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‘Cell-based meat grows like a tumor’: A new ad campaign targeting cultivated meat industry criticized as ‘deceptive and unscientific’

Matt Reynolds | 
A new public information campaign against cultivated—or “lab-grown”—meat is being run by a group with close links to a controversial ...
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Patenting plants: Here’s why the oft-criticized system enables innovation

Nazimi Açıkgöz | 
Intellectual property rights can be classified as copyrights and industrial property rights. Copyrights cover intellectual and artistic works. Industrial property ...
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How China’s decision to aggressively expand GMO soybean planting and imports is reshaping geopolitical trade and food wars

Genevieve Donnellon-May | 
China’s recent decision to expand the pilot planting of genetically modified soybeans has the potential to reshape the global soybean ...
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GLP podcast/video: Yes, BPA is safe; ‘Fake sugar’ promotes real weight loss; How long does it take to develop a pesticide?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
A decades-long campaign alleges that BPA, a chemical used to manufacture many plastic products, is dangerous. There is no evidence ...
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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 ...
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Mother Jones joins science-literate chorus criticizing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bungled critique of GMOs and glyphosate

Kiera Butler | 
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines for doctors fielding parents’ questions about the risks of foods containing genetically modified ...
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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?

Cameron English | 
Genetically enhanced (GE) crops, pesticides, and fertilizers have fueled an explosion in food production over the last six decades. Following ...
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Viewpoint: Nobel laureates and 1,000 other scientists plead with European parliamentarians to ‘reject the darkness of anti-science fearmongering’ over gene editing

Mark Lynas | 
As the European Parliament prepares for a key vote on gene editing regulations next week, an open letter signed by 35 Nobel ...
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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?

Nicole Keller | 
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

Video: 10 of the most prominent anti-vaccine celebrities, from Jim Carrey to Jenny McCarthy

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Why do many celebrities reject science? Watch the video below to find out which Hollywood stars are anti-vaccine. 1. Jenna ...
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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’.  ...
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GLP podcast/video: Lab-grown meat divides scientists; The rise of ‘Big Weed’; American Academy of Pediatrics goes anti-GMO?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Sustainable agriculture advocates are split over the potential benefits of cell-based meat. Why are these longtime allies divided over this ...
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Viewpoint: Organic farming and sustainable agriculture are often in conflict. Here’s why

Hank Campbell | 
hen it comes to denying science, California leads America, and sometimes the world. In early 2020, for example, when the ...
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European organic farming pioneer on why agricultural sustainability supporters need to drop their opposition to gene edited crops

Joost van Kasteren | 
For years, as director of the Swiss Research Institute for Organic Agriculture (FiBL), Urs Niggli fought against the genetic modification ...
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African scientists challenge activist claims that crop biotechnology revolution spreading across Africa threatens continent’s plant biodiversity 

Richard Wetaya | 
Do genetically modified (GM) pose a threat to the Africa’s plant biodiversity? ...
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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

David Zaruk, Kathleen Hefferon | 
The Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) an ideologically-focused research groups funded by ‘dark money’ support from the organic industry and ...
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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 ...
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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

David Zaruk, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Until the 1990s, research was often low-budget, done in government agencies or industry funded. But as universities acquired expensive analytical ...
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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

Tulip Naksompop Blauw | 
Speaking in an exclusive interview to The Nation, Dr Sir Richard J Roberts, Nobel Prize winner for medicine in 1993, ...
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Just 27% of Americans think genetically modified foods are safe to eat. It’s time to set the record straight

Jamie Ducharme | 
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

Is Bill Gates a global agriculture puppet master? Indian fact-checking site unmasks anti-biotechnology ‘environmentalists’ as source for fake claims

Aditi Gangal | 
No, the statement that Bill Gates instructed world governments to replace real food with genetically modified alternatives to combat global ...
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Phony Whistleblower Gambit: This is how far some environmental activist groups are willing to go to corrupt science for money and ideological gain

Cameron English | 
Environmental activists rely on several go-to tactics when fomenting fear of pesticides. One of their favorite methods is recruiting fake ...
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Viewpoint: Tech Panic Cycle — AI could transform entertainment, education, health care, unless over wrought fears shut down innovation

Daniel Castro, Patrick Grady | 
Recent developments in artificial intelligence (AI) have heightened imaginations about what the future holds ...
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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’

Henry Miller | 
It is bad enough when unqualified pundits offer dumb opinions about science, but bad legislation can cause real damage. The COVID ...
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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 ...
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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

David Zaruk | 
In the introduction to this Firebreak series on how foundations fund activists, I noted there were a wide variety of foundations: ...
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Another lesson from the news coverage of COVID: How poorly-written headlines can adversely impact the lives of readers

Henry Miller | 
Two friends independently emailed me a recent article from CNN’s website with this headline, which prompted both to ask whether they should ...
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