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Viewpoint: ‘Imposing impoverishment’ — How European leadership has failed by promoting ideological solutions to sustainability challenges in farming

David Zaruk | 
It is hard to find anyone with anything positive to say about 2022: economic, social, ethical, political, geopolitical success stories ...
New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?

New wave of neuroscience: Tech companies experimenting with controversial brain-focused products?

Michael Nolan | 
Consumer-facing neurotechnology could make computers more accessible — and pose a new kind of threat to data privacy ...
How can we decrease risks of getting genetic-based diseases even if we carry potentially harmful genes?

How can we decrease risks of getting genetic-based diseases even if we carry potentially harmful genes?

Henry Miller | 
The study of genetics has always been an attempt to understand our biologically determined fate. Many of us know of ...
5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

5 influential activist NGOs spreading crop biotechnology misinformation in Latin America

Luis Ventura | 
The United States and Europe are home to some of the most influential anti-biotechnology advocacy groups in the world. They ...
Viewpoint: How to interpret the crude racial categories that have historically defined human biological variation

Viewpoint: How to interpret crude racial categories that have historically defined human biological variation

Michael Schulson | 
Racial categories are crude maps imposed on human biological variation. How do scientists square them with genetics? ...
Electricity from thin air? Energy-producing bacteria has ‘potential to power small, sustainable air-powered devices in the future’

Electricity from thin air? Energy-producing bacteria has ‘potential to power small, sustainable air-powered devices in the future’

It may sound surprising, but when times are tough and there is no other food available, some soil bacteria can ...
Viewpoint: How social justice ideology is infecting the nascent field of astrobiology

Viewpoint: How social justice ideology is infecting the nascent field of astrobiology

Lawrence Krauss | 
Astrobiology: Premature claims, distorted results, and ‘decolonizing’ the search for extraterrestrial intelligence ...
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GLP podcast & video: Harmful chemicals in fish? How your genes affect the drugs you take; 3 pesticide myths debunked

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Are you getting a potentially toxic dose of chemicals every time you eat fish? A new study has raised this ...
Cracks appear in Europe’s opposition to CRISPR gene editing and other New Breeding Technologies

Cracks appear in Europe’s opposition to CRISPR gene editing and other New Breeding Technologies

Steven Cerier | 
Despite what the anti-genetic engineering forces want you to believe, there is growing political, scientific and agricultural support across Europe for ...
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Haeckel v. Miklucho-Maclay: The 19th century battle between a race scientist and his indigenous-rights supporting protégé

Vivek Venkataraman | 
Ernst Haeckel pushed race science as his little-known protégé Nikolai Miklucho-Maclay defended Indigenous rights ...
Viewpoint: ‘These forests will never recover’ — Climate change-associated fires stump reforestation efforts

Viewpoint: ‘These forests will never recover’ — Climate change-associated fires stump reforestation efforts

Jim O'Donnell | 
On April 6, 2022, a prescribed fire driven by unusually strong spring winds jumped a control line northwest of Las ...
Balding throughout the ages

Balding throughout the ages

Glen Jankowski | 
Balding is really common, affecting more than 50% of men. It’s also physically inconsequential (bald men live just as long ...
Viewpoint: Green activists claim we can feed the world with organic-grown crops. Here’s a reality check

Viewpoint: Green activists claim we can feed the world with organic-grown crops. Here’s a reality check

Marcel Bruins | 
It is commonly believed that organic farmers do not use pesticides and that organic food is therefore safer to consume ...
(Conversation) Superbugs: Climate change is spurring a dangerous rise in antibiotic resistant in humans and animals

Superbugs: Climate change spurs dangerous rise in antibiotic resistance in humans and animals

Branwen Morgan | 
he next time you need to take antibiotics, they may not work. So you may be prescribed a different antibiotic, ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s the wacky formula used by Environmental Working Group to stoke unwarranted fears about safe chemicals

Chuck Dinerstein | 
“Eating one bass is equivalent to drinking PFOS-tainted water for a month.” Those are the words of Scott Faber, senior ...
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GLP podcast and video: ChatGPT more empathetic than doctors? How ideology corrupts science; Testing drugs on mini-organs, not animals

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Is ChatGPT more empathetic than your doctor? A recent study seems to suggest so. An emerging consensus of scientists is ...
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How COVID can lodge itself in our brains

Ricki Lewis | 
As the fourth year of the pandemic dawns, a study published in Nature from Daniel Chertow, MD, MPH, head of ...
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Viewpoint: Social media amplifies misinformation — No, modern pesticides are not the driver of insect declines and no, they are not poisoning us

Marcel Bruins | 
The aim of the European Seed series on Myths, Fake News, Misinformation and Disinformation is to dive deeper, taking a closer ...
Viewpoint: Do we need to curtail economic expectations to ensure that we have enough food to feed the planet?

Viewpoint: Do we need to curtail economic expectations to ensure that we have enough food to feed the planet?

Stuart Smyth | 
A little over 200 years ago, one of the noted economists and philosophers of the day, Thomas Malthus published an essay ...
It’s been nearly 60 years since the first known transgender surgery took place in the United States. Here’s what’s happened since.

It’s been nearly 60 years since the first known transgender surgery took place in the United States. Here’s what’s happened since.

G. Samantha Rosenthal | 
Enforcement of binary gender norms has led to unwanted medical interventions on intersex and cisgender children ...
Personalized genetics key in increasing longevity and quality of life

Personalized genetic cancer treatments key in increasing longevity and quality of life

Henry Miller, Joel Tepper | 
Personalized, or precision, medicine applied to cancer treatment has its origins in studies of human genetics and the genetic mutations ...
30 years of waiting for an insect-resistant tomato but questions about taste may limit its market

30 years of waiting for an insect-resistant tomato but questions about taste may limit its market

Kristin Houser | 
A tenacious plant breeder has developed more than a dozen new lines of naturally pest-resistant tomatoes — foreshadowing a future in ...
Why Africa was the crucible for the transition of early humans from forest-inhabiting fruit-eater to savanna-dwelling hunter

How Africa evolved as the crucible for early human transition from forest-inhabiting fruit-eaters to savanna-dwelling hunters

Norman Owen-Smith | 
That humans originated in Africa is widely accepted. But it’s not generally recognised how unique features of Africa’s ecology were ...
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Europe dragging its feet on CRISPR deregulation assessment. Here’s how the process has been politicized

Joost van Kasteren | 
If the European Union wants to fully utilize the genetic potential of crops, new breeding technologies (NBTs) should be treated ...
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GLP podcast and video: Golden Rice hits another roadblock; Glyphosate protects endangered species; Growing medicine in GMO crops

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
The Philippines recently approved the cultivation of Golden Rice to prevent blindness and death caused by vitamin A deficiency (VAD) ...
Pharmacy shelves are bare of many critical drugs. Reciprocity between the US and other countries could help address that 

Pharmacy shelves are bare of many critical drugs. Reciprocity between the US and other countries could help address that 

Henry Miller | 
Dr. Deborah Greenhouse, a pediatrician in South Carolina, tweeted on February 1,  OK pediatricians, I'm starting a new contest: Who ...
Viewpoint: Subverting the science of crop biotechnology — Leaked document from German NGO illustrates 'scandalous' strategy by anti-biotech activists to manipulate the public

Viewpoint: Subverting the science of crop biotechnology — Leaked document from German NGO illustrates ‘scandalous’ strategy by anti-biotech activists to manipulate the public

David Zaruk | 
A leaked internal document from the German anti-biotech NGO community recently found its way to the Risk-Monger’s dusty basement. As ...
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