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Same vaccine, different outcomes: COVID shot rollouts are saving lives — but some countries are benefiting more than others
While it's clear vaccines led to a drop in fatalities during the most recent delta variant-driven waves compared with earlier ...
‘The inscrutability of organic status’: Are you getting what you pay for when you buy food with an organic label?
[Editor’s note: In this article, the New Yorker documents a large-scale fraudulent organic scheme in the U.S. They chart a ...
Viewpoint: New York state legislators ignore the science in rush to embrace erroneous bee-apocalypse claims
We all remember the adage “Save the Bees!” that scientists and beekeepers have promoted. It animated environmental activists for a ...
Once an ardent GMO promoter, Soylent no longer touts the role of genetic engineering in making its drinks
Few food companies over the past decade have voluntarily promoted the use of genetic engineering on their labels. After all, ...
Viewpoint: Animal genetic selection will likely be embraced by public — but gene editing could face resistance from activist GMO opponents
Animal biotechnology is the application of recombinant DNA techniques to animals. Genetic engineering and cloning are two older forms of ...
GLP Podcast: ‘Fashionable nonsense’ in medicine; Strange history of pregnancy tests; Bayer goes organic
Medicine is bowing to academia's "fashionable nonsense" surrounding a variety of important issues, and the consequences could be serious. Home ...
Exxon partnership hopes to turn algae into fuel. Is it a potential climate change breakthrough — or just greenwashing?
Some scientists regard Exxon Mobil Corp.’s long-running quest to turn algae into a transportation fuel as little more than a ...
COVID misinformation epidemic: Nearly 80% of Americans believe or are unsure about at least one false claim about the coronavirus
Misinformation about health care topics is nothing new, but social media, the polarization of news sources, and the pace of ...
Podcast: Prof Kevin Folta profiles Jeffrey Smith, a leading purveyor of crop biotechnology disinformation often cited by anti-biotech advocacy groups
We must be dedicated to fighting back against false information in food and medicine. Jeffery Smith is a personality with ...
Daily Beast investigation: Conspiracy-spreading anti-GMO group USRTK — founded and funded by anti-vaxxers — is New York Times and The Guardian’s favored source on crop biotechnology
Research from the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know has undergirded New York Times reporting on the food system, and outlets ...
‘Dear Christians’: Newsmax rebukes own correspondent after Tweet falsely claiming COVID vaccines contain ‘bioluminescent tracker’
Right-wing news network Newsmax distanced itself from one of its top reporters [November 4] after she tweeted a bizarre false ...
‘It is hype and bullshit’: Scientist challenges claims that pig-to-human xenotransplantation is close to realization
Steve Holtzman was awoken by a 1 a.m. call from a doctor at Duke University asking if he could put ...
Viewpoint: European politicians seem hell-bent on undermining sustainable farming
As Members of the European Parliament meet... to discuss how violently to continue Brussels’ attack on European farmers and consumers, ...
Viewpoint: Can pseudoscience feed us? — Indian sustainability expert challenges anti-ag biotechnology activists
The internet is swamped with myths, misconceptions, half-truth, and baseless claims propagated by several entities (unqualified individuals in the guise ...
Viewpoint: ‘Fashionable nonsense’ — The deadly impact of ‘kowtowing to academia’s political zeitgeist’ in biomedicine
In August 2018, The Lancet published a curious paper, reminiscent of America’s long-forgotten Prohibition Era. The research came to a ...
GLP Podcast: COVID vaccine skepticism justified? Live long despite your genes; Junk food addiction
Many people simply refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine. Is their skepticism justifiable, or are they plagued by biases that ...
Viewpoint: ‘Anti-GMO activists persist in their fear tactics targeting the African public’ — Here’s the damage they wreak in the less developed world
From the beginning, genetically engineered (GE) crops (also known as GMOs) have been controversial. Europe has always been at the ...
Power Hungry Podcast and Video: GLP’s Jon Entine on the ‘disinformation industry’ blocking innovation in biomedicine and sustainable agriculture
Energy journalist Robert Bryce interviews Genetic Literacy Project executive director Jon Entine on the politics of innovation in biotechnology—how precautionary ...
Seed Speaks Video: Despite enormous sustainability benefits, some people still view genetically engineered crops with suspicion. Here’s why
Why do GMOs have an image problem? It’s a question we attempted to answer on the Oct. 13 episode of ...
Podcast: Here is how misinformation about GMOs and crop biotechnology mutates and spreads
How does misinformation about genetically engineered crops (GMOs) start and how do we correct it? These are questions asked by ...
China’s latest Twitter disinformation claim: COVID caused by Maine lobsters imported to Wuhan
Zha Liyou, the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India, tweeted an unfounded claim that Covid-19 could have been imported to ...
Viewpoint: Green lobby in full swing as activist NGOs flood European Commission with pre-fabricated, anti-biotechnology propaganda
Before legislative procedures, the EU regularly asks for the opinions of its citizens and stakeholders. In principle, anyone can participate ...
Is ‘serious genetic condition’ a useful term?
Despite no consensus on the definition of ‘seriousness’, the concept is regularly used in policy and practice contexts to categorize ...
Part 2: How anti-biotechnology activists came to embrace COVID vaccine hesitancy
Even as many progressives champion the various COVID vaccines, many Democrats in the US and leftists in other countries remain ...
Viewpoint: Greenpeace continues campaign to scuttle Philippines’ vitamin A-enriched Golden Rice approval, but government holds firm
COVID-19 has caused untold suffering throughout the world, but particularly in developing countries. So why is Greenpeace continuing a yearslong ...
Why do some minority groups have reservations about the COVID vaccine?
Two JAMA Network Open studies [published September 30] that looked at COVID-19 vaccine acceptance in minority groups and opinions around ...
Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?
Twenty-five years ago, in 1996, physicist Alan Sokal pulled off a now notorious academic hoax by submitting a spoof article, ...
