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What’s driving the ‘multi-billion dollar fear-and-smear campaign against genetically-engineered crops’ — and the link between activists and Russia?

Henry Miller, Rob Wager | 
Because most of society is between two and six generations removed from farming, to many people that subject is largely ...
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Viewpoint: What is sustainability? What are pesticides? The way media and politicians define ideologically diffuse words shape policy – often for the worse

David Zaruk | 
Reality is perceived by the definitions we give; the black and white lines we draw upon a grey canvas. So ...
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Viewpoint: Righteous Risks — Here’s how (and why) environmental advocacy groups misrepresent the risks from innovations but cynically ignore genuine dangers

David Zaruk | 
Synthetic pesticides are under constant regulatory pressure, but not organic pesticides. “Green” renewables and EVs have very little regulatory scrutiny ...
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England’s gene-editing rules could be far more restrictive than scientists hope

Daniel Pearsall, Karen Holt | 
In proposals set out in a recent public consultation document, the Food Standards Agency has confirmed its plans for implementing ...
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Crop gene editing greenlighted by European Parliament. Fight over labeling looms as measure moves to the EU Council

European Parliament | 
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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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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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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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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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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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: 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 ...
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Are children and pregnant women risking their health by eating “GMO” foods? The American Association of Pediatrics controversially says ‘yes’. The real question: Is the AAP endangering the food vulnerable?

Are foods grown using genetically modified seeds hazardous to our health? Scientists, nutritionists and the global medical establishment say ‘no’.  ...
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Viewpoint: Organic farming and sustainable agriculture are often in conflict. Here’s why

Hank Campbell | 
hen it comes to denying science, California leads America, and sometimes the world. In early 2020, for example, when the ...
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African scientists challenge activist claims that crop biotechnology revolution spreading across Africa threatens continent’s plant biodiversity 

Richard Wetaya | 
Do genetically modified (GM) pose a threat to the Africa’s plant biodiversity? ...
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Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology and chemical pseudo-science exposed — Here’s how the ‘dark money’, tort-lawyer funded Heartland Study dupes journalists and co-ops universities

David Zaruk, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Until the 1990s, research was often low-budget, done in government agencies or industry funded. But as universities acquired expensive analytical ...
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GLP podcast/video: ‘Paraquat Papers’ — Latest pesticide scandal wrongly links weedkiller to Parkinson’s

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Thousands of pending lawsuits allege that the weedkiller paraquat causes Parkinson's Disease (PD), a connection its manufacturer tried to hide ...
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Phony Whistleblower Gambit: This is how far some environmental activist groups are willing to go to corrupt science for money and ideological gain

Cameron English | 
Environmental activists rely on several go-to tactics when fomenting fear of pesticides. One of their favorite methods is recruiting fake ...
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Viewpoint: Without measurable metrics, ‘regenerative agriculture’ is often little more than a data-less claim and a form of greenwashing. Here’s how to make it more science based and sustainable

Julian Little | 
In a previous column for SSA, just under a year ago, I highlighted concerns that the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), a ...
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