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Podcast: CRISPR can cause cancer? Vitamin B6 may fight depression; COVID ‘groupthink’
CRISPR gene editing has already proved to be a useful biomedical tool, but a recent study indicates it may damage ...
Your household trash could be used to power jets. Here’s how
Governments around the world have challenged the airline industry to convert to completely sustainable fuel by 2050. But what is ...
Viewpoint: Why genetic engineering of livestock is compatible with sustainable and humane treatment of animals
Society faces challenges to feed a growing population with a reliable supply of wholesome food, produced to high standards of ...
How social justice activists are undermining New Zealand’s efforts to produce a sustainable farming system
Sometimes—often, even—a singular ideological focus can have unintended consequences in food production that actually undermines the social justice goals that ...
In the wake of Biden’s COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound
When he headed the Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Frank Young used to admonish his minions that sometimes regulations need ...
Viewpoint: ‘It could have been avoided’ — The background story of Sri Lanka’s reckless experiment to go all organic and reject crop protection chemicals
The images of agitated Sri Lankans storming into their country’s presidential residence in reaction to the mishandling of farm policy by their ...
Do ‘bionic’ reading devices actually work?
What if something as simple as bolding parts of a word could make reading a breeze, improving your focus, speed ...
Exploring Prophet Muhammad’s Hebraic descent
In the West, the discussion on the origins of Prophet Muhammad has been the subject of limited studies. Traditional and ...
Viewpoint: Collapse of the organic-farming experiment in Sri Lanka has not shamed activist-philosopher Vandana Shiva and other GMO rejectionists
Sri Lanka ran an evil experiment on its citizens last year. Under the sway of nitwit organic-food activists, the government ...
Part II: Web of Disinformers: The network of anti-crop biotechnology activists, and the funders behind their campaigns
Carey Gillam, once a reporter at Reuters covering food and farming, left her job under a cloud, challenged by her ...
GLP Podcast: EPA’s political weedkiller rules; GMO-derived beer on sale; Anti-glyphosate webinar review
The Biden Administration just overruled its own scientists at the EPA, mandating regulations that effectively ban the low-risk, effective weedkiller ...
IVF success rate is 30%. Genetic factors more than environment may explain why it’s so unsuccessful
It has been almost 44 years years since the first in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure was successfully performed in 1978 ...
Part I: Carey Gillam — Reporter turned organic propagandist who twists science in campaign to discredit biotechnology and conventional agriculture
With links to the Church of Scientology, anti-vaccine glyphosate litigator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Organic Consumers Association, US Right to ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO advocates are losing ground
The anti-Genetic Engineering movement is on shaky ground because it has let its beliefs blind it to the strong scientific ...
The hapless male Y chromosome finally has a purpose
I’ve never been fond of the human Y chromosome. Yes, the all-important SRY gene sets the early embryo on a path towards ...
Transhumanism to humankind’s rescue? A new book claims we face a ‘make or break’ century, so let the technological remake begin
Ageing cured. Death conquered. Work ended. The human brain reverse-engineered by AI. Babies born outside of the womb. Virtual children, ...
Why meat and milk from gene-edited hornless cows are safe to eat
Scientists have known for many years that genetically engineered (GE) crops pose no greater risk to human health or the ...
Health and autonomy: How COVID has challenged already-tenuous balance among public health, religion and personal values
Exactly two years ago, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. At the time, 118,000 cases and 4,000 deaths ...
In the Battle to Regulate GMOS, Gene Editing and other New Breeding Techniques, Who Has ‘Hazard Blood’ on their Hands?
This third segment in the mini-series will look at the networks of highly-motivated campaigners manipulating policy and pushing the hazard-based ...
Why China’s embrace of GMO corn and soy will change policies in South Africa and the rest of the continent
Chinese National Crop Variety Approval Committee released two standards that clear the path for cultivating genetically modified (GM) crops in the country ...
Podcast: Guardian’s glyphosate hysteria debunked; Intensive farming and pandemics; Where did dogs come from?
There's probably minute quantities of weedkiller in your urine. Should you panic? No. Will technological advances in farming reduce or ...
Viewpoint: Follow the science? Biden Administration politicizes EPA by ignoring its own scientists in backdoor way to ban atrazine. It will harm farming and increase food prices
The No. 1 crop in America is corn. It’s a major ingredient in thousands of food and beverage items as ...
‘Disconnection, isolation, depression’: Long COVID has heightened our awareness of the critical role sense plays in life
The number of people experiencing lost or distorted olfaction has risen astronomically during the COVID-19 pandemic. One study indicates that ...
The Guardian and Carey Gillam join long list of activists who misrepresent the science of glyphosate and exaggerate the risk of pesticides
Within hours after journalist Carey Gillam’s article in The Guardian reported that the US Centers for Disease Control had found ...
Viewpoint: When do politicians sometimes act like bacteria? When it comes to enacting necessary but politically risky policies to control the latest COVID surge
I’ve long noted fundamental similarities between bacteria and politicians. It might seem an odd comparison, but both groups are highly ...
Viewpoint: Reject anti-technology hyperbole — High-yield, intensive farming, agricultural sustainability and nature conversation can co-exist
By re-purposing the less productive agricultural land and creating farmland bird friendly habitat, songbird numbers doubled while arable crop yields ...
Deep voice, height, testosterone levels, angular face, finger digit ratio, muscularity: Which male trait best predicts finding a partner and having children?
In a massive meta-analysis that was years in the making, psychologists from the University of Durham and the University of ...
