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‘Cell-based meat grows like a tumor’: A new ad campaign targeting cultivated meat industry criticized as ‘deceptive and unscientific’
A new public information campaign against cultivated—or “lab-grown”—meat is being run by a group with close links to a controversial ...
Patenting plants: Here’s why the oft-criticized system enables innovation
Intellectual property rights can be classified as copyrights and industrial property rights. Copyrights cover intellectual and artistic works. Industrial property ...
How China’s decision to aggressively expand GMO soybean planting and imports is reshaping geopolitical trade and food wars
China’s recent decision to expand the pilot planting of genetically modified soybeans has the potential to reshape the global soybean ...
GLP podcast/video: Yes, BPA is safe; ‘Fake sugar’ promotes real weight loss; How long does it take to develop a pesticide?
A decades-long campaign alleges that BPA, a chemical used to manufacture many plastic products, is dangerous. There is no evidence ...
Swiss consumers are more resistant to gene-edited crops than Americans. What could change the status quo?
This study investigated what consumers from the United States of America (i.e., a country where gene technology is legal and ...
Mother Jones joins science-literate chorus criticizing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bungled critique of GMOs and glyphosate
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines for doctors fielding parents’ questions about the risks of foods containing genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: Are corporations and Western countries shackling African agriculture to suit their interests, as anti-GMO groups claim? Or are the activists doing the shackling?
Genetically enhanced (GE) crops, pesticides, and fertilizers have fueled an explosion in food production over the last six decades. Following ...
Viewpoint: Nobel laureates and 1,000 other scientists plead with European parliamentarians to ‘reject the darkness of anti-science fearmongering’ over gene editing
As the European Parliament prepares for a key vote on gene editing regulations next week, an open letter signed by 35 Nobel ...
Viewpoint: Science or scare-mongering? How many pieces of misinformation can you find in this disgraceful American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) attack on GMO crops and glyphosate?
On Dec 11, 2023, a clinical report titled, “Use of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) – Containing Food Products in Children” ...
Video: 10 of the most prominent anti-vaccine celebrities, from Jim Carrey to Jenny McCarthy
Why do many celebrities reject science? Watch the video below to find out which Hollywood stars are anti-vaccine. 1. Jenna ...
Are children and pregnant women risking their health by eating “GMO” foods? The American Association of Pediatrics controversially says ‘yes’. The real question: Is the AAP endangering the food vulnerable?
Are foods grown using genetically modified seeds hazardous to our health? Scientists, nutritionists and the global medical establishment say ‘no’. ...
GLP podcast/video: Lab-grown meat divides scientists; The rise of ‘Big Weed’; American Academy of Pediatrics goes anti-GMO?
Sustainable agriculture advocates are split over the potential benefits of cell-based meat. Why are these longtime allies divided over this ...
Viewpoint: Organic farming and sustainable agriculture are often in conflict. Here’s why
hen it comes to denying science, California leads America, and sometimes the world. In early 2020, for example, when the ...
European organic farming pioneer on why agricultural sustainability supporters need to drop their opposition to gene edited crops
For years, as director of the Swiss Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Urs Niggli fought against the genetic modification ...
African scientists challenge activist claims that crop biotechnology revolution spreading across Africa threatens continent’s plant biodiversity
Do genetically modified (GM) pose a threat to the Africa’s plant biodiversity? ...
Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology, pro-organic dark money web — Tort lawyer-funded, Charles Benbrook-created Heartland Health Research Alliance co-opts academic and government institutions to subvert independent science
The Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) an ideologically-focused research groups funded by ‘dark money’ support from the organic industry and ...
American Pediatric Society lambasted by scientists, researchers, GLP’s Jon Entine for promoting scientifically-baseless claim that food grown from genetically modified seeds pose unique dangers to children
Immunologist and microbiologist Andrea Love, Ph.D., recently received a flood of messages from concerned parents and pediatricians. They were all ...
Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology and chemical pseudo-science exposed — Here’s how the ‘dark money’, tort-lawyer funded Heartland Study dupes journalists and co-ops universities
Until the 1990s, research was often low-budget, done in government agencies or industry funded. But as universities acquired expensive analytical ...
Viewpoint: ‘I’m talking about you Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth’ — Nobel Laureate Sr Richard Roberts urges Thailand to reject anti-biotechnology advocacy group fearmongering
Speaking in an exclusive interview to The Nation, Dr Sir Richard J Roberts, Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 1993, ...
Just 27% of Americans think genetically modified foods are safe to eat. It’s time to set the record straight
Thirty years after tomatoes became the first genetically modified produce sold in the U.S., lots of people remain skeptical of science-ified ...
Is Bill Gates a global agriculture puppet master? Indian fact-checking site unmasks anti-biotechnology ‘environmentalists’ as source for fake claims
No, the statement that Bill Gates instructed world governments to replace real food with genetically modified alternatives to combat global ...
Phony Whistleblower Gambit: This is how far some environmental activist groups are willing to go to corrupt science for money and ideological gain
Environmental activists rely on several go-to tactics when fomenting fear of pesticides. One of their favorite methods is recruiting fake ...
Viewpoint: Tech Panic Cycle — AI could transform entertainment, education, health care, unless over wrought fears shut down innovation
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have heightened imaginations about what the future holds ...
Viewpoint: Here’s what happens when legislators pander to activists by over-regulating science and medical practice in an ill-advised effort to ‘protect the public’
It is bad enough when unqualified pundits offer dumb opinions about science, but bad legislation can cause real damage. The COVID ...
Viewpoint: Indian farmers urged to learn from Sri Lanka’s failed environmentalist-led movement to abandon science
One important lesson that Indian farmers must learn is never to believe without trying and applying what others are imposing ...
Viewpoint: While environmentalists and journalists look the other way, anti-vax, pro-organic ‘dark money whore’ US Right to Know partners with organic food and tort lawyer hustlers to undermine science
In the introduction to this Firebreak series on how foundations fund activists, I noted there were a wide variety of foundations: ...
Another lesson from the news coverage of COVID: How poorly-written headlines can adversely impact the lives of readers
Two friends independently emailed me a recent article from CNN’s website with this headline, which prompted both to ask whether they should ...