GLP Science Facts & Fallacies
Podcast: Coronavirus conspiracies deadlier than the disease? Next pandemic worse? Spit test spots more COVID-19
A dearth of coronavirus tests has exacerbated the COVID-19 pandemic in the US and elsewhere, but a newly FDA-approved test ...
Podcast: Coronavirus ‘antidote’ from recovered patient blood? Did the virus escape from a lab? Anti-science activism causes needless harm
While political leaders and scientists speculate that coronavirus is beginning to loosen its grip on the world, hospitals are considering ...
Podcast: GMOs to blame for coronavirus? Catching COVID-19 twice; junk studies fuel biotech skepticism
As the world continues to struggle against the rapidly spreading coronavirus, anti-GMO activists are blaming crop biotechnology for the pandemic ...
Podcast: Coronavirus and food safety; debunking the ‘Dirty Dozen’; COVID-19 cure worse than the disease?
As the world takes unprecedented measures to blunt the coronavirus pandemic, some commentators argue 'the cure is worse than the ...
Podcast: Coronavirus isn’t just a bad flu; COVID-19 vaccine may be delayed; and have we cured HIV?
The novel coronavirus is not just "the flu," contrary to what you may have read on social media. There may ...
Podcast: Fighting blindness with CRISPR. Ophthalmologist in groundbreaking study explains how gene editing could treat a once-incurable disease
Congenital eye disorders can rob children of their eyesight at a young age and severely diminish their quality of life ...
Podcast: Treating blindness with CRISPR; customized cancer drugs; Beyond Meat v. critics; saving bananas from extinction
As genetic engineering reshapes intimate aspects of our lives, is the public on board? ...
Podcast: How to build a coronavirus; alcohol doesn’t shrink your brain; and locusts threaten famine in East Africa
Kevin Folta and Cameron English break down four of the latest headlines from the world of genetics and biotech ...
Podcast: Vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit explains the ‘dos and dont’s’ of battling scientific misinformation
Paul Offit has forged a second career as an influential spokesman for scientific thinking ...
Podcast: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how junk science gets published—and how to spot it in the headlines
Bad research can put people's lives at risk, so addressing problems with peer review is essential ...
Podcast: Can we ‘outsmart’ cancer with synthetic biology? Dr. Tim Lu talks customized disease treatments
On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, Tim Lu talks to Cameron English about Senti's progress toward "outsmarting complex ...
Podcast: Plant diseases destroy $220 billion worth of crops annually. Meet the scientists fighting to protect our food supply
Looking at the massive selection of goods available in US grocery stores, most consumers likely don't realize just how hard ...
Podcast: How technology keeps cancer-causing mycotoxins out of our food
Here's a question for you: what if there were dangerous toxins that could make their way into your food, but ...
Podcast: Farming without chemicals: Pesticide-carrying bees poised to revolutionize agriculture?
While the GMO controversy rages, a handful of companies are taking another innovative approach to crop protection ...
Podcast: What Doctor Who can teach us about protecting California’s grape industry from ‘alien’ bugs
Are you a fan of the long-term sci-fi comedy Doctor Who? It's the bizarre but entertaining story of an extraterrestrial ...
Podcast: Recent study poses new glyphosate-cancer link. Plant geneticist Kevin Folta breaks down the data
Despite the endless stream of dramatic headlines and warnings from environmental activist groups, an overwhelming number of studies indicate that ...
Podcast: This GMO probiotic helps prevent hangovers—can it ease consumer fear of biotechnology?
There's nothing quite like a hangover. After a few too many drinks and a night of restless sleep, you wake ...
Podcast: The story of a grape disease that decimated vineyards for 200 years—and how science helped stop it
When Europeans began to colonize North America 400 plus years ago, they brought along the crops they knew how to ...
Podcast: Food snobbery vs the Impossible Burger: A skeptical look at health claims about plant-based meat
"Natural food" advocates have blasted Impossible and Beyond as unhealthy. Let's look at their arguments ...
Podcast: Do it for the kids? Federal children’s health research grants fund anti-pesticide, organic food activism
How would taxpayers feel about funding organic food activism masquerading as children's health research? ...
Podcast: Food 5.0—GMOs, robots and the future of farming with agronomist Robert Saik
The high efficiency of modern agriculture has a downside: most consumers don't know the first thing about farming ...
Podcast: AI-powered nutrition devices could cut exploding obesity rates. Will FDA rules keep them off the market?
Medical devices powered by artificial intelligence could help overweight people customize diets based on their biomarkers ...
Podcast: Land use for animal agriculture has declined 140 million hectares since 2000. Can we keep this ‘livestock revolution’ alive?
We're often told raising animals for food takes a devastating toll on the environment, consuming ever more natural resources, hastening ...
Podcast: As more US farmers retire, here’s how to recruit a new generation of growers to feed us
Is farming for the aging? While Paul McCartney ponders, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when ...
Podcast: Meet Mary Mangan—the biologist who crashes anti-GMO events and debunks junk science on Twitter
Mangan discusses her unique approach to spreading science literacy ...
Podcast: How farmers grow the 2.7 billion pounds of coffee we drink every year
Whether you typically crave a drip coffee or something a bit more intricate, we can all agree that caffeine is ...
Podcast: Glyphosate, cancer and clickbait, Part 2: Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat analyzes ‘flawed’ Roundup-cancer verdicts
Does Bayer's weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) cause cancer? Three California juries have said yes, while a global consensus of experts ...