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Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party
"The truth is, I'm still a registered Democrat," says Del Bigtree, a well-known anti-vaccine activist. Even before COVID-19, he wrote ...
GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA ‘bioengineered’ labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods
The USDA's mandatory bioengineered food labels will begin to appear on many more products next month. What can consumers expect ...
Who shares fake news? This personality type is most likely fall for misinformation
To find solutions to this misinformation crisis, our society needs a clear-eyed assessment of who and what drives the spread ...
Omicron was ‘created’ to distract from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial? New anti-vaccine misinformation floods the internet
False claims about the new variant have leaped across the Internet in the two weeks since it was first identified ...
Viewpoint: For another year in a row, the US scored highest in pandemic preparedness — so why is the country doing so poorly with COVID?
Nearly two years into a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 5 million people, every country, including the United ...
Viewpoint: An argument for CRISPR crops — ‘Very little about modern life is natural — and it’s time we all got over it’
Life goes on as gene-edited foods begin to hit the market. Japanese consumers have recently started buying tomatoes that fight ...
‘Category X’: What’s the science behind asexuality?
“Asexuality is an identity on equal footing with heterosexuality, homosexuality and so on", says Sunniva Árja Tobiasen. She is one ...
What lasting societal changes might COVID spur?
March 2020 to May 2020 almost certainly marked the most significant short-term change ever in worldwide human behavior. Vast sections ...
‘Misinformation kills’: Websites cataloguing unvaccinated people who died from COVID stir controversy
The details of [auto mechanic Nick] Bledsoe’s death and desperation-fueled change of heart stayed largely confined to his Facebook page ...
‘Critical Race Theory’ critics set sights on suicide prevention programs, claiming they ‘indoctrinate’ students
At a September school board meeting in Southlake, Texas, a parent named Tara Eddins strode to the lectern during the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Embracing pseudoscience’ — Who is Joe Rogan, and why are so many people tuning in for his disinformation?
“A lot of times, we’re drinking or we’re high, you know, and I say stupid shit.” Coming from a teenager, ...
Has Scientific American strayed too far from science?
I’ve written about a dozen posts calling out Scientific American for its fulminating wokeness (give me another word if you ...
Republican Senate candidate Dr. Oz has long history of promoting pseudoscience, including anti-GMO disinformation
Among Dr. Mehmet Oz's achievements are ten Emmy awards, a syndicated television show, an Ivy-League medical degree, and a rapport ...
Viewpoint: Why does the latest American Medical Association guide proscribe ‘acceptable’ language?
After Donald Trump took office in 2017, there was a surge of interest among the intellectual left in “1984,” George ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how to respond to anti-biotech activist groups that disguise themselves as food experts
Activist groups and groups disguised as “authorities” on agricultural issues often use manipulative persuasive fear appeals in ways that impacts ...
Viewpoint: Science is now perceived as less about evidence and more about political and ideological tribal identification — and it’s corrupted the left and the right
Over the past 18 months, a number of significant events have occurred that were interpreted through two entirely different worldviews: ...
Will ‘The Dawn of Everything’ rewrite human history, as the book’s authors (modestly) claim?
“The Dawn of Everything” — which weighs in at a whopping 704 pages, including a 63-page bibliography — aims to ...
Vaccine hesitancy plagues war-torn Syria
Idlib is one of the most vulnerable places in the world for infection: an impoverished rebel-controlled province in northwestern Syria ...
‘Monsatan’ resurrected: Washington Post bungles review of misguided (and erroneous) new book
What better time than the Halloween season to indulge anxieties about mortality and its discontents and give running room to ...
COVID ‘Doctors of Death’: Should physicians who peddle coronavirus and vaccine disinformation face consequences for their followers’ injuries or deaths?
Earlier this month, Dr. Rashid Buttar posted on Twitter that covid-19 “was a planned operation” and shared an article alleging that most people ...
Borax bath can ‘undo’ COVID vaccine? Osteopath with tens of thousands followers spreads latest disinformation tip
As vaccine mandates sweep the nation, more individuals who were once hesitant to get vaccinated for Covid-19 are buckling down ...
Going GMO-free? Why rejecting biotechnology leads to environmental and financial losses
Challenges associated with supplying society with food have evolved from additional innovation and continual innovation will be required to meet ...
GLP Podcast: Monsanto owns farmers? Evolution of pet parenting; Soylent abandons GMO advocacy
Does Monsanto control the seeds Mexico's farmers can grow? No, but anti-GMO groups do. An increasing number of Americans don't ...
Vaccine opponents often cite concerns about new mRNA technology. Can science dispel those fears?
Thanks to Moderna’s and Pfizer’s highly effective COVID-19 vaccines, “messenger RNA” has become a household term — and a source ...
Genetic and hormonal factors may explain why COVID deaths are more common among men
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that in the United States, women account for 45.6 percent ...
‘Opting for what feels safe rather than what is safe’: Why are many pregnant women brushing off advice to get COVID vaccines?
At least 200 pregnant people have died of COVID-19, including 22 in August alone; nearly 23,000 have been hospitalized. Newborns ...
Seed Speaks Video: Getting beyond the myth that synthetic pesticides do more harm than good
With questions about sustainability and safety from consumers, and efficacy and longevity from farmers, pesticides have many questions that need ...
