racism are foundational prejudices in medicine
Abolition has been part of the American democratic experiment since the founding of this nation — a founding premised in ...
Viewpoint: Are science journalists intentionally misreporting on COVID origins?
Two hypotheses have long been on the table. One is that the virus jumped naturally from some animal host, as ...
Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?
“Could THIS twice-daily probiotic supplement filled with gut friendly bacteria help beat Long Covid?” That’s the headline in the Daily ...
Modified: Destigmatizing GMOs one bite at a time
“GMOs have been unfairly stigmatized, haven’t they?” Thus spoke a man in his 30s, a sympathetic expression on his face, ...
WHO says Pfizer vaccine anecdotally linked to tinnitus hearing loss
The World Health Organization is examining rare reports of hearing loss and other auditory issues following Covid-19 vaccinations. In a ...
GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked
Last week, French activist group Extinction Rebellion destroyed 15,000 tons of wheat to prove its anti-GMO bona fides. The grain ...
Viewpoint: To persuade the public that GM foods are safe, advocates need to focus on scientifically confirmed health benefits
Ever since the first GM food was introduced, the debate about the risks of releasing GM crops has been substantial ...
How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy
Misinformation is rampant on social media. The science community has spent most of the last two years trying to slow ...
Controversial study claiming vitamin C can cure sepsis suspected fraudulent
The data underpinning an infamous study of vitamin C for sepsis may be fraudulent, according to an analysis by an ...
Is mainstream media open to constructive conversations on GMOs and crop biotechnology?
Although nearly three decades have passed since genetically modified crops (so-called ‘GMOs’) were widely commercialized, vociferous debate remains about the ...
Viewpoint: What is ‘abolition medicine’ — and why we must address racism in embedded in our healthcare system
Racial violence is a public health crisis. Several organizations, including the American Medical Association (AMA) and the American Public Health ...
Here’s the story of Barbara Ann Richards, a pioneer for the trans movement — in the 1940s
On July 1, 1941, a 29-year-old interior decorator walked into a Los Angeles courthouse and filed a request that vanishingly ...
Video: Food fight — Inside the battle over public perception of GMOs
Imagine being able to prevent childhood blindness with rice. No, this isn’t a biblical miracle. It’s the reality of genetically ...
