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Viewpoint: After nearly two dozen Roundup trials, what have juries learned about the link between glyphosate and cancer?
A lawyer who claims his client, a government union employee, got cancer from using the common weedkiller Roundup, is whining that his ...
Viewpoint: ‘Environmentalists are wrong on opposing technological tweaks to agriculture’: How activists undermine society’s need for more climate-adaptive sustainable farming
Public concern about the environment has not always been part of the social conscience in North America. After all, European ...
A timeline of artificial intelligence (AI), 1940s to today
A roomsize computer equipped with a new type of circuitry, the Perceptron, was introduced to the world in 1958 in ...
Fatigue in long COVID: The sinister gift that keeps on giving
By now, almost everyone knows people who have had COVID. Although most recover within a few days or weeks, it ...
Viewpoint: Uncomfortable truth — ‘Organic farming takes too much land to have any chance to feed the world in a climate-changed environment’
Science for Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) was recently asked by the farming media to comment on a policy paper issued by the ...
‘There is ‘a real possibility’ that reptiles, insects, octopuses and mammals have consciousness, scientists declare
Crows, chimps and elephants: these and many other birds and mammals behave in ways that suggest they might be conscious. And the list does ...
Want to buy the most sustainable foods? Here’s why most food labeling regulations mislead consumers
Bringing together researchers from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the University of São Paulo in Brazil, we evaluated ...
Viewpoint: Aftershocks from American Academy of Pediatrics attack on glyphosate—‘Misinformation about the genetic engineering of crops hinders the development of sustainable agriculture technologies’
Repetition creates belief. And claims about the harms of glyphosate have persisted for decades. Unfortunately, even medical organizations like the ...
Here’s how crop biotechnology is regulated in the United States
Biotechnology, including genetic engineering and gene editing technology like CRISPR, is enabling developers to improve the genetics of a growing ...
Emboldened by the growing vaccine rejectionism movement, opponents of fluoride ramp up their campaigns
Regina Barrett, a 69-year-old retiree who lives in this small North Carolina city southeast of Charlotte, has not been happy ...
It affects 50 million Americans, and for now it’s incurable. Here’s what we know about the ear ringing disorder tinnitus — and its possible links to COVID-19 and vaccines
In March of 2021, the CEO and founder of the Texas Roadhouse steakhouse chain, Kent Taylor, committed suicide. According to ...
Viewpoint: The EPA’s current regulatory regime restricts farmers’ ability to fight pests and climate change
Plant pests and disease have a massive global impact, causing the loss of 20–40% of crop production and costing over USD 220 ...
TVA explained: How fatty acids in meat and dairy can help ward off cancer
Dietary nutrients play a crucial role in providing your body with energy, building blocks, and regulatory molecules. How all these ...
How prehistoric agriculture spread from the Fertile Crescent south through Africa
The Neolithic age – when agriculture and animal farming were adopted – has become one of the most widely studied ...
Fabricated and plagiarized data plague scientific research — and the impacts are far-reaching and long-lasting
Far too many scientific papers are being retracted from prestigious scientific journals because scientists fabricated or falsified data. Although no ...
Personalized genetic cancer treatments key in increasing longevity and quality of life
Personalized, or precision, medicine applied to cancer treatment has its origins in studies of human genetics and the genetic mutations ...
Viewpoint: Consumer Reports flunks Chemistry 101 — again — in scientifically illiterate, reckless, data-manipulated claim that conventional produce poses ‘serious pesticide risks’
Headlines about harmful pesticides in conventional foods are lying to you in order to create fear. Another day, another post ...
GLP podcast: Golden Rice delayed in the Philippines; Ozempic could reshape our food supply? Exposing myths about cancer risk
A court in the Philippines has blocked the release of vitamin-A fortified Golden Rice in the country. What happens next? ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why the U.S. cannot afford widespread rejection of vaccines
Two senior FDA officials, including Dr. Robert Califf, the agency head, recently published a journal article entitled "Is Vaccination Approaching a Dangerous ...
From 72 to 400: US announces expansion of number of agricultural chemicals it will monitor
For several years, biologist Nathan Donley has worried about the future of a pesticide database run by the U.S. Geological ...
Andrew Wakefield and the fabricated history of the alleged vaccine-autism link
The claim that vaccines cause autism is entirely false. Extensive research has consistently shown no link between vaccines and autism. In ...
Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares
During the outbreak of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, epidemiology ha assumed an outsized role in the public consciousness. It was pervasive ...
Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again
Over and over, the term ‘organic’ is used as an umbrella for a variety of qualitative features in food. There ...
How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems
Can GLP-1 drugs for obesity and diabetes, like Ozempic and Wegovy, help change the food industry? Consumers on these drugs ...
GLP Podcast: Organic food industry marketing fraud; 200 dangerous chemicals in drinking water?
Are organic foods really pesticide-free? Nope. Organic industry marketing misinformation is everywhere. An anonymous French whistleblower claims to have found ...
Avian flu virus detected in raw milk from infected dairy cows. Are we in danger of it spreading to our food supply?
It was three months ago when we wrote about the surge of the H5N1 bird flu strain that had by then already ...
How IARC and other ‘independent’ global cancer assessment agencies can distort the public’s understanding of the risks of cancer
Cancer is a catch-all for hundreds of unique diseases, which develop when cells in your body no longer listen to ...
