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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 ...
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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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Podcast: Growing jetfuel? How genetically-engineered camelina is making sustainable biofuels a reality

Mitch Ratcliffe, Oliver Peoples | 
The future lies in our farmlands — as the fossil fuels industry fades, crops like camelina, a flowering seed oil ...
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Podcast: A scientist alerted a journal that an article was based on cherry-picked data. Its ‘response’ illustrates the challenges in counteracting disinformation

Kevin Folta, Lonni Besançon | 
Scientists are encouraged to step into the public conversation around controversial work, especially when that work seems to deliberately misinform, ...
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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) ...
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GLP podcast and video: Ice cream cuts obesity risk? Anti-vaccine study retracted; If you’re afraid of chemicals, quit drinking alcohol

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Could ice cream reduce your risk of diabetes and obesity? A surprising amount of evidence supports that hypothesis. How do ...
Audio: Jennifer Doudna on how diseases can be permanently cured using CRISPR gene editing, reshaping the arc of evolution

Audio: Jennifer Doudna on how diseases can be permanently cured using CRISPR gene editing, reshaping the arc of evolution

In 2011, biochemist Jennifer Doudna helped discover the genetic editing tool CRISPR. Today CRISPR is actively deployed in clinical trials ...
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Podcast and video: Animal mRNA vaccines under fire; Too many antibiotics in agriculture? Does ‘Big Ag’ control the global seed market?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The same technology that yielded COVID-19 vaccines could help protect livestock from deadly diseases, but a growing chorus of skeptics ...
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GLP podcast and video: ESG undermines sustainable farming? Top-10 anti-biotech propagandists; FDA’s ‘healthy’ food labels

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) metrics are supposed to help promote sustainable industry, but could they actually undermine efforts to make farming more ...
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GLP podcast and video: ‘Clean’ cosmetics aren’t so clean; England embraces CRISPR crops; Gene-edited animals produce 30 percent more meat

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
So-called "clean" cosmetics have become a big business in recent years. But as with food fads like "Non-GMO," clean cosmetics ...
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GLP podcast: ‘Only 60 harvests left,’ debunked; Beating pesticide resistance; ‘Regulation through litigation’ threatens sustainable farming?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Have we so badly depleted the world's soil that we only have 60 harvests left? No. New "green" pesticides could ...
Podcast: Can we ‘manipulate the body’s natural electric fields’ to treat wounds, depression, paralysis and cancer?

Podcast: Can we ‘manipulate the body’s natural electric fields’ to treat wounds, depression, paralysis and cancer?

Terry Gross | 
Scientists are looking into ways to manipulate the body's natural electrical fields to try and treat wounds, depression, paralysis, and ...
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GLP podcast and video: EWG’s ‘Dirty Dozen,’ debunked; On pesticides, trust experts, not ideologues; Ukraine war derails EU’s Farm-To-Fork proposal

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
It's the time of year when Environmental Working Group (EWG) puts out its much-ballyhooed "dirty dozen" list of fruits and ...
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GLP podcast and video: Low-carb diets cause heart disease? Economic de-growth or ‘green’ growth?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Many people have turned to low-carb diets as a way to shed unwanted body fat, but a new study suggests ...
Podcast: Why modern-day animals are so much smaller than dinosaurs

Podcast: Why modern-day animals are so much smaller than dinosaurs

Eyder Peralta | 
Researchers think they understand how some dinosaurs grew so large. NPR's Eyder Peralta talks with Michael D'Emic, paleontologist at Adelphi ...
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GLP podcast and video: Eating bugs safe? Pesticide use exploding? COVID and trust in science

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The European Union is all too happy to allow consumers to eat potentially dangerous bug-based food, yet it remains hostile ...
Podcast: ‘Adoption, Twins and the Genetics of Personality’ — Childhood adoption study informs nature vs nurture debate

Podcast: ‘Adoption, Twins and the Genetics of Personality’ — Childhood adoption study informs nature vs nurture debate

Cole Hons | 
Social scientists have long sought to better understand how and why different behavioral traits develop in different individuals. The question ...
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GLP Podcast & Video: FDA checks chocolate-heart health claims; Cure for binge drinking? Gene-edited wheat may cut cancer risk

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Does dark chocolate reduce your heart disease risk? The FDA says candy companies need to tread lightly when it comes ...
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GLP Podcast & Video: Synthetic biology makes $10,000 perfume way cheaper; ‘Fashionable organic fantasies’ at the WEF; Sleeping pills cause dementia?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A bottle of perfume used to cost more than $10,000. The price has dropped precipitously thanks to advancements in synthetic ...
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Podcast and video: Fighting cystic fibrosis with viruses; Soaring seed prices; Europe’s byzantine plant-breeding rules persist

Kevin Folta, Michelle Horning | 
Cystic fibrosis is a fatal condition that claims patients at an early age, so why does it persist? Soaring seed ...
GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of 'bioengineered' food labels

GLP podcast and video: Universities host anti-science quack Vandana Shiva (again); Communist Cuba is pro-GMO; 1 year of ‘bioengineered’ food labels

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Dozens of researchers recently blasted two universities for inviting anti-vaccine, anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva to speak. Why do America's academic ...
Podcast: Gene-edited mixed salad greens are coming in 2023, one of the first CRISPR foods to be released

Podcast: Gene-edited mixed salad greens are coming in 2023, one of the first CRISPR foods to be released

Willie Vogt | 
There was quite a bit of buzz when the idea of gene edited crops first became public. But what can ...
GLP Podcast: Smoking, drinking fueled by genetics? Women more empathetic than men; Enthusiasm for HIV vaccine wanes

GLP Podcast: Smoking, drinking fueled by genetics? Women more empathetic than men; Enthusiasm for HIV vaccine wanes

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
If you drink alcohol or smoke cigarettes, a growing body of evidence suggests that your genetics may have predisposed you ...
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Podcast: ‘Disinformation feedback loop’ — GLP’s Jon Entine and geneticist Kevin Folta expose web of anti-biotech groups — and their anti-vaxx, cult-promoting funding sources

Jon Entine, Kevin Folta | 
The Genetic Literacy Project is a popular and respected science organization that promotes innovation and research using the cutting-edge tools ...
GLP Facts and Fallacies Podcast and Video: 'Industrial' farming unsustainable? Junk science and academic freedom; Oxalate, the new dietary bogeyman

GLP Facts and Fallacies Podcast and Video: ‘Industrial’ farming unsustainable? Junk science and academic freedom; Oxalate, the new dietary bogeyman

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Are our current farming practices unsustainable? If so, how do we make them sustainable? Academic freedom enables researchers to pursue ...
GLP Facts & Fallacies Podcast and Video: Curing 'incurable' leukemia? Cowardly corporations; Glyphosate hasn't tainted school lunches

GLP Facts & Fallacies Podcast and Video: Curing ‘incurable’ leukemia? Cowardly corporations; Glyphosate hasn’t tainted school lunches

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A new gene-editing technique known as base editing may have helped doctor's cure a young girls "incurable" cancer. Why are ...
Perceiving without seeing: How light resets your internal clock

Podcast: How blind people time sleep and eating without the light-driven circadian clock

Perceiving without seeing: How light resets your internal clock ...
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