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From the Environmental Working Group to the Pesticide Action Network, food activists claim we face killer risks from chemicals. Here’s why scientists don’t agree
E coli in ready-to-eat salads? Salmonella in seafood? Spoiled ground beef? Listeria in vegetables? Pesticide traces in… everything? Each year ...
Podcast: Gene editing and public acceptance — Agricultural economist Brandon McFadden on regulatory differences in agriculture and medicine for using CRISPR
Gene editing with CRISPR/Cas, TALEN or other tools allows scientists to make directed and precise changes in DNA. The technologies ...
Viewpoint: ‘Jurassic World: Dominion’ stirs ethical reflection about biotechnology revolution
“Jurassic World: Dominion” is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline that refuses to let reality get ...
Is science racist? Genetics, evolutionary human differences and ‘critical race theory’
The killing of George Floyd at the knee of a policeman last May ignited a global wave of protest. Almost ...
Viewpoint: Sustainability challenges require us to rethink the role of meat in our world — How we raise livestock and process chicken and beef
Meat is a touchy topic. At the beginning of 2021, right-wing media jumped on a rumor that President Joe Biden ...
GLP Podcast: Teenage psychopaths? Cancer-free smokers; Pesticide propaganda in Europe
Are young people more likely to display narcissistic and psychopathic traits? If so, why? A recent study has proposed intriguing ...
Viewpoint: ‘Arrogance of affluence and ignorance of ideologues’: EU’s failing agroecology Farm-to-Fork strategy — and what can be done to ensure sustainable farming and food
The world is teetering on the brink of multiple food security crises which will lead to famines, political and social ...
Human technological innovation arose in a variety of prehistoric human civilizations
For the first few million years of human evolution, technologies changed slowly. Some three million years ago, our ancestors were ...
Is conventional ‘industrialized’, technology-driven farming ‘destroying biodiversity’ as critics claim — or saving it?
Well over 90% of food, produce and grains in the United States is grown on conventional farms. Critics stigmatize this ...
Consumer paradox: As media turn less negative on genetically modified crops, Canadian consumers remain ambivalent about innovative food products
Canadians have high trust in Canada’s food safety system, but not new food products Gauging consumer attitudes to genetically modified ...
Fertility fraud: Direct-to-consumer DNA tests show thousands of women are illegally impregnated every year by deviant doctors. The laws need updating
To thousands of women gifted with childbirth through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and their children - the practice can only ...
What are the Challenges Facing Modern Farming Around the World?
Mary Boote, Chief Executive Officer of the GlobalFarmer Network | June 12, 2018Highlights: Agricultural biotech solutions are being denied to ...
Viewpoint: Ethical concerns abound over plans for uterine transplants for trans women
Cis and Trans are words I first learned in chemistry. They describe different isomers — compounds with the same chemical ...
‘Abortion pills’: What will be the fate of emergency contraception if Roe v. Wade is overturned?
A brand of specialty mozzarella cheeses. A collection of natural-gas storage terminals. And America’s top-selling emergency contraception. At a moment ...
GLP Podcast: Vitamin-D boosted CRISPR tomatoes; Don’t fear monkeypox; Environmentalism is anti-technology
Consumers in the UK may soon have access to a gene-edited tomato that boosts their vitamin D levels. Monkeypox is ...
When does an embryo become viable? Artificial uterus in development may dramatically lower the number of weeks
With New York state easing some restrictions on late-term abortions and Virginia lawmakers proposing to do the same, the abortion debate ...
Viewpoint: Should you choose plant-based chicken over the real thing to protect the planet and your health? Here are the facts
We’ve all seen and probably tried the Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat beef burgers. Plant-based options are popping up in almost every fast-food ...
Viewpoint: Toxic fruits and vegetables? Inspired by Environmental Working Group’s chemical scare fundraising gimmick in the US, Pesticide Action Network brings disinformation to Europe
Would you feed fruits and vegetables to your family after reading these headlines? Many European consumers may not, and they’d ...
Why this is no time to ease up on efforts to contain COVID-19
Many of us in the medical community feel as though we’re having one of those dreams in which we’re shouting ...
Viewpoint: Popular Science is the latest ‘mainstream’ news source to fall into the anti-glyphosate disinformation rabbit-hole
“This Roundup ingredient might cause cancer—but the EPA won’t ban it,” Popular Science told its readers in a terribly misleading January ...
‘Hybrid of Satan’: PolitiFact debunks vaccine rejectionist film ‘Watch the Water’ claiming COVID vaccine is snake venom
A new anti-vaccine documentary ridiculously claims that the coronavirus is not a virus, but a synthetic version of snake venom that ...
How the Green Party-Led Anti-Biotechnology Movement Captured German Policy and Why it Endangers Germany’s Future Innovation in Gene Editing
Wolfgang Nellen, Emeritus Professor of Genetics, University of Kassel | June 27, 2018Highlights:Green Party’s opposition to biotechnology innovation began with its ...
Organ transplants from animal donors could be a godsend for many — but they may also provide a breeding ground for novel diseases
Three out of four new diseases are zoonotic, meaning they have evolved to infect new host species. For example, a ...
GLP Podcast: Will we ever solve the obesity crisis? Science writer Mark Schatzker
Americans are getting heavier and experts aren't sure what to do about it. Cutting fat and carbs out of our ...
Part II: Seeds of Reaction — How anti-GMO ‘progressivism’ morphed into a technophobic science rejectionist movement
Part One of this essay on the evolution of anti-GMO activism ended with an introduction to the book The Rhetoric ...
‘Unnatural selection’: How humans are altering the evolution of other animals
The bouncing orange specks could be popcorn dancing on a hot plate. But there's something odd about how they move ...
Who is your real parent? Our Father on Netflix depicts the dark side of ‘secret serial sperm donation’. My birth has a similar origin but with a more hopeful twist
"Our Father" is difficult to watch, especially if you’ve suddenly discovered as an adult that you have a never-known family ...
