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Managing grief: How science can help guide end of life discussions with children
Children may not ask questions indicative of an existential crisis. They often ask very practical questions: What happens after we ...
Health and autonomy: How COVID has challenged already-tenuous balance among public health, religion and personal values
Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. At the time, 118,000 cases and 4,000 deaths ...
In the Battle to Regulate GMOS, Gene Editing and other New Breeding Techniques, Who Has ‘Hazard Blood’ on their Hands?
This third segment in the mini-series will look at the networks of highly-motivated campaigners manipulating policy and pushing the hazard-based ...
Viewpoint: Why commercializing GMOs would help Ghana and the rest of Africa address food shortages
A research scientist, Dr. Richard Ampadu-Ameyaw, has indicated that genetically modified organisms (GMOs) have played major roles in addressing challenges ...
Viewpoint: Groupthink — How the COVID pandemic made scientists into politicians, with equally loyal followers
Now that we are returning to political and social normalcy, we must recognize how we succumbed to an unseemly creeping ...
By 2050, there will be 10 billion people to feed. To meet the challenge, we need all technologies on deck — including molecular biology and genetic engineering
30 years of scientific progress on gene editing, countless studies involving dialogue with society, thousands of forums and debates for ...
Viewpoint: Shining future promised by gene therapy blocked by researchers who refuse to share data
Transparency in gene therapy research — which can be accomplished without compromising commercial prospects — is vital to success. One ...
Viewpoint: Why we must ‘learn to love genetically modified crops’
For decades, human consumption of genetically modified organisms has inspired misbegotten fear in consumers because few of us understand the ...
Viewpoint: Reject anti-technology hyperbole — High-yield, intensive farming, agricultural sustainability and nature conversation can co-exist
By re-purposing the less productive agricultural land and creating farmland bird friendly habitat, songbird numbers doubled while arable crop yields ...
Survey: Younger consumers open to trying foods crafted by gene editing
Consumers under age 30 and consumers with incomes above $125,000 a year are less likely to avoid gene-edited foods, meaning ...
Whole Foods Magazine joins the ‘let’s peddle anti-GMO disinformation scare stories’ movement
Whole Foods Magazine published a June story titled GMOs: Basics to Know. “Although GMOs have been deemed safe,” the author alleged, ...
Almost 20 million: That’s how many lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines, experts believe
COVID-19 vaccination “fundamentally altered” the pandemic by saving nearly 20 million lives in the first year that vaccines were available, ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ scaremongering — Consumers reject fear-based environmentalist disinformation
Consumers encounter so many mixed messages on produce, ranging from the Dirty Dozen‘s disinformation to the just-eat-your-veggies slogan. How do we ...
Glyphosate detected in 80% of urine? Reason for alarm or deceptive data distortion?
Vilifying the safe herbicide glyphosate has been a long-time proxy for attacking modern conventional agriculture. Sold under the brand name ...
Australia mulls use of ‘controversial’ gene drives to rid country of feral cats
Synthetic biology and genetic technology could be a safer, more humane way of curbing invasive species. Feral cat populations, for ...
Viewpoint: ‘Depression and now anarchy’ — How rejecting agricultural technology and vanity of ‘green’, organic farming led to Sri Lanka’s collapse
The anarchic scenes in Sri Lanka are enough to make the blood of any world leader run cold. President Gotabaya ...
Viewpoint: Solved! Busting pro-organic, anti-GMO myths
Over the years, we have experienced a massive increase in the consumption of organic foods, with many people painting conventional ...
Viewpoint: Our binary system of classifying what’s ‘cancerous’ fails. Here’s what might replace it
Concern over substances that may cause cancer has led to various classification schemes to recognize carcinogenic threats and provide a ...
Viewpoint: France’s Le Monde leads media frenzy hyping flawed study claiming trace pesticide residues wipe out benefits of eating fruits and vegetables
A recent study suggested that pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables could counteract some of the nutritional benefits of consuming ...
‘43% lower yields’: Challenging common wisdom, organic farming is ‘less efficient, more expensive, and worse for the environment’
Consumers are misled about the alleged benefits of organic farming. Organic food is thought to be healthier (it isn’t) and ...
Viewpoint: Is science itself at the heart of infodemic plaguing ‘misinformation culture’?
It’s all too easy to make outsize claims that sidestep the process of peer review. Misinformation and disinformation often start ...
Many parents reluctant to get their young children vaccinated are not Republican anti-vaccine science rejectionists
More than a decade before the coronavirus pandemic, I began researching how parents decide to reject recommended vaccines for their children ...
What’s the most effective way to convince unvaccinated people to get a shot? Funny memes
Pro-vaccination messaging may be surprisingly effective when delivered through humorous internet memes, according to new findings published in the journal ...
Viewpoint: What are the keys to full consumer acceptance of food grown from genetically modified seeds?
“Bioengineered and gene-edited foods might be more successful in the marketplace if they have visual disclosure on the package (the ...
Viewpoint: Regenerative agriculture has become a popular buzzword. Here’s what needs to be done for it to become a transformative, sustainable movement
There isn’t a standard definition for regenerative agriculture, but it represents a holistic framework to understand and respond to global ...
Appeal to nature: Daily Kos Logical Fallacies Bootcamp dismantles myth that natural products are automatically better for us
The argument is a simple one, and one that you’ve probably come across before. It runs along these lines: X is ...
Viewpoint: ‘The true Charles Darwin was neither the atheist’s hero nor the fundamentalists’ parody’
Darwin was a convinced and convicted monogenist because his family, the Wedgewoods, were deeply devout Bible believers who supported and ...
