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Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups peddle anti-biotech propaganda in attempt to discredit NY Times’ endorsement of safe and effective crop biotechnology
For years, the New York Times attacked crop biotechnology on the grounds that it was a corporate ploy hatched by ...
Can vaccine incentives break down COVID shot resistance?
While most people have got their vaccines, a still sizeable minority have not — and motivating them to do so ...
Is a Texas Republican politician’s vaccine denialism responsible for his own death? Here’s how the left and right fueled a partisan firestorm
When H. Scott Apley died at 45 of covid-19, he became a face of vaccine refusal by the political right ...
Podcast: Are we on the edge of an ‘insect apocalypse?’ GLP Founder Jon Entine debunks this pervasive myth
Could we be on the edge of an insect apocalypse — one that results in 'ecological collapse that would break ...
Viewpoint: World’s ‘well, wealthy and worried’ deny the science behind GMOs. Here’s why their opposition is so dangerous
The Well, the Wealthy, and the Worried are the folks who think they can afford to overlook the incredible benefits ...
How the vaccinated have convinced their hesitant loved ones to get a COVID shot
We asked the BuzzFeed Community to share how they convinced the vaccine skeptics in their life to get vaccinated for ...
Viewpoint: ‘Predatorts’ — How activist nonprofits create fear and seed science doubt, generate lawsuits, and distort public policy
Imagine you are a US tort lawyer wanting to extract as much honey from the pot as possible. What do ...
60% of Fox News’ COVID shot segments include vaccine denialism: Media Matters study
Despite Fox News’ public-relations campaign to rebrand its poor vaccine coverage, its reporting has worsened: In a six-week period from ...
Misinformation trifecta: How disinformation spreaders weaponize science
Recently it has become more apparent to me that often there is a common strategy to weaponizing misinformation. It’s likely ...
Viewpoint: IARC — International Agency for Research on Cancer — tries to regroup after blunders on glyphosate and chemical evaluations undermine its former independent reputation
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France was once one of the most respected epidemiology groups in ...
Far right targets recruits to government conspiracy theories from vaccine skeptics
Far-right groups across the nation have aligned themselves with those opposed to masks and vaccines, seeking new allies around the ...
Social media vaccine conspiracists spread false information about alleged COVID shot fertility dangers
Dr. [Michelle] Rockwell, an Oklahoma-based family physician… saw that someone had made a collage of two of her Instagram posts ...
GMO social media battleground: Scientists and farmers using activist tactics to push back on disinformation deluge
Social media has fundamentally changed how we communicate with each other. Much has been written about the negative consequences of ...
VaxTeen: Teenagers are learning how to circumvent their parents’ opposition to COVID vaccines
Among minors, 38% of 16- to 17-year-olds and 25% of 12- to 15-year-olds were fully vaccinated as of July 14, ...
Vaccine hesitant are impervious even to physician persuasion, survey shows
Personal recommendations from doctors may not help revitalize the United States' stalling COVID-19 vaccination drive, a new CBS News/YouGov poll ...
Viewpoint — This osteopath and natural medicine peddler is the most notorious COVID disinformation spreader: Dr. Joseph Mercola
Dr. [Joseph] Mercola, 67, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Fla., has long been a subject of criticism and government ...
Catastrophic claims of an ‘insect armageddon’ misrepresent the science
“The insect apocalypse is here,” said the New York Times in 2018. “Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’,” said ...
Tik Tok and social media influencers join White House campaign to soften vaccine hesitancy
Fewer than half of all Americans age 18 to 39 are fully vaccinated, compared with more than two-thirds of those ...
GLP Podcast: When science isn’t about evidence; Bayer pulling Roundup off retail shelves; Kenya approves GMO cassava
A researcher who challenged the consensus on obesity was blasted in the media by her colleagues. Is this an example ...
Video: Anti-biotechnology activism is blocking our only way to save the Cavendish, the world’s most popular banana
Narrator: Ninety-nine percent of bananas exported to developed countries are just one group called the Cavendish. And the Cavendish is ...
Pseudoscience warning: People who simply ‘trust science’ are likely to spread misinformation
A new study finds that people who trust science are more likely to believe and disseminate false claims containing scientific ...
Fact check: No, 15 countries have not ‘banned’ Monsanto/Bayer, as this exploding Facebook meme claims
Has Monsanto, the agribusiness controversial for its widely used herbicides, been banned in 15 locations? No, that's not true... Glyphosate, ...
GLP podcast: Greenpeace v Golden Rice; Vaccine side effects—myth or reality? Objective truth under fire
The Philippines has finally approved Golden Rice, and Greenpeace is doing everything in its power to reverse the decision. A ...
Misinformation is undermining door-to-door COVID vaccine outreach effort. Here’s how it really works
For local groups working to get people vaccinated, door-knocking and neighborhood canvassing have been a key tool in reaching people ...
COVID fake news chronicles: Here’s a week of denial, distortion and misinformation from the dark side of social media
A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these ...
‘These headlines are so goddamn irresponsible in an incredibly dangerous, cynical way’: Backlash hits NY Times, Washington Post, NBC News for ‘hysterical’ Delta COVID coverage
“Breakthrough Covid cases are on the rise among the vaccinated,” blares a headline on an NBC News article published [July ...
Irrational fears of food irradiation still peddled by ‘environmental’ activists
There is a lot of misunderstanding of the sciences involving food, including genetic engineering, pesticide risks, and the idea that ...
