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Does academic freedom protect professors who spread scientific nonsense online? The UK appears to be backtracking on a pesticide ban ...

Surrogacy regulation can differ wildly from state to state and country to country. Take a look at these infographics to ...

A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi ...

Twenty years is a long time in the wilderness. Since 2001 and the European Environment Agency’s publication, Late Lessons from Early ...

In the summer of 2021, a toxic, smoky haze stemming from Western wildfires wafted across large parts of the United States, ...

I’m a biologist. A neuroscientist, actually. Since I received my PhD in Biological Psychology from the University of Chicago, I’ve ...

Despite vehement public debate, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that GE foods present no greater risk than non-GMO crops, ...

I loved the movie Erin Brockovich played by Julia Roberts who played a lawyer’s assistant fighting the interplay of corporate greed ...

People believe a lot of nonsense about food and farming; let's debunk the top-10 worst of these "truisms." The FDA ...

Countries need to make their agrifood systems more resilient to sudden shocks of the kind witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...

After having been told for over a year that there was a scientific consensus that Covid had a natural origin ...

In clearing out my office recently I came across a DVD of the video Life in a standard and in ...

Reporters like to lecture the public about the importance of science while promoting obviously unscientific ideas when it suits them ...

We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not ...

YouTube triggered an uproar [recently], announcing that it would take “down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including ...

In 2019, the United States produced approximately $111 billion worth of beef, exporting about 3 billion pounds and employing hundreds ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, an unfortunately all-too-common topic for me was the proliferation of dubious acupuncture ...

Chemophobia is rampant. Some environmental groups, organic promoters and sloppy journalists have successfully made many consumers scared of products that ...

It’s no secret that Congress sometimes does things – including creating laws – that make little sense and that are contrary ...

Following the FDA's granting of Emergency Use Authorization to Merck's molnupiravir and Pfizer's Paxlovid, the only two approved direct-acting antiviral ...

Anyone who has flown over the Canadian prairies in any of the previous summers will notice the tremendous number of ...

Chances are you’ve met a narcissist. Someone who thinks they’re better than everyone else, dominates the conversation and loves the ...

The season of retrospectives is upon us. The past year will be long remembered with dismay and sadness, as the four horsemen—war, famine, pestilence and plague—each had robust ...

The COVID-19 vaccines saved a lot of lives in 2021, but convincing some Americans to take them proved to be ...

The major food staples are essential to human survival. Chocolate and coffee are not essential, but try to imagine a ...

Back in the 18th century, it was a wonder how anyone ever survived a trip to the doctor. Many didn’t ...

The “bioengineered” label for foods sold in the United States is now in effect. Any food or food ingredient that ...