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8 advocacy organizations and websites spreading misinformation about technology, chemicals, food and environmental risk
Are you worried about the environment and the 'proliferation of unnecessary chemicals'? Concerned that CRISPR and other forms of genetic ...
Fact-checking site pans Wall Street Journal opinion piece claiming US could have herd immunity by April
This Wall Street Journal opinion piece, published on 18 February 2021, claimed in its headline that the U.S. will “have ...
Debunking 7 myths about the COVID vaccine
[W]idespread immunization is the fastest and best way to begin to return to a more normal way of life. Seven ...
Viewpoint: Free speech vs science—Should colleges invite anti-GMO speakers they ‘know’ spread misinformation?
In the face of climate change, the expectation for evidence is doubled because of the dramatic implications ...
COVID shots and “The Mark of the Beast’? Battling religious vaccine misinformation
The Book of Revelation describes the End Time as a bloody battle filled with persecution, during which a beast forces ...
Part 2: Why is Africa the global COVID-19 ‘cold spot’? — The historical challenge of disentangling genes and environment
Does greater prior exposure to pathogens, including other recent coronaviruses, help explain why Africa is a COVID-19 cold spot, despite ...
Evolution of literacy: How Protestantism and the Bible rewired Medieval brains
Of course, writing systems are thousands of years old, found in ancient Sumer, China, and Egypt, but in most literate ...
Podcast: Sierra Club endorses biotech chestnut tree; GM salmon coming this April? Downside of genetic engineering
Historically a vocal opponent of genetically engineered crops, the Sierra Club has endorsed the release of a disease-resistant, genetically modified ...
Viewpoint: ‘No added hormones’? How food labels can be technically accurate but still misleading
Terms like 'GMO-free' and 'raised without hormones or antibiotics' are just some of the labels used on food products, and ...
Navigating advertising landmines on the path to egg freezing
More women in the UK than ever before are considering freezing their eggs, with the sharp rise in inquiries at ...
Viewpoint: Gene-edited crop developers need to win public trust. Transparency is how they can do it
In 2009, the genome editing tool CRISPR was introduced, which allows scientists to edit the DNA of organisms such as ...
‘Spread like wildfire’: Conspiracy theories undermining COVID vaccine efforts spreading from Western countries to Africa
Anti-vaccine sentiment, often fed by rumours spread on social media, is already thriving in the West. But a similar dynamic ...
‘Bridging that gap between scientists and ordinary folks’: How storytelling combats anti-GMO advocacy
Many Africans still don’t understand scientists, or what they do. Scientists are widely seen as aloof and detached — a ...
Viewpoint: New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof echoes scientifically dubious fears about falling sperm counts and ‘endocrine disrupting’ chemicals
The New York Times' Nicholas Kristof has shown an admirable commitment over the years towards highlighting under-reported stories. He fights ...
Playing ‘wait and see’ with the COVID vaccine? Here’s the variety of reasons why people report hesitancy
31% of the public say that when an FDA-approved vaccine for COVID-19 is available to them for free, they will ...
Urine test to detect glyphosate weedkiller is a marketing ‘hoax,’ French farmers say
Are the Elisa tests used by environmental associations to analyze the level of glyphosate present in urine .... reliable? No, ...
‘Wait and see?’ 41% of Black women have reservations about COVID shots, 50% of African Americans don’t trust US healthcare system
The latest from the KFF COVID-19 Vaccine Monitor finds that Black men (45%) and women (41%) are more likely than ...
‘False paradigm’: Pitting organic and conventional farming against each other won’t promote sustainability, says GLP’s Jon Entine at USDA Ag Outlook Forum
Interest groups have become so hardened in their views about which types of agriculture benefit the environment that the fact ...
Can anything be done to counter anti-vaccination activists?
Recently, anti-vaxxers protests shut down the mass vaccination program underway at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In Israel, the global poster child ...
Bill Gates under fire for urging wealthy countries to give up beef and switch to synthetic meat
The Microsoft founder-turned-global health philanthropist [Bill Gates] discusses ways to tackle climate change in his new book, “How to Avoid ...
Politics and COVID: Why are Republicans more hesitant to get the vaccine?
Unfortunately, a partisan split on receiving a Covid-19 vaccine has reemerged and widened over the last few months. This partisan ...
Viewpoint: Tanzania’s anti-vaxxer president is slowing COVID response and endangering lives
In politics, there are generally two ways of making decisions. The first is evidence-based, weighing the pros and cons and ...
COVID vaccine hesitancy vs vaccine refusal? Many nursing home staff take a wait-and-see position
In North Carolina, the health secretary has said more than half of nursing home workers are declining the vaccine. A ...
‘They will turn into alligators’: Evangelical Christian missionaries turning Amazon villages against COVID vaccines
On the São Francisco reservation in the state of Amazonas, Jamamadi villagers sent health workers [arriving with COVID vaccines] packing ...
Viewpoint: Promoting science with ideology — Pro-GMO vegans use animal rights advocacy to boost vaccine, biotech acceptance
The COVID-19 pandemic has reminded us that we are part of a living, evolving ecosystem and often at its mercy ...
Protection, Kansas was the first town in the nation to be fully vaccinated against polio. Now it’s an epicenter of vaccine skepticism.
Sixty-four years ago, residents of this tiny town in southwestern Kansas set a public health example by making it the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Terminator seeds’—the anti-GMO bogeyman that never existed
Although GMO sterile 'terminator' seeds never existed, the idea has distorted the discussion for decades ...
