Science Controversies
Consumer Union’s Michael Hansen accused of misleading legislators on GMO safety
The ideologically driven, anti-technology campaign to restrict access to safe, sustainable and affordable foods improved through biotechnology got a boost ...
Cornell GMO labeling study: 25,000 labeled items could add up to $1500 to NY family food costs per year
Current U.S. food labeling policy does not require the labeling of genetically modified (GM) foods. Voluntary labeling is an option, ...
Enviro journalist Lynas provides video evidence on Bangladesh Bt eggplant failure claim: GM crops thriving
Photos and a video documentary by prominent environmental journalist Mark Lynas show that previous reports alleging Bt brinjal failure in ...
NaturalNews’ Mike Adams threatens Forbes, GLP for ‘libeling’ what scientists call ‘quack’ health empire
Mike Adams, founder of NaturalNews.com--the immensely popular site on the web for the latest conspiracy theory, often about GMOs, and ...
Growing movement against allowing mutagenesis and cell fusion hybrid seeds in organic agriculture
It is spring planting time for farms, and, if hybrid seeds are being planted, chances are some might be genetically ...
De-masculizing RNA determines sex in silkworms, a new pathway for sex determination in animals
In the silk business, sex is money. Male silkworms weave cocoons with more silk of a higher quality than females ...
Orchard of knowledge: Artist will insert Wikipedia’s catalog into DNA of apple trees
Last year, Joe Davis, the artist in residence at George Church’s genetics lab, at Harvard Medical School, received an unmarked ...
Ultra strong measles vaccine cures woman of cancer
In a breakthrough that could offer new hope to people with some kinds of cancer, Mayo Clinic researchers say they ...
University report blames Greenpeace, radical environmentalists for blocking GM Golden Rice, costing millions of lives
A University of California report has exposed the injustice that prohibits a genetically engineered additive to rice. Without it the ...
Poop therapy: Big pharma moving towards microbiome threapies
The human body teems with trillions of microorganisms — a microbial landscape that has attracted roughly US$500 million in research ...
Mandatory labeling of GMOs does not provide consumer choice
During a short time period in the late 1990s, some food products in the European Union were labeled as containing ...
NIH to researchers: study males and females equally from cellular studies on up
Amid growing evidence that many drugs are not as effective in women as in men, the National Institutes of Health ...
Chemicals affect sperm health, now we know how
Additives known as endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) compromise male fertility by interfering with a membrane-bound calcium channel that normally controls ...
Mark Bittman’s tepid endorsement of GM overshadowed by shallow attacks on modern agriculture
Does New York Times food writer Mark Bittman get anything right? I doubt it. His recent commentary, “Leave Organic Out of ...
Atlantic: GMO labeling grassroots movement not supported by science
In more than 30 years in politics, Bobby Starr had never seen anything like it. The Vermont state senator, a Democrat, ...
Wheat growers’ association president wants GM wheat introduced to improve crops
Farmers need a strong voice in Washington, but also in their respective state capitols, notes the current president of the ...
Dolly and other animals cannot be patented says court, rattling cloning proponents
Dolly the sheep enjoyed a brief and highly publicized life as the first mammal cloned from an adult cell before ...
Greenpeace, Chinese official claim GM soybeans cause infertility, warn against US grain imports
GMO food is closely identified as a tool of Western strategic policy among Chinese military men, regardless of whether there’s ...
Big Ag fights back against New York’s GMO labeling bill
Recently, the lead sponsor of New York’s GMO labeling bill went on public radio and said that relabeling foods wouldn’t ...
Viewpoint: The New York Times food writer who is always out to lunch
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Does New York Times ...
Small-scale African farmer calls for Kenya to lift ban on GMOs
United States President Barack Obama’s ringing endorsement of biotechnology in agriculture has the potential to inspire hearts and minds in ...
Argentine neuroscientist who challenged safety of glyphosate in Monsanto’s Roundup dies
Dr. Andres Carrasco, an Argentine neuroscientist who challenged pesticide regulators to re-examine one of the world's most widely used weed ...
64 countries that have GMO labeling laws
Sixty-four nations enforce consumer "right-to-know" laws on GMO food, while the United States has little regulatory framework surrounding genetically modified ...
Anti-GMO SHAKA Movement paying $5 per signature collected in support of petition to ban GMOs in Maui
Activists pushing for a moratorium on genetically modified farming in Maui County are stepping up their efforts to gather signatures ...
GM crop licensing blocked in Lahore, Pakistan; National Bio Safety Committee’s power challenged
Justice Mansoor Ali Shah of the Lahore High Court has issued a stay against issuance of licences for genetically modified ...
Food companies need to ditch defensive strategy and launch positive campaign about GM crops’ merits
If biotech’s big guns want to seize the initiative in the GMO debate, they should ditch their defensive strategy (telling ...
Stem cell generated neurons from schizophrenics develop abnormally
Using new stem cell technology, scientists at the Salk Institute have shown that neurons generated from the skin cells of ...
