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Part II: How bureaucratic infighting and dairy industry lobbying have undermined the federal response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak
In early 2023, as news of H5N1 avian influenza (“bird flu”) spreading among dairy cows reached the White House, the ...
Part I: USDA’s dereliction in containing bird flu could cause the outbreak to escalate into a deadly epidemic
When dairy cows in Texas started falling ill last spring, alarm bells started to ring. Veterinarians had found feverish cows ...
Viewpoint: The environmentalist case for Ecomodernism
The climate continues to change, driven now by human actions. As it does, the warnings grow more pressing, the heat ...
Podcast: Glyphosate doesn’t cause Celiac disease or alter gluten structure
Disinformation clouds the public understanding of science, especially technology in agriculture and medicine. So when a leading journal publishes false ...
Viewpoint: Britain’s new Labor government signals it will move forward legislation to open the door to CRISPR and other crop gene editing innovations
There are increasingly positive signs that the newly-elected Labour administration will shortly bring forward the secondary legislation needed to implement ...
Debunking GMO Myths: No, GMOs aren’t causing cancer. Yes, Non-GMO labeling is a scam
Few topics in science, health and food elicit more fear than the phrase GMO, when everything we eat is technically ...
African scientists challenge activist claims that crop biotechnology revolution spreading across Africa threatens continent’s plant biodiversity
Do genetically modified (GM) pose a threat to the Africa’s plant biodiversity? ...
Viewpoint: With the help of ‘useful idiot’ activists, Russian propaganda targets US national security and public health
Recent Russian clandestine attempts to use “authentic” U.S. media and social media influencers to corrupt elections are hardly surprising, considering ...
Decarbonization and meaningful climate mitigation is a long game
One of the long-standing tropes of climate politics in the United States is that as every presidential election comes into ...
What is Mexico’s trade war targeting glyphosate and GMO corn really about
Thomas Jefferson famously noted that "[T]he greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to ...
Viewpoint: Hurricane-caused drug and IV fluid shortages expose a vulnerability in U.S. supply chains. Here’s a solution.
The recent storms that ravaged Florida and other states affected more than homes and infrastructure. Hurricane Helene inflicted significant damage ...
The conflict between sustainable development goals and environmental activists
At the end of the 20th century, the United Nations (UN) launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The MDGs were a list of ...
America’s abortion patients are traveling from state to state to navigate the changing patchwork of abortion restrictions
Soon after a series of state laws left a Planned Parenthood clinic in Columbia, Missouri, unable to provide abortions in ...
Florida’s anti-vaccine surgeon general takes his disinformation campaign on the road with RFK, Jr., anti-vaxxers, and Nazi-promoting ‘health specialists’
Florida has much going for it, but the state’s public health system doesn’t make the list. The opprobrium is largely ...
A five-star recipe for cutting food waste?
A comprehensive report on food waste published in [March 2024] by the United Nations Environment Programme shares some sobering statistics: ...
How is artificial intelligence (AI) transforming agriculture, and what does the future hold?
For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios ...
How do we know when we need to pee? It’s surprisingly complex — and can go awry as we age
You’re driving somewhere, eyes on the road, when you start to feel a tingling sensation in your lower abdomen. That ...
Viewpoint: What happens when health officials spread misinformation?
The American Academy of Pediatrics is legitimizing pseudoscience that is undermining food safety, genetic technologies, and critical agricultural practices ...
Mental illness is an under-reported, post-infection consequence of COVID. Here’s what you can do to mitigate your risk.
Misguided COVID-minimizers like to say that COVID-19 is no worse than a cold that lasts a few days and then ...
A natural biological approach to weed control
Weeds have been a major challenge since the earliest days of farming. Tillage - the mechanical means of weed control ...
How the ‘regulator-activist-legal-complex’ undermines technological innovation
America continues to lead the world in science and technology, but this is hardly a God-given right. Compared to the ...
With the Chevron Doctrine overturned, the new ‘judicial veto’ of regulations will be bad for science and business
A colleague and I wrote about recent Supreme Court decisions that produced sweeping changes in how government regulation works in the ...
How good is your sense of direction? Here’s why some people never get lost
Like many of the researchers who study how people find their way from place to place, David Uttal is a ...
Viewpoint: Why are politicians letting the tort lawyer and organic industry funded anti-science Environmental Working Group influence public policy?
We are in an era where rejection of science occurs across all ideologies and communities. Anti-science misinformation spreads as a ...
Trump oversaw one of the great public health accomplishments of the century in the discovery of a Covid vaccine. Now he’s leading the campaign against it
More than four years ago, former President Donald Trump’s administration accelerated the development and rollout of the covid-19 vaccine. The ...
Viewpoint: Faulty science undergirds attacks on paraquat herbicide
The Paraquat-Parkinson’s tort extortion process is a perfect example of the Predatort Playbook in action. Tort law firms contact activist ...
Will the Supreme Court block further glyphosate suits against Bayer?
Recent surprise decisions have upended plaintiffs’ expectations on the toxic tort front. In Delaware, the top court is rehearing the ...
