Rumors swirling around the web that COVID vaccines spawn variants. Here’s why that’s not true

Rumors swirling around the web that COVID vaccines spawn variants. Here’s why that’s not true

Josh Bloom | 
Are COVID vaccines responsible for creating the multiple variants that keep hitting the world? I get this question all the ...
GLP Podcast: mRNA flu shot coming soon? Dogs really can't eat chocolate; Marijuana-like 'runner's high'

GLP Podcast: mRNA flu shot coming soon? Dogs really can’t eat chocolate; Marijuana-like ‘runner’s high’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
mRNA technology gave us COVID-19 vaccines. Could it also yield more effective flu vaccines? Yes—maybe as soon as next year ...
New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing

New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing

Ricki Lewis | 
Late winter is the season for dealing with unexpected findings from DNA testing kits gifted in December. For most people, ...
Part II: How COVID upended the taboo on limiting constructive discussion about human biodiversity

Part II: How COVID upended the taboo on limiting constructive discussion about human biodiversity

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle | 
The coronavirus crisis has brought to light the societal downside of ignoring patterned, population-based differences. Consider the latest research findings ...
Viewpoint: UN sub-agency IARC bungled cancer designation of glyphosate and undermined science of assessing carcinogens

Viewpoint: UN sub-agency IARC bungled cancer designation of glyphosate and undermined science of assessing carcinogens

Susan Goldhaber | 
Testing for chemical carcinogenicity using animals is timely, costly, and for some, morally wrong. Non-traditional data consists primarily of quick, ...
The humans we haven't met yet

The humans we haven’t met yet

Jeffrey Schwartz | 
Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t. In my opinion, far too many species have been lumped together into this one ...
GLP Podcast: Illegal GMOs in India; Anti-aging myths; Can social media 'brainwash' us?

GLP Podcast: Illegal GMOs in India; Anti-aging myths; Can social media ‘brainwash’ us?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Farmers in India are growing illegal GE eggplant in hopes of overturning the country's ban on the insect-resistant crop. Anti-aging ...
What’s the best way to reduce the risk of preventable cancers of the stomach, kidneys, colon, breast and urinary tract? 5 hours of exercise a week

What’s the best way to reduce the risk of preventable cancers of the stomach, kidneys, colon, breast and urinary tract? 5 hours of exercise a week

American Cancer Society | 
A new report finds more than 46,000 cancer cases annually in the United States could be prevented if Americans met ...
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Part I: Viewpoint—Many people believe ‘human biodiversity’ is alt-right code for embracing racism. Here’s why they are dangerously wrong

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle | 
Why do some people equate the phrase “human biodiversity” with racism? And what does it really mean? HBD, as its ...
Next generation flu shots could be mRNA technology-based

Next generation flu shots could be mRNA technology-based

Cameron English | 
The rapid development of mRNA-based COVID vaccines has sparked fresh interest in earlier efforts to produce new and hopefully more ...
GLP Podcast: Biotech fish 'invade' Brazil; TikTok GMO-sterility myth debunked; Bad diet and dementia

GLP Podcast: Biotech fish ‘invade’ Brazil; TikTok GMO-sterility myth debunked; Bad diet and dementia

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A genetically engineered "GloFish" is swimming freely in Brazil's streams. Should we be worried? Despite a popular conspiracy circulating on ...
Viewpoint: Eugenics has become unacceptable in modern society — except when it’s used to support termination of genetically abnormal fetuses

Viewpoint: Eugenics has become unacceptable in modern society — except when it’s used to support termination of genetically abnormal fetuses

Diana Fleischman | 
American partisan politics has just been inflamed by implementation of a Texas ban on abortions once an embryo’s heartbeat is ...
Will Homo longi elbow aside Neanderthals as our closest relative?

Will Homo longi elbow aside Neanderthals as our closest relative?

Anthony Sinclair | 
In 1933 a mysterious fossil skull was discovered near Harbin City in the Heilongjiang province of north-eastern China. Despite being ...
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Lefty or righty? Is handedness genes or chance?

Tabitha Powledge | 
Many geniuses, from Einstein to Bill Gates were lefties. But left-handedness remains a rarity--only 1 in 10 of us are ...
GLP Podcast: Loneliness causes dementia? Parkinson's-fighting GM tomatoes; 'Sovietizing' science

GLP Podcast: Loneliness causes dementia? Parkinson’s-fighting GM tomatoes; ‘Sovietizing’ science

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Loneliness could drastically boost your risk of developing dementia. Genetically engineered tomatoes may be our first line of defense against ...
For the first time, CRISPR gene editing tools were injected into the human body — and cured a patient's blindness. What’s next?

For the first time, CRISPR gene editing tools were injected into the human body — and cured a patient’s blindness. What’s next?

Mark McCord | 
More evidence for the efficacy of a groundbreaking new gene-editing medical procedure has emerged, deepening hope it will provide one-shot treatments or ...
Viewpoint: From forced confessions to believing that vaccines cause autism, brainwashing has a harsh history

Viewpoint: From forced confessions to believing that vaccines cause autism, brainwashing has a harsh history

Joel Dimsdale | 
In 1937, the longtime Bolshevik leader Georgy Pyatakov was tried in Moscow for treason, sabotage and other alleged crimes against ...
Pet love: Humans nurture their animals as they parent their children. Here’s the evolutionary reason why

Pet love: Humans nurture their animals as they parent their children. Here’s the evolutionary reason why

Shelly Volsche | 
Have you noticed more cats riding in strollers lately? Or bumper stickers that read, “I love my granddogs”? You’re not ...
GLP Podcast: Trauma changes your DNA? Lifelike sex robots; Have we cured leukemia?

GLP Podcast: Trauma changes your DNA? Lifelike sex robots; Have we cured leukemia?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Can traumatic life experiences leave an imprint on our DNA that we pass down to our children? Get ready, because ...
Some endangered species can no longer survive in the wild. So should we alter their genes to protect them?

Some endangered species can no longer survive in the wild. So should we alter their genes to protect them?

TIffany Kosch | 
Around the world, populations of many beloved species are declining at increasing rates. According to one grim projection, as many as ...
What science says about the future of COVID-19

What science says about the future of COVID-19

Henry Miller, Melissa Hart | 
With pandemic fatigue becoming more intense, there is increasing speculation about when the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, might become ...
Understanding the ‘runner’s high’: How exercising creates a natural marijuana-like euphoria

Understanding the ‘runner’s high’: How exercising creates a natural marijuana-like euphoria

Hilary Marusak | 
Many people have experienced reductions in stress, pain and anxiety and sometimes even euphoria after exercise. What’s behind this so-called ...
Question the ‘lab leak’ theory but don’t call it a conspiracy

Question the ‘lab leak’ theory but don’t call it a conspiracy

Ivan Oransky | 
A warning: This article will not tell you whether SARS-CoV-2 escaped from a lab and set off the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
GLP Podcast: Don't 'cancel' Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

GLP Podcast: Don’t ‘cancel’ Joe Rogan?; Psychopaths among us; Green Revolution saved $83 trillion

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The recent campaign to "cancel" comedian Joe Rogan for promoting COVID misinformation highlights a troubling trend in science communication. High-functioning ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups ‘using the COVID lab-leak theory to spur opposition to a wide swath of important, even life-saving, biotechnologies’

Cameron English | 
Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a ...
Sandy From the Mountains dies from COVID-19, leaving a message to the unvaxxed

Sandy From the Mountains dies from COVID-19, leaving a message to the unvaxxed

Ricki Lewis | 
Sandy and her husband lived in a cabin nestled into a mountainside in a small town in the Rockies, next ...
Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns

Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns

Anna Krylov, Jay Tanzman | 
Earlier this year, I (Anna) did something that my friends feared I would come to regret: I publicly spoke out ...
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