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Viewpoint: How to resist the allure of science disinformation swamping social media
If you haven’t been following my social channels, I just returned home from CSICon, a fantastic conference filled with presentations ...
Viewpoint: Why the entrenched environmental movement is incapable of solving the climate change crisis
Photo credit to Seaver Wang Every now and again, a series of events unfolds in such serendipitously perfect succession as ...
Viewpoint: Broken trust — American Association of Pediatrics embraces a rogue scientist’s anti-GMO and crop chemical obsession
Trust is essential when parents seek advice from their pediatricians. It must be fact-based and free from politics and special ...
Human consciousness: How and why it evolved?
Why did the experience of consciousness evolve from our underlying brain physiology? Despite being a vibrant area of neuroscience, current ...
While comprehensive gene editing liberalization in the European Union still appears distant, individual countries are making research progress
Using the gene editing method researchers at the University of Milan have started field trials of a rice genotype that ...
Viewpoint: Promotion of social science drivel by Science magazine editor-in-chief Holden Thorp undermines the credibility of his preeminent journal
Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during the recent meeting of the American Association ...
Viewpoint: Land sharing vs land sparing — How can we increase crop yields without sacrificing climate and biodiversity goals
It is 12 months since I highlighted the scientific evidence pointing to the urgent need to take forward a land sparing ...
No-burp syndrome: 20,000 people on Reddit’s “I can’t belch” subreddit spread the word of a Botox cure
In a video posted to Reddit this summer, Lucie Rosenthal’s face starts focused and uncertain, looking intently into the camera, before ...
More than 40 gene-edited crops will be available to European farmers only when the EU deregulates crop biotechnology
In agricultural production, high-yielding variety genotypes are effective in increasing yield per unit area, beyond the contributions of fertilizer and ...
Viewpoint: Vani Hari’s food recipe: The Food Babe promotes 100% fear, 0% facts
If you haven’t heard of Vani Hari, consider yourself fortunate. For many of us in the science, nutrition, and public ...
Viewpoint: The story of RP11, whose DNA mostly defines the first genetic blueprint of humanity
It sounds as if the donor knows who he is,” wrote Francis Collins, former director of the then-called National Center for ...
Humans are adapting to global warming. What are the policy implications
On [September 23rd, 2024], the New York Times ran a David Wallace-Wells column called “Our Adaptation to Global Warming Is Largely Fictional” featuring ...
Why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would be catastrophic for science and America’s health
Today is a dark day for the US, the rest of society, and our planet. The above header was actually ...
Viewpoint: Is the age of environmental activism coming to an end?
For the last 50 years, from the time of Greenpeace activists chasing whaling ships to today’s green NGO coalitions directing ...
Viewpoint: Elle MacPherson claims she cured her cancer using ‘intuitive and holistic’ alternative medicine. She’s ‘lying’ and why it matters
I’ve been wanting to start to dig into cancer pseudoscience for a long time, and in my other pieces, I’ve ...
Inching toward a global treaty on plastic pollution
Delegates from 175 nations are working on an international agreement that would tackle the vast amounts of plastic waste in ...
Plastic waste as food? Microorganisms may one day be able to feed a growing world population
In 2019, an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense released a call for research projects to help the military deal with the ...
Podcast viewpoint: RFK, Jr spewed misinformation about glyphosate, vaccines and cellphones on Joe Rogan—clues on how he could impact US policy” ← Go to editor
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is recognized for his bad science around critical issues like vaccination and agricultural chemistry. Recently he ...
Viewpoint: Why environmental activists often block innovations that could help fight climate change?
Whether you know it or not, environmental activist groups are increasingly dictating how you live. They file costly lawsuits that ...
Viewpoint: ‘Doubt factory’—How a French journalist manufactures facts to manipulate the media, enrich toxic tort law firms and undermine science
Editor's Introduction: Readers who live outside of France have likely never heard of Le Monde environmental journalist Stéphane Foucart. He ...
Viewpoint: Understanding risk—Why does trace pesticide residue spark intense fear?
At speaking engagements, I would often remind audiences of Bruce Ames’ quote on coffee and pesticides. In an attempt to ...
Viewpoint: Fears grow that the biotechnology revolution could pass the United States by. What can be done?
Eric Schmidt, a commissioner on the federal National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology and formerly the CEO and Chairman of ...
Rethinking the 10,000 year existential overlap of Neanderthals and modern humans
The idea that two different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured ...
Viewpoint: Should doctors stop using ‘race’ when evaluating patients for treatment?
Embedded Bias: Doctors use problematic race-based algorithms to guide care every day. Why are they so hard to change? [Editors ...
Viewpoint: The politicization of food safety—what can we expect if Trump wins the presidency
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: science is political. Well, technically, how science is implemented is political, ...
Brewing longevity: Reassessing the health impact of coffee
Coffee gives us a great morning boost – and it is not just the caffeine! A recent study published in ...
AI is supercharging gene editing, slingshotting us into a future of creating new life
During her chemistry Nobel Prize lecture in 2018, Frances Arnold said, “Today we can for all practical purposes read, write and ...
