Science Controversies
New Hampshire House subcommittee begins work on GMO labeling bill
Two months after his state passed legislation requiring labels on genetically engineered foods, Maine Rep. Lance Harvell, the bill’s chief ...
Reconstructing facts in Bt cotton: Why skepticism fails
The case that the “triumph narrative” of Bt cotton in India comes mainly from economists, the biotech industry and their academic ...
What happened to the middle in the GMO debate?
The debate surrounding genetically modified organisms, often called GMOs, is an absolute mess. A huge part of the argument stems ...
Monsanto’s SmartStax maize ‘to be approved for growth in October’ in EU
A controversial, genetically modified super-maize from Monsanto is set to be approved for cultivation across the European Union by late ...
Military blood serum bank advances research, raises privacy concerns
The US Department of Defense's huge blood serum bank is great for scientific research, but not all donors know they're ...
Petition to condemn Golden Rice vandalism gains support from scientific community
An online petition to condemn the activists who destroyed a Golden Rice field trial has gained 1500 signatures in just ...
What if plants could be plastic factories?
A Massachusetts-based company is genetically engineering plants to produce an organic polymer that can be used to make biodegradable plastic ...
Petition: Global scientific community condemns the recent destruction of field trials of Golden Rice in the Philippines
Research on Golden Rice at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) is part of their humanitarian work to reduce vitamin ...
Seralini set for September UK tour to speak about his research
The most detailed scientific study ever conducted on the health effects of a genetically modified (GM) food was published last ...
Plant geneticist Kevin Folta explains GMO process in foods
When humans began to farm between ten and twenty thousand years ago, they took the seeds from their best edible ...
Visit to vandalized Golden Rice field trial
On August 9 and 10, we traveled overland 320 kilometers to the Bicol region in Southern Luzon in the Philippines ...
African countries slowly warming up to the idea of GM crops
While South Africa has long grown genetically modified (GM) crops, resistance from across most of the continent is set to ...
Glowing Plant researchers respond to Kickstarter ban
Glowing Plant project co-founder discusses Kickstarter's decision to ban GMOs ...
GM rice delivers antibodies against deadly rotavirus
A strain of rice genetically engineered to protect against diarrhoeal disease could offer a cost-effective way to protect children in ...
Agriculture expert to become first scientist CEO of Monstanto India
A 24-year agriculture veteran, Dr Gyanendra Shukla, Ph.D. (Agriculture Botany) and MBA, recently took over as Regional Lead and CEO, ...
The psychology of distrusting GMOs
Psychologists have long observed that there is a continuum in what we perceive as natural or unnatural. As the psychologist Robert Sternberg wrote in ...
GMOs and Science Denialists: A GMO Primer
Liberals often have a smug sense of superiority over conservatives when it comes to science literacy. True enough, a lot ...
Scotland: Farmers buck GM ban in hopes to reduce pesticide use
Recently, the UK Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, called on the European Union to relax strict restrictions on growing GM crops ...
Elle’s botched response to previously botched anti-GMO story
Elle has had an opportunity to redress its botched GMO coverage by opening its pages to a genuine discussion of ...
Argentine scientists develop virus resistant GM potato
Argentine scientists have developed potato plants resistant to Potato Virus Y (PVY), a disease that reduces crop yields from 20 ...
Kauai anti-GMO bill deferred to September
The Kauai County Council unanimously deferred to September 9 a controversial proposal to demand disclosure of pesticide use and genetically ...
Mother Jones’s Philpott supports Pollan “talking points” attack on NYTimes GM orange story
Anti-GMO journalist defends Michael Pollan’s backhanded attack on Amy Harmon’s NYT story on GM oranges ...
Grist: Who’s doing the research on GMO seeds?
Johnson begins a multi-step investigation into intellectual property rights. Do big biotech corporations really exercise draconian control on all biotech ...
First lab-grown burger: Groundbreaking, a bit bland, and definitely not GM
The worlds first lab-grown burger, made from muscle stem cells, was cooked and eaten in London. Despite technically delivering on ...
Foodie Michael Pollan roundly criticized for baseless “industry talking points” tweet
Michael Pollan of the University of California-Berkeley School of Journalism has had quite a week – and not in a good way ...
Tanzania: Formerly anti-GMO journalist Mark Lynas speaks out in favor of crop biotech
“In my view the controversy over GMOs represents one of the greatest science communications failures of the past half-century,” [Lynas] ...
In defense of the precautionary principle
Far from the pessimistic, innovation-strangling caricature, precaution actually celebrates the full depth and potential for human agency in knowledge and ...
