Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: New York Times cancels unorthodox columnist Pamela Paul known for challenging ideological orthodoxy
I am pretty sure I predicted this, though I’m not going to trawl back through my posts to see for ...
Viewpoint: Here is how ideologically-corrupted academicians manufacturer fear by linking pesticides and pancreatic cancer
The first step is to publish the results in a scientific journal, preferably of a good standard. Contrary to what ...
Breakthrough technologies: Global poll highlights embrace of AI in health care, gene editing and cell based meat, although optimism of U.S. respondents lags
Scientific advances will only succeed if people are willing to embrace them. Leaps by Bayer (the company’s impact investment arm) ...
A guide for pediatricians talking to skeptical parents about vaccines
The New York Times spoke to pediatricians across the country who said they were looking for better ways to address ...
Israel’s Bedouin turn moisture in the desert air into drinking water
“The project empowers one of Israel’s most vulnerable and marginalized communities to be leaders in sustainability practices and environmental stewardship,” ...
Will Trump be successful in killing USAID? Civil war erupts in Congress over the future of America’s global humanitarian agency
In a letter to Congress, obtained by the Associated Press, [Marco] Rubio said he had designated Trump ally Peter Marocco ...
Experimental fungi and ‘robotic bees’—Australia emerges as a global leader in merging technology with agriculture
While the US and China have been the biggest recipients of [agtech] investment, Australia is quietly becoming an ag-tech hotbed ...
Flipping the ideological health disinformation switch: MAGA conservatives embrace of raw milk has health officials panicking
In summertime, cows wait under a canopy to be milked at Mark McAfee’s farm in Fresno, California. From his Cessna ...
Controversial first post Roe vs. Wade prosecution: Louisiana court indicts New York physician for mailing abortion pills into its state
The cross-border abortion wars escalated Friday, when a Louisiana grand jury indicted Margaret Carpenter, a physician from New York, for ...
‘Women are biologically female’: Trump’s executive order will not be so easy to implement, and here’s why
One of President Trump’s first-day executive orders proclaimed that “women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.” It sounds ...
‘It’s a new way to think about food production’—Growing algae on Iceland’s futuristic farm
Under a strange pink-purple glow, illuminated panels buzz and cylindrical columns of water bubble away as a futuristic crop of ...
Bird flu outbreak edging towards becoming a full-fledged pandemic
When bird flu [H5N1] first struck dairy cattle a year ago, it seemed possible that it might affect a few ...
Meat processors are making the move from simple automation systems to smart robots and AI. Here’s why
Facilities in several market segments of the meat processing industry have already embraced robot automation and AI technology. For other ...
Can steam-treated seeds reduce the use of agricultural chemicals?
Since the 1950s, farmers across the world have used chemical treatments of their seeds to protect them from pests, pathogens, ...
Aluminum microtrace hysteria: RFK. Jr. and his followers demonize vaccines … but one slice of American cheese contains 10x more than 6 months of childhood shots
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has often trained his criticisms of vaccines on a common ingredient: aluminum, which he has suggested is ...
‘They don’t use organic fairy dust to control pests’ Here’s the list of approved natural and synthetic herbicides and pesticides
While much about modern farming techniques centers around the use of synthetic pesticides [...] on large acreage, the question often ...
Viewpoint: GMOs are scapegoated by activists and blamed for encouraging the world to skirt global food and agriculural challenges
The debate around GMOs entails far more than scientific facts: GMOs have become a proxy for many socio-economic issues such as ...
The fake call for ‘choice’ in medicine: RFK, Jr. is normalizing science-rejecting vaccine opponents
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. doesn’t want to talk about his past as a leader of the anti-vaccine movement. But as ...
MAGA and MAHA: Republicans find common ground with former leftist alt-med, holistic-medicine embracing moms
There has been a cultural sea change over the last year when it comes to health in America. It is ...
Enriching soil: In agriculture, ‘there are no solutions, only trade-offs’
This is a critical moment for land use policy globally, with many countries (e.g. the UK and the European Union) ...
Viewpoint: Why India needs to swiftly embrace crop biotechnology
For more than a decade, we have been trapped in a stifling status quo, denying farmers the choice to embrace ...
User beware: China’s DeepSeek AI chatbot is a hotbed of Chinese, Russian and Iranian disinformation
Chinese company DeepSeek’s new AI chatbot advanced the positions of the Beijing government 60 percent of the time in response to prompts ...
Viewpoint: Wall Street Journal opposes RFK, Jr.’s HHS nomination—Risk is high he will enrich his trial-lawyer friends at the expense of public health and medical innovation
President Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary in return for his presidential endorsement. But Senate Republicans ...
Ideological science—How the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) promotes unscientific hysteria about red meat
In 2015, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization (WHO) designated processed meats (hot dogs, ...
Biopower: What the US needs to do to counter China and secure its biotechnology leadership
[T]he Center for a New American Security (CNAS) released a major new report, Biopower: Securing American Leadership in Biotechnology by Vivek Chilukuri and Hannah ...
Viewpoint: Here’s what far left ideologues are writing in support of RFK Jr.’s wacky views on health, chemicals, food and agriculture
Advocates for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda were gathered in Washington this week ahead ...
No, Elderberry is not a magic elixir
Elderberry supplements — marketed for boosting the immune system — have recently become one of the most popular herbal supplements in the ...
