Here’s how your immune system synthesizes its own antiviral drugs in response to infections

Here’s how your immune system synthesizes its own antiviral drugs in response to infections

Neil Marsh | 
Your immune system makes its own antiviral drug—blocking viruses from replicating their RNA is one way antivirals work ...
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Crop gene editing greenlighted by European Parliament. Fight over labeling looms as measure moves to the EU Council

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For a more sustainable and resilient food system, MEPs support a simpler process for NGT plants equivalent to conventional plants, ...
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Analysis: Climate activists issue scare-warnings of impending starvation, but they ignore technology’s future role in scaling productivity

Alex Smith, Emma Kovak, Patrick Brown | 
In 1968, the American scientists Paul and Anne Ehrlich published The Population Bomb. In it, The Ehrlichs foresaw widespread death and ...
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GLP podcast/video: Weed won’t improve your workout; Predatory science journals attack GMOs; Eating insects will be mandatory?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Can marijuana make your workout better? Probably not, according to a recent study. Four science publications produce a large swath ...
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Viewpoint: Big Tech-Federal government conspiracy or sound science? A government agency just canceled its $30 million dollar study designed to tell us whether cell phones can cause cancer

Geoffrey Kabat | 
Since the introduction of cell phones en masse in the 1990s, a small but vociferous faction of health advocates has ...
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Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology opponents are losing their war against genetic engineering but the battle for science is not yet won

Steven Cerier | 
It was not so long ago that the strident opponents of agricultural biotechnology were dictating the narrative over sustainable crops ...
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Darwin’s legacy: A popular new guide through the sometimes obtuse world of evolution

C. Brandon Ogbunu | 
The study of Charles Darwin is a useful exercise in the history of science, as it teaches us that the ...
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Is Alzheimer’s disease transmissible?

Ricki Lewis | 
Five people treated for pituitary dwarfism decades ago with human growth hormone (hGH) pooled from cadavers have shown cognitive decline ...
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Viewpoint: Pesticides ensure ‘sustainable productivity’ — UK farmers bemoan ‘scaremongering’ on pesticides

Daniel Pearsall | 
Three leading farmers have accused the RSPB of irresponsible scaremongering by claiming that a ‘cocktail’ of pesticides used by British farmers ...
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A nutritionist reflects on the sad state of health education about GMOs and farming at schools and universities

Ruth MacDonald | 
Ruth MacDonald, PhD, Author, Professor and Chair, Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Iowa State University, and Interim Senior ...
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Viewpoint: Why proposals to ban all 12,000 PFAS chemicals contradict science

Susan Goldhaber | 
I have previously authored many articles about per- and polyfluroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” and the misinformation ...
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Viewpoint: Ramazzini Institute — Exposing the the shadowy, dark money and tort lawyer funded anti-pesticide research organization manipulating the media and policy organizations

Robert Wager | 
Peer review came about to ensure new scientific claims are vetted by scientists prior to publication. The practice is captured ...
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GLP podcast/video: Too much cleanliness makes us sick? Protect your genetic data; Against ‘green-neocolonialism’

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Good hygiene is important, but too much of it might be contributing to chronic disease in developed countries. A data ...
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Viewpoint: Whitewash — How four obstructionist journals and their academic enablers are corrupting reporting on the science of chemicals and crop biotechnology

Andrew Porterfield, Jon Entine | 
In 2022 and 2023, two papers analyzing the intersection of genetic engineering and disinformation were published. Neither were in very ...
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Part II — Viewpoint: A case study of how organic advocates massage data from meta-studies to promote their ideological agenda

Henry Miller, S. Stanley Young | 
What is the magnitude of the data fraud polluting scientific research and what are the sources of it? ...
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Viewpoint: What’s the science (if any) behind the regenerative agriculture movement?

Mario Caccamo | 
As interest in regenerative agriculture reaches fever pitch across the value chain, NIAB is preparing the ground for a major ...
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Part I — Viewpoint: Why is trust in scientific research at an all time low?

Henry Miller, S. Stanley Young | 
The validity of much published scientific research is questionable – so how much trust should we place in it? ...
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Biological exceptionalism: How two Italian sisters lived to 100

Ricki Lewis | 
In my endless email about COVID-19 popped up a new paper analyzing the health of two Italian sisters who lived ...
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Anti-GMO Advocacy Funding Tracker: Vast network of donors and NGOs seed doubt about crop biotechnology

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Who is David and who is Goliath when it comes to the GMO debate? Anti-biotech activists have long maintained that ...
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Viewpoint: American Academy of Pediatrics fiasco — International Agency for the Research on Cancer is the cancer at the heart of the anti-glyphosate movement

Myles Power | 
In today’s world, due to the lopsided impact of the bullshit asymmetry principle, the internet is overflowing with misinformation. However, amidst ...
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GLP podcast/video: Yes, BPA is safe; ‘Fake sugar’ promotes real weight loss; How long does it take to develop a pesticide?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
A decades-long campaign alleges that BPA, a chemical used to manufacture many plastic products, is dangerous. There is no evidence ...
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Here’s how we can genetically modify soil microbiomes to reduce use of synthetic fertilizers and improve yields

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
There has been a great deal of buzz in recent years about the importance of the human microbiome; much of it ...
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Viewpoint: Are corporations and Western countries shackling African agriculture to suit their interests, as anti-GMO groups claim? Or are the activists doing the shackling?

Cameron English | 
Genetically enhanced (GE) crops, pesticides, and fertilizers have fueled an explosion in food production over the last six decades. Following ...
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Viewpoint: As concerns about plastic pollution in the ocean mount, there is a yet untapped solution — genetically-engineered bacteria that “eat” plastic. Will activists and the government block it?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ...
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Filling the gaps of what we know about the first days and weeks of the developing human embryo

Ricki Lewis | 
Several recent reports are filling in the gaps of what we know about the earliest days and weeks of human ...
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Viewpoint: Nobel laureates and 1,000 other scientists plead with European parliamentarians to ‘reject the darkness of anti-science fearmongering’ over gene editing

Mark Lynas | 
As the European Parliament prepares for a key vote on gene editing regulations next week, an open letter signed by 35 Nobel ...
Video: 10 of the most prominent anti-vaccine celebrities, from Jim Carrey to Jenny McCarthy

Video: 10 of the most prominent anti-vaccine celebrities, from Jim Carrey to Jenny McCarthy

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Why do many celebrities reject science? Watch the video below to find out which Hollywood stars are anti-vaccine. 1. Jenna ...
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