Ag Biotech Communications
Viewpoint: Can we trust corporate ‘regenerative farming’ pledges?
People latch onto words and then casually throw them around like they know what it means. The most common — ...
Viewpoint: Ideology not science — Here’s why NBC News’ factually inaccurate reporting on the ‘dangers’ of the weedkiller glyphosate sets a dangerous precedent
What happens when an online information resource leans into clickbait? It’s annoying but generally harmless entertainment. When it’s a resource ...
University scientist challenges UN’s IARC to embrace current science by evaluating chemicals using ‘risk’ not just ‘hazard’ standards
The latest International Association for Research on Cancer (IARC) Monograph Program report on cancer hazards associated with firefighting work, which ...
Fact check: Associated Press debunks social media claims that GMO corn can cause cancer
Social media users in recent days have falsely claimed genetically modified corn isn’t safe because it’s been found to cause ...
Viewpoint: King Charles’ resistance to crop biotechnology has been a royal pain. Can the former ‘Dunce of Wales’ shuck organic propaganda and embrace sustainable agriculture?
King Charles III has repeatedly demonstrated some of the pitfalls of the inbreeding that has plagued the royal families of ...
Viewpoint: How reporters regularly botch food nutrition studies
We've reached a point where you must assume everything the media says about nutrition is false. This is a drastic ...
Winning streak: After losing first 3 glyphosate-cancer cases, here’s how Bayer has convinced juries in 5 recent cases that the weedkiller is not harmful to humans
Bayer is on a winning streak as it battles the remaining cases targeting its Roundup weedkiller, a change after several ...
Video: Viewpoint — Is challenging obese people to lose weight fat shaming?
Has the body positivity movement gone too far? That's the question Dr. Phil posed to me and five other panelists ...
Viewpoint: European Greens defend organic policy, claim genetic engineering causes ‘uncontrollable, unintended and unsafe mutations’ in food — but this does not hold up to decades of evidence
A very dry summer alongside a low supply of fertilizer and energy spikes have created the perfect storm for the ...
Viewpoint: Lawyers spend hundreds of millions of dollars on pushing ‘inaccurate and baseless claims’ about common products like Roundup and talcum powder
Plaintiffs’ lawyers are relying more and more on traditional and social media to bolster litigation, often pushing inaccurate and baseless ...
Viewpoint: Daily Wire’s Candace Owens rolls out ludicrous conspiracy diatribe vilifying mainstream media, COVID vaccines and Bill Gates’ biotechnology advocacy
Candace Owens: This is a headline in Evie magazine. The World Economic Forum wants to make you allergic to beef ...
Viewpoint: Toxicologist explains why we should be grateful for chemicals — and the safety labels that come with them
Everyone needs to drink dihydrogen monoxide (yep that’s water) or at least drink other fluids that contain a lot of ...
Larding the word ‘overweight’? Social activist post-modernists target ’obesity’ as unnecessarily judgmental
Once the social justice movement began its rampage through our culture, it was only a matter of time before it ...
Viewpoint: Media hypocrisy — ‘What makes oil companies’ climate change disinformation different from ‘backward progressives’ GMO rejectionist campaigns?’
The media often has difficulty deciding what counts as obvious disinformation or falsehoods. But supposed disinformation about climate change is ...
Viewpoint: Will King Charles abandon his kooky ideas about agriculture and help accelerate Britain’s embrace of sustainable biotechnology tools?
England is in crisis. They lost a beloved figurehead this month but for decades prior were losing scientific ground. If ...
Health and wellness manipulation: 10 ways behavior-savvy companies sell their products
In an effort to cut through the noise and capture your limited attention, marketing companies often invoke the logical fallacy—an ...
Nestle, General Mills, PepsiCo and other food companies have pledged support for regenerative agriculture. Is this a greenwashing campaign?
According to a new report by the non-profit Forum for the Future, the regenerative agriculture movement in the U.S. has ...
Gender and consciousness: ‘If you woke up tomorrow without a body, would you be able to guess your gender?’
Here’s a question I’ve been pitting to friends and family this last month: if tomorrow you woke up without a ...
TikTok fact check: No, malaria-fighting GMO mosquitoes released in Florida are not a vector for ‘Bill Gates’ next planned pandemic’
Claims that the Bill Gates-funded company Oxitec is responsible for a paralyzing mosquito-borne virus spreading through Florida have recently circulated ...
Podcast: Biden’s pro-biotech executive order; Vaccine mandates backfire; Courts v junk science
President Biden just signed an executive order promising substantial investment in the "bioeconomy." What impact will the proposal have on ...
Q&A on the future of versatile mRNA-based vaccine development
Robert Langer, ScD, is the David H. Koch Institute professor at MIT and a co-founder of Moderna, the pharmaceutical company ...
Activists love to cite Einstein quote that without bees, life on Earth would soon perish. Snopes fact checking finds ideologues made it up
In 2002, Snopes came across a quote about bees’ importance to the global ecosystem that the Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist Albert ...
Viewpoint: Agri-bashing — How European Green Party groups have evolved into unscientific propagandists
“The organic lobby exists in Brussels, it has a storefront and is called Ifoam”, admits the environmental activist Martin Pigeon, ...
Viewpoint: Bureaucracy building or real research and regulatory reform — Can Biden turn a proclamation to spur biotechnology innovation in health, energy and agriculture into actionable projects?
President Biden has published an “Executive Order on Advancing Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing Innovation for a Sustainable, Safe, and Secure American ...
‘Power-hungry meglomaniac’ promoting ‘philanthrocapitalism’: In fundraising pitches, anti-GMO activist groups blast Bill Gates’ renewed commitment to promoting biotechnology to address food shortages and climate change
By spending billions on agriculture projects in African countries, Gates is attempting to launch another Green Revolution — one that prioritizes industrial methods like ...
Podcast: Exercise builds gut health; US blocking COVID origins investigation? ‘Natural’ food is a scam
Keeping the microbes living in your gut healthy is important to your overall well-being, and recent research suggests that regular ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how post-truth tactics became central to the anti-biotechnology playbook
Most of us are familiar with the propaganda aimed at glyphosate, the active ingredient in Roundup. For years, activists pushed ...