Science Controversies
How to concoct a conspiracy theory about vaccines, GMOs, climate science and other controversial issues
A case study. 1. Find something online that is related to your subject. 2. Cherry-pick partial quotes that seem to support your position (here, ...
Can farmers reduce toxic agricultural chemicals by tricking pests with pheromone-producing biotech plants?
Pesticides are necessary evil in farming, and are likely to remain so. But what if we could replace some of ...
Middle schoolers say, “Of course GMOs are not harmful, but maybe…”
History laughs at the losing teams whose scientific theories crumble under the weight of evidence. The Sun orbits the Earth ...
Video: Mark Lynas says, “GMOs are green”
Mark Lynas, a UK-based environmentalist and former anti-biotech activist, spoke to Real Agriculture editor Lyndsey Smith before giving the keynote address at ...
USDA report says GM crops show mix of benefits, concerns
After more than 15 years of using genetically modified crops, U.S. farmers are continuing to see an array of benefits, ...
Latest on the latest anti-GMO scare: Dangerous plant GMO is in your blood
The truth is that there may or may not be plant DNA in your blood. The single research paper making ...
Maui citizens group pushes for GMO moratorium
Come November, the citizens of Maui County could be voting on a temporary suspension of all genetically modified crop production ...
FDA meetings on ‘3-parent’ IVF, gene manipulation continues
As the FDA takes on the controversial issue of mitochondrial manipulation and gene therapy, ethical issues arise. Critics and proponents ...
A forensic approach to canine waste management
If you want to get an idea of how advanced a technology has become, you could look at the most ...
How should Congress and the FDA respond to calls to label foods with GMOs?
According to Henry Miller, a physician and the founding director of the Office of Biotechnology at the FDA, and Drew ...
Viewpoint: A Faustian bargain on labeling genetically engineered food
This article originally ran at Forbes and has been republished here with permission of the author. Pseudo-controversy continues to rage ...
I said Syngenta wasn’t listening to farmers about GMO corn—Maybe I was wrong
Syngenta took exception to a couple of issues that raised on this site and responded to the question on if ...
The promise of GMOs evaluated: Herbicides
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
GMO 2.0: New generation of blight-resistant foods
Blight-resistant vegetables could be great for farmers, as well as for the environment. Potatoes are sprayed against blight up to ...
Southern sugar cane industry, threatened by deadly fungus, look to GMO solution
Brown rust fungus poses a serious threat to Louisiana's nearly $1 billion sugarcane industry. Thanks to funding from the American ...
European scientists on African mission to break biotech logjam
Africa is expected to be the next target of GM food companies, as European scientists and policymakers travel to Ethiopia ...
How GMOs saved my life
GMOs weren’t personal until I almost died. After one ambulance ride and three days of wearing a heart monitor with ...
Germline modification: Should people have the right to be disabled?
We're on the verge of using genetic therapy to remove the risk of disability in unborn children. Would doing so ...
We should use genetic engineering to treat disease, not fundamentally alter future children
The mitochondrial manipulation that the FDA is considering would start us down the slippery slope toward human experimentation with unknown ...
GMOs in fem care products can kill you? Not if you follow the science
Last week, the tweets were flying furiously in a "Right to Know" campaign regarding fem care products (for more information, ...
More risk from conventional breeding than with genetic modification
Fred Gould, an entomologist at North Carolina State University, used Lenape potatoes as an example of risk and uncertainty. Often, people frame ...
Biopolitics: Science denialism transcends party differences
The public's views on embryonic stem cell research has less to do with political party identification, ideology, religious identify, self-rated ...
He said/She said: Are GMO “secrets” just inconvenient truths?
Well know activist-author Robyn O'Brien's recent post on the Huffington Post's Food for Thought blog, slams GMOs in nine points ...
Evaluating competing claims about genetically modified crops
The arguments for and against GMOs began at the technology's inception, in the 1980s, and have changed little since. But ...
German pro-biotech group slams EU for allowing member steps to block planting of GMO crops
The EU Commission is about to approve a GM maize but is poised to allow a controversial opt-out option for ...
The Promise of GMOs: Removing cancer causing mycotoxins from our food supply
As part of Biology Fortified’s serious The Promise of GMO‘s, geneticist Anastasia Bodnar, the co-founder of the website, asks: Have GMOs lived ...
Genetically altered barley could boost Scotland’s whisky industry
Scientists are planning genetically to alter barley in a bid to boost Scotland’s whisky industry. Barley is a key ingredient ...
