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Viewpoint: Realpolitik environmentalism is on the horizon
When was the last time you heard someone call themselves an “environmentalist”? A decade ago, self-professed environmentalists would proudly claim ...
Viewpoint: How NBC became climate activists’ PR partner and litigation ally—and why it is a symptom of a deeper ideological tilt in the news media
Suncor v. Boulder County, which the Supreme Court will hear this term, asks whether a Colorado county can sue two ...
Innovation vs. regulation? AI is revolutionizing biotechnology—but raising unintended risks and ethical concerns
The recent announcement of novel, viable viruses created by artificial intelligence (AI) was celebrated as a major advance in the ...
Fact vs misinformation: An official EU guide to GMOs and gene-edited foods
The rules governing new gene editing techniques for plants – called "new genomic techniques" (NGTs) – are being changed at ...
Viewpoint— ‘Only when it agrees with him’: How RFK Jr. bullies journals that run research that contradicts his anti-vaccine ideology
The U.S. Secretary for Health and Human Services is once again questioning a publisher on an editorial action regarding a ...
AI-driven crop innovation gets a boost from the USDA
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking steps to speed up progress in plant science by calling on universities ...
Viewpoint: Follow the money: How Bloomberg Philanthropies and the NGO Lighthouse Reports manufactured a Big Food safety scandal
What happens when you want to run a campaign, but you have very limited data and evidence? One strategy more ...
Viewpoint: Assessing and dissecting digital disinformation
Recent reports have highlighted AI-generated “doctors” spreading dubious health advice to millions of social media users. Fabricated wellness trends can ...
Viewpoint: Kennedy moves to close Big Food’s GRAS loophole—but will politically-protected Prevagen and Big Supplement slip through another?
With great fanfare, Secretary Kennedy announced the closing of the GRAS (“Generally Recognized As Safe”) loophole. But separating the rhetoric ...
Viewpoint: Will Trump’s politicization of science undermine U.S. Nobel-level research?
This story was originally published by ProPublica. For decades, physicists wrestled with a fundamental mystery of the universe. They wanted ...
AI data-center controversy: The ocean may solve the political and resource challenges—or simply relocate the environmental costs
The artificial intelligence boom is driving unprecedented demand for data centers, raising concerns about their growing energy consumption, water use ...
The politics driving Trump’s medically baseless order to break up combination childhood vaccines
President Donald Trump has ordered a reduction in childhood vaccines — publicly faulting the shots for an increase in autism ...
FDA-approved mRNA flu vaccine signals future for RNA therapeutics
Vaccines have been reliably and affordably protecting people from diseases worldwide for centuries. Until the COVID-19 pandemic, however, vaccine development was ...
What’s the political and health battle over GRAS–ingredients ‘Generally Recognized as Safe’
Behind every significant advance in US food safety lies a public health disaster that forced Congress to act. A regulatory ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s hand-picked FDA panel of physician grifters legitimizes the ‘cure-all’ peptides craze
A booming wellness market has formed around peptides—mini-proteins that affect various processes inside the body. They help regulate hunger, blood ...
GMO food scares and organic myths stall Africa’s embrace of agricultural technology and food security
Across Africa, conversations about food are becoming increasingly intertwined with conversations about science as stakeholders across the value chain work ...
Gene editing’s next frontier: Farm animals
Agriculture has always evolved through better tools. From selective breeding and artificial insemination to precision nutrition and modern biosecurity, producers ...
Fake AI celebrity endorsements of quack wellness cures are surging among the elderly
Paris Hilton’s mother Kathy recently tried the “Jell-O diet” to lose weight. She believed other celebrities – Oprah Winfrey, Doctor ...
Trojan fly: Gene-edited living insecticides could help farmers spray less
On June 3, a three-week-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, was found with fly larvae feeding on a wound. While ...
Viewpoint: Organic food costs more—but is it healthier, safer, and more nutritious? The latest science findings may surprise you.
Few symbols on food labels evoke such an immediate sense of health as the “organic seal.” Its promise of "natural" ...
AI vs AI: Can artificial intelligence contain the fake news epidemic that it has helped unleash?
Artificial intelligence doesn’t have a great reputation for veracity. Social media abounds with AI-generated concoctions, from cute images of fake animals in ...
From breakthrough to business: The challenging work of scaling gene-edited food for the public
When CRISPR technology first hit the scene in 2012, many saw its promise in tackling stubborn genetic diseases in humans ...
When anecdotes become medical advice: No, ADHD cannot be managed with supplements
If social media is to be believed, ADHD can be managed with supplements, breathing exercises, herbal remedies, and just about ...
‘The child is terrified’: Doctors on the front lines of a measles comeback speak out
This isn’t just a bad year for measles. It looks to be the start of a bad era. Confirmed measles cases just ...
Viewpoint: Cyclospora alert—explaining the devastating impact of Trump’s cuts to public health
The next foodborne illness outbreak could be much worse. That’s the concern of food safety leaders across the U.S. who ...
Activists vs. Scientists: Could “Butterfly Effect” fears derail gene-drive research targeting the flesh-eating screwworm?
The United States once defeated a ravenous, parasitic fly with mass releases of sterile insects. A genetically engineered strain could ...
The COVID vaccine turbo cancer scare is back. Science still proves it’s wrong.
A viral claim has been resuscitated. You may have seen it early in the COVID vaccine days: the claim that ...
