Science Controversies
What’s next as FDA moves to grant full approval of COVID shots: Changing vaccine hesitant minds or more employee mandates?
The Food and Drug Administration on [August 23] offered its first full authorization for a coronavirus vaccine — the Pfizer-BioNTech ...
Public split on how to address Delta surge: Most favor mandatory masks but cautious on requiring vaccinations for kids
As the spread of the delta variant threatens the safety of classrooms, a poll released [August 11] found nearly two-thirds ...
EU approves 10 GMO crops — corn, soybean, oilseed rape and cotton — for use as food and feed
The EU Commission has authorised seven GMO crops – three maize, two soybeans, one oilseed rape and one cotton – ...
We have numerous vaccines, but still no effective COVID treatments. Why not?
Nearly a year and a half into the pandemic, researchers are still struggling to find effective, easy-to-use drugs to treat ...
Drudgery relief advantages of GMOs: Genetically engineered corn in South Africa reduces burden of hand-weeding on women
Although there is an extensive and growing body of literature on the economic impact of the adoption of GM crops ...
60% of Fox News’ COVID shot segments include vaccine denialism: Media Matters study
Despite Fox News’ public-relations campaign to rebrand its poor vaccine coverage, its reporting has worsened: In a six-week period from ...
The global population is exploding — and food security hinges upon biotech crops
The world’s population is growing. At the same time, the amount of cropland is decreasing. So now a big challenge ...
Under what legal conditions can governments and businesses mandate vaccines?
Whether a vaccine requirement is legal will depend on who is imposing it and how they have shaped it. Mandates ...
As Chinese troops falter in Tibet’s Himalayas, China launches genetic study of altitude adaptation
China has reportedly opened the world’s largest “plateau human genetic resources biological sample bank” in the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau for medical ...
‘No one I have spoken to is looking forward to enforcing mask mandates on customers’: Frontline workers fear implementing renewed restrictions
On May 13 of this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hung American frontline workers out to dry ...
Preventing the next virus outbreak: Making vaccine development and production a global mission
How do we prevent a pandemic like this from happening again? ... [We need] the ability to rapidly develop and ...
Viewpoint: Should we assume most health research is untrustworthy or fraudulent until proven otherwise?
Health research is based on trust. Health professionals and journal editors reading the results of a clinical trial assume that ...
Far right targets recruits to government conspiracy theories from vaccine skeptics
Far-right groups across the nation have aligned themselves with those opposed to masks and vaccines, seeking new allies around the ...
Viewpoint: The Great Barrington Declaration got many things right on COVID, yet it remains in ideological crosshairs
In October 2020, along with Professor Sunetra Gupta, we authored the Great Barrington Declaration, in which we argued for a ...
Social media vaccine conspiracists spread false information about alleged COVID shot fertility dangers
Dr. [Michelle] Rockwell, an Oklahoma-based family physician… saw that someone had made a collage of two of her Instagram posts ...
VaxTeen: Teenagers are learning how to circumvent their parents’ opposition to COVID vaccines
Among minors, 38% of 16- to 17-year-olds and 25% of 12- to 15-year-olds were fully vaccinated as of July 14, ...
Those infected with the Delta variant may be carrying more than a thousand times more viral particles than prior variants
People infected with the delta variant of the novel coronavirus may be carrying more than a thousand times more virus ...
Vaccine hesitant are impervious even to physician persuasion, survey shows
Personal recommendations from doctors may not help revitalize the United States' stalling COVID-19 vaccination drive, a new CBS News/YouGov poll ...
Separating hype from reality in the coming era of gene-enhanced ‘designer babies’
[W]hat new iteration of genetic testing could tempt healthy, fertile couples to reject our traditional time-tested and wildly popular process ...
‘It’s all about genetic variability’: CRISPR targets sustainable agriculture
Although CRISPR has been slower to realize agricultural applications than biotechnology and biomedical applications, it is ready to help us ...
CDC strengthens recommendations for pregnant and breast-feeding women to get COVID vaccine
CDC has released new data on the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines in pregnant people and is recommending all people ...
Wheat revolution? How CRISPR gene editing can complement conventional breeding to increase yields and disease tolerance
Last November, the 10+ Genome Project and its international team of researchers were hailed for their role in sequencing the ...
‘I am sorry for the pain this caused Black former NFL players and families’: How ‘race-norming’ brain injuries cost players tens of millions of dollars
When the settlement in the landmark NFL class-action concussion litigation was finalized in 2017, and the league agreed to pay ...
Genetic warfare: Is China on the path to developing a biological superweapon?
In 2020, after the US Justice Department indicted six Chinese researchers for hiding their [People’s Liberation Army, or] PLA connection, ...
Viewpoint — This osteopath and natural medicine peddler is the most notorious COVID disinformation spreader: Dr. Joseph Mercola
Dr. [Joseph] Mercola, 67, an osteopathic physician in Cape Coral, Fla., has long been a subject of criticism and government ...
‘US has inadequate regulatory oversight to address concerns presented by agricultural biotechnology’: US NGOs issue transparency principles and governance recommendations
Representatives of conservation and consumer non-governmental organizations unveiled six principles for responsible governance of gene editing in agriculture and the ...
Is a new California law limiting protests at COVID vaccine centers constitutional?
A proposal sailing through the California Legislature that aims to stop people from getting harassed outside vaccination sites is raising ...
