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Biotech experts push back after week-long protest to block Philippines Golden Rice approval
Golden Rice is any rice variety that has been genetically modified to include two genes (from maize and soil bacteria) ...
The ‘Church of Nature’ and the sudden collapse of the cult of Extinction Rebellion
When a cult loses its grip on a person, a form of reawakening takes place. It involves having to return ...
Viewpoint: ‘Superfood’—a lucrative marketing term with no scientific basis
Walking through the grocery aisle, there is an overwhelming number of new superfoods to choose from. Hemp hearts are full ...
9 COVID conspiracy theories and myths debunked
Even with widely available evidence to the contrary, beliefs are hard to change. Here are some of the most insidious ...
Chile poised to tackle food shortages and climate change with ‘Golden Apple’ and other CRISPR-edited crops
Chile’s intense political unrest exacerbated by months of COVID-19 quarantine has temporarily overshadowed a relentless environmental, farming crisis: an intense ...
FDA launches high-school curriculum to teach students about GMOs, CRISPR
Food agriculture is a topic of great interest to farmers, consumers, scientists, educators, and many people of all ages. After ...
Despite anti-vax fears, vaccines are safe
A review of 58 different changes to labels on vaccines made between 1996 and 2015 has shown very few dangers ...
Mask wars: History repeats itself more than a century after the Spanish flu
In the United States, where [the Spanish flu] ultimately killed around 675,000 people, local governments rolled out initiatives to try ...
Impossible Foods, Beyond Meat dismiss criticism from rival Lightlife Foods as a PR stunt
In an open letter slammed by Impossible Foods as cynical and disingenuous and dismissed by one commentator as a “PR ...
Lightlife urges Beyond Meat, Impossible Foods to drop ‘hyper-processed ingredients, GMOs’ from plant-based burgers
About a year ago, Lightlife President Dan Curtin challenged his team to make the cleanest plant-based burger they could create, ...
Viewpoint: Cameron Diaz, Katherine Power promote ‘clean wine’ with organic farming myths
In the wake of the natural wine movement and the age of ‘wellness’, it was just a matter of time ...
Anti-vax conspiracy promoter Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. sues Facebook claiming fact-checking is censorship
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed suit [August 18] in federal court in California alleging that Facebook's fact-checking program for false ...
Anti-GMO movement merging with anti-vaccine groups, escalating threat to global coronavirus response
As scientists around the world work at an unprecedented pace to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, anti-vaccine proponents are planting ...
Democratic strategists urge Joe Biden to take on Monsanto to win rural support
The Biden campaign wants to undercut President Donald Trump’s sweeping victory across rural America in 2016 by making its case ...
CRISPR cows could boost sustainable meat production, but regulations and wary consumers stand in the way
When Ralph Fisher, a Texas cattle rancher, set eyes on one of the world’s first cloned calves in August 1999, he ...
GMOs ‘pose no health risks,’ biotech experts say, but ‘bioengineered’ food labels coming anyway
Nearly 70 percent of processed foods at U.S. grocery stores contain at least one genetically engineered ingredient. Even though most scientists believe that genetically ...
‘Steadily increasing’ GMO acceptance in Europe fuels efforts to revise biotech restrictions
Since 1996 till 2018, the global area cultivated with GM crops has increased 113-fold, making biotech crops one of the ...
Viewpoint: GMO vs non-GMO foods? There’s no difference to your body or health
What exactly happens when you eat a GMO? ...
Viewpoint: How prosperity and technology are defeating ‘environmental pessimism’
In 1980, the year that PERC was founded, I spent three months in the Himalayas working on a wildlife conservation ...
Facebook, Twitter shut down sequel to viral COVID-19 misinformation video Plandemic
Major social-media platforms hindered the spread of a sequel to viral coronavirus conspiracy theory video “Plandemic” on [August 18], months ...
Has ‘Big Tech’ replaced ‘Big Ag’ as America’s favorite corporate villain?
For years, large agricultural companies and farmers have felt the sting of public opinion. Seed and crop protection companies have ...
Podcast: Covid conspiracies; Cuba embraces GMOs; biotech vs. nature’s ‘mindless dangers’
A fearful public accepts conspiracy theories because they offer a sense of control in an uncontrollable situation, says a young ...
Bill Gates: ‘The majority of all US COVID-19 tests are completely garbage’
An early Cassandra who warned of our lack of preparedness for a global pandemic, [Bill Gates] became one of the most credible ...
Pew survey: 80% of churchgoers, including most Republicans, support masks and social distancing during services
U.S. adults overwhelmingly say houses of worship should be required to follow the same rules about social distancing and large ...
Top-10 myths about GMOs, pesticides and organic farming, according to biotechnology experts
Scientists who have conducted research on GM crops have attested to the safety of such crops and their contributions to ...
Viewpoint: ‘All natural’ pet food is no better for Fido, and it’s terrible for the environment
Gone are the days when a proud new pet owner could waltz into the grocery store and pick up a ...
Podcast: Bill Nye The Science Guy explains his transition from GMO skeptic to advocate
Back in 2014, Bill Nye The Science Guy was skeptical of genetically modified foods, or GMOs. It raised some eyebrows ...
