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Synthetic, genetically engineered, and ‘Made in China’: Busting supplement industry myths about the natural wonders of Vitamin C
Dear Vitamin C Aficionados: This article isn't about whether you should take the stuff [1]. Instead, it raises some questions about what ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. wrongly demonizes the safe and effective HPV vaccine Gardasil
While HHS Secretary Kennedy frets over food dye in Froot Loops, his 2023 attack on Gardasil — a vaccine proven ...
High stakes: Why hasn’t Congress passed a new farm bill in two years, and what would it cover?
The Farm Bill is the comprehensive federal legislation that lays out our food and agricultural policies. Think of it as a ...
Viewpoint: In damning genetic modification, activists fret ‘traditional vegetables may go extinct’. Why that’s not worrisome
Biodiversity generally refers to the billions of unique living organisms living in the world and the interactions between them. Biodiversity ...
Viewpoint: Are Trump’s MAHA policies making America healthier or sicker?
In his March address to Congress, President Donald Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid bipartisan applause, ...
GLP Spaces on X: Refuting MAHA’s anti-pesticide mythology
There's a little-known fact the MAHA coalition would prefer to keep quiet: pesticides are essential to protect public health and ...
Measles outbreak: Republicans more likely than Democrats to believe vaccines more dangerous than the disease itself
As the U.S. grapples with rising measles cases across multiple states and the highest number of cases since 2019, about ...
Outdated agricultural biotechnology regulations are slowing innovation. Trump could change that for the better
In late 2024, the result of a decades-long process to update U.S. biotechnology regulation was undone when a judge ordered ...
Viewpoint: ‘We need to fend off the sophistry and mendacity of anti-innovation, anti-biotechnology, chemophobic activists’
The adage “Follow the science” when formulating public policy has much to recommend it, but it’s not as straightforward as ...
Viewpoint: mRNA-based vaccines for humans and livestock are under attack, with HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. leading the charge. Their rejectionism is dangerous
The rapid development of safe and effective vaccines against SARS-CoV2 demonstrated the agility and efficacy of mRNA vaccines. The knowledge ...
GLP podcast: Science of reproduction—what does evolution tell us about the ‘sex spectrum’?
Over the last decade, a growing chorus of scientists has declared that biological sex is not binary. Properly assessing human ...
What is the impact of the SCOTUS decision to uphold the Tennessee law banning gender affirming care?
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled (6-3) in United States v. Skrmetti, upholding the lower court’s ruling that a Tennessee law (SB1) ...
Viewpoint: Toxic chemicals in tampons? Unpacking the latest environmental activist group hysteria claim
The chatter about chemicals in tampons isn’t exactly a new thing; it’s more like a rerun of a series that ...
Viewpoint: The health and environmental impacts of glyphosate
A federal reckoning over glyphosate is imminent as the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement gains a foothold with Secretary ...
‘Humanized mice’: Chimeras fuel quest to treat chronic diseases, cancer and even COVID-19
Some medical conditions can't be ethically investigated in humans, so researchers are finding interesting ways to grow people parts in ...
Seeds of influence: As U.S. and other Western countries hesitate to back biotech in Africa, China is redefining global standards around agricultural innovation
In the heart of Mozambique’s Gaza Province, rice fields stretch across the landscape, a testament to a quiet but powerful ...
Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology
Early last year, the Environmental Working Group and the Green Science Policy Institute launched an attack on a family of ...
On chronic disease, the Make America Healthy Commission misfires, but there are solutions: Rethinking fruits and vegetables
If there is a positive aspect of the Make American Healthy Again movement it is that it brings to the ...
RFK, Jr.’s MAHA Health Commission attacks vaccines, ultra-processed food for chronic health problems, tiptoes around criticizing crop chemicals
President Trump's Make America Healthy Again Commission blamed factors including bad diets, chemical exposure and unnecessary medication for causing childhood ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense botches the science on mRNA vaccines. No, they don’t cause cancer
Last month, researchers published an important study about how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines affect our immune system. The findings are fascinating and highlight ...
Viewpoint: Activist-critics of GMO crops claim falsely that biotechnology increases chemical use in farming
When the anti-GMO movement gets tired of chanting “Monsanto” like a magic spell, it grabs academic buzzwords to sound respectable ...
Viewpoint: Sustainable intensification—Debunking activist claims that high-yield agriculture leads to industrial monocultures
“Nature organisations have an uneasy relationship with modern agriculture. I think many of them would ideally like to free up ...
Viewpoint: Phase out petrochemical-based plastics in favor of paper to reduce carbon emissions? Scientists challenge activist dogma
The next time someone asks you: Will that be paper or plastic? think twice before you torch the planet by choosing the ...
Malaria and Africa: Could gene-edited gene drives contain the scourge or are they an ecological threat and a boon to global corporations?
Fifteen African countries are involved in a globally-funded project to test a developing technology known as gene drives to control ...
Weedkiller wars: What happens if Bayer abandons the herbicide glyphosate?
Are glyphosate's days numbered? It's the world's most popular weedkiller by far. Since its introduction in the 1970s, glyphosate has ...
Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin
I wish that I could stop reposting this essay – I do so whenever limitations on women’s reproductive rights become ...
Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues
Few environmental issues are more controversial than the potential danger of pesticides used to tame weeds and disease in crops ...
