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Science majors less skeptical of GMOs than other undergraduates? Yes, but not by much

Stuart Smyth | 
For the past few years, I’ve been fortunate to supervise a number of students working on their undergraduate thesis in ...
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‘Plandemic’ viral video gives anti-vaccination conspiracy movement a booster shot

Davey Alba | 
In a video posted to YouTube on [May 4], a woman animatedly described an unsubstantiated secret plot by global elites ...
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Viewpoint: Modern ‘post-truth’ politics ignores sustainability benefits of GMOs and pesticides

Fred Roeder | 
As Africa shows, locust plagues can be devastating for food security, and climate science enables us to detect that certain ...
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Book review: Sheldon Krimsky’s ‘GMOs Decoded’ cherry-picks data to spur fear of biotech crops

Judith Heimann | 
Judith Heimann reviews “GMOs Decoded: A Skeptic’s View of Genetically Modified Foods,” by Sheldon Krimsky ...
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‘Denial, blame, and conspiratorial thinking’: Anti-vaxxers’ dangerous rhetoric during coronavirus pandemic

Catherine Gammon | 
So far, the responses from major players wear down a familiar path of conspiratorial thinking and government mistrust ...
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Africa’s smallholder farmers need support to build resiliency and sustainability

Reuben Quainoo | 
The world is at a standstill due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the smallholder farmers who feed millions of Africans ...
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COVID-19, climate change may accelerate public acceptance of CRISPR-edited food

Katy Askew, Oliver Peoples | 
Gene editing, like genetic modification, is a technology that has attracted a fair amount of skepticism from European regulators and ...
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Podcast: ‘Food bullying’ fear of GMO insulin parallels skepticism of biotech crops

Heather Barnes, Michele Payn | 
Our guest, Heather Barnes, tells parents, “You are doing great.” Having a child with different dietary needs opens the door ...
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Regulation and anti-GMO activism: Roadblocks on the way to saving the American chestnut tree

Gabriel Popkin | 
In traditional plant breeding .... farmers .... cross varieties with desired traits .... and select promising mixtures for sought-after qualities ...
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Anti-vaxxers and anti-GMO lobby double down on COVID China conspiracy theory

Mary Lynas | 
As the World Health Organization warns of a misinformation “infodemic,” anti-science groups around the world are doubling down on a ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Just plain bad science’: FOX News promotes ‘pseudoscience’ COVID-19 fatality study by California ‘fake experts’

David Gorski | 
There’s a pandemic of more than just COVID-19 right now. There’s also a pandemic of pseudoscience, misinformation, disinformation, and just ...
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Viewpoint: Journalism or propaganda? Animal rights group pays UK newspaper The Guardian to bash agriculture

Henry Miller, Rob Wager | 
We grew up in an era when the mainstream media reported the news straightforwardly, but now much of it is ...
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Podcast: Why scientists have an obligation to teach the public about GMOs

Godwin James, Mahaletchumy Arujanan | 
Dr. Maha Arujanan is the global coordinator of the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotech Applications (ISAAA) and also ...
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Viewpoint: Norman Borlaug saved millions of lives, would his critics prefer he hadn’t?

Justin Cremer | 
Norman Borlaug is perhaps the most important person in human history whose name and legacy remain largely unknown. A hero ...
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Viewpoint: Coronavirus pandemic has alerted consumers to the ‘silliness’ of organic food marketing

Julie Gunlock | 
Remember when buying those “non-toxic” cleaning supplies made you feel like you were being a good person? Yeah, those were ...
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Consumers may pay more for lab-grown meat once told about its perceived benefits

Oliver Morrison | 
A study at Maastricht University claims people are prepared to pay more for lab-grown meat after being told of its ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Big Ag’ caused the coronavirus pandemic? Predatory science journal amplifies baseless COVID-19 conspiracy

Stuart Smyth | 
With the global pandemic caused by Covid-19, agricultural supply chains around the world have been taxed to ensure consistent and ...
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Viewpoint: How precautionary public health policy turned coronavirus into a ‘global train wreck’

David Zaruk | 
Worldwide coronavirus response was a failure in risk management ...
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Podcast: Coronavirus conspiracies deadlier than the disease? Next pandemic worse? Spit test spots more COVID-19

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A dearth of coronavirus tests has exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and elsewhere, but a newly FDA-approved test ...
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Capitalizing on corona: Conspiracy theorists blame COVID-19 on glyphosate, GMOs and the ‘New World Order’

Myles Power | 
With a quarter of the world’s population currently in lockdown, time has never been better for ..... frauds, as they ...
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How Liberia’s decisive response to contain the Ebola outbreak provides a blueprint for how to manage the coronavirus and future pandemics

Emmanuel Zoboi Gokpolu | 
In April of 2014, an outbreak of a disease named after the Ebola River in Congo was reported in Guinea, ...
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COVID: Top 10 current conspiracy theories

Mark Lynas | 
As the COVID-19 crisis worsens, the world also faces a global misinformation pandemic. Conspiracy theories that behave like viruses themselves ...
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Washington Supreme Court orders reassessment of $18 million penalty against food industry group alleged to have concealed GMO labeling campaign funding

Gene Johnson | 
The Washington Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the largest penalty for campaign finance violations ever assessed ...
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Podcast: Coronavirus ‘antidote’ from recovered patient blood? Did the virus escape from a lab? Anti-science activism causes needless harm

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
While political leaders and scientists speculate that coronavirus is beginning to loosen its grip on the world, hospitals are considering ...
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Podcast: ‘Angry Chef’ Anthony Warner takes on food pseudoscience and COVID-19 misinformation

Anthony Warner, Gabriel Martins | 
Anthony Warner, better known as "the Angry Chef," visits the Fuel the Pedal podcast to examine how nutrition science is ...
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How the ‘seductive myth of nature’s goodness’ infiltrated our thinking about food, medicine and even makeup

James McConnachie | 
“Humankind is poised to make monumental decisions,” Alan Levinovitz warns, “about the meaning and importance of natural goodness.” ... His ...
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Podcast: GMOs to blame for coronavirus? Catching COVID-19 twice; junk studies fuel biotech skepticism

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
As the world continues to struggle against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, anti-GMO activists are blaming crop biotechnology for the pandemic ...
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