Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
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 ...
Viewpoint: ‘Alt-right’ piles into the RFK. Jr. science-distorting chemophobia-promoting clown car
[Robert Francis Kennedy Jr.] has spread misinformation multiple times over the past three years claiming that herbicides and other chemicals ...
Political opportunism and campaign donations: Trump pardons Silk Road drug kingpin convicted of selling heroin and meth on the Dark Web
Libertarian and crypto allies of Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for distributing drugs on his Silk Road ...
Quirky DeepSeek: A look under the hood of China’s clever new open-source search engine
DeepSeek’s success and a technical paper it published last week suggest that Chinese AI developers can match their U.S. counterparts ...
Viewpoint: 7 social media food scare disinformation mongers getting rich peddling disinformation
Fighting disinformation around agriculture can be frustrating. Just like a hydra, whenever you manage to slay (er, discredit) one influencer, ...
Possibility of Trump tariffs has agricultural community in knots
As the threat of tariffs looms, the U.S. agriculture market is expected to be one of the main industries to ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the simplistic and false dichotomy between GM crops and environmental restoration
It would seem that environmental activists and organizations would be natural allies of approaches that could decrease pesticide use and ...
Trump administration abruptly ended government food safety alerts, then issued a ‘clarification’ that it’s a pause. Will the ban end up becoming permanent?
Officials inside the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), the agency that oversees both the CDC and the FDA, ...
No, the modern world is not killing us–Viewpoint: RFK. Jr.’s reckless war on food and agriculture
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his Children's Defense Fund and his work as a trial lawyer for Natural Resources Defense ...
Global food security moonshot: 153 Nobel and World Food Prize laureates outline what needs to be done to prevent a future global food catastrophe
World leaders must make massive investments in agriculture to avert an imminent food catastrophe by 2050. This is the urgent ...
Viewpoint: Environmental activists roiled by Trump administration’s rollback of proposed limits on PFAS
Amid a flurry of actions curtailing Biden’s environmental policies, the administration of newly inaugurated President Donald Trump ... withdrew a ...
How AI is trying to figure out the cause of the LA fires
What’s shaping up to be one of the worst wildfire disasters in US history had many causes. Before the blazes raged ...
Here are the details of Mexico’s proposed constitutional ban on growing genetically modified corn
The federal government [of Mexico published] its constitutional reform initiative to prohibit the planting and cultivation of genetically modified corn ...
EU’s proposed Green Deal farming strategy poses serious challenges to South African farmers
The EU’s central strategy to implement the European Green Deal is designated “Farm to Fork” (F2F). A significant element in ...
Church of Scientology and RFK, Jr.: Reuters investigation highlights HHS secretary’s problematic ties to Scientologist tort law firm Wisner Baum
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would retain legal fees earned from litigation against drugmaker Merck if he is confirmed as President ...
Here are all the health benefits of Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs
With the use of [drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy, or glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists] spiking in recent years, a ...
‘Devastation’ and ‘panic’: Trump guts key government support for National Institute of Health programs
Confusion and anxiety is rippling through the US health-research community ... following Donald Trump taking office as the 47th US ...
ARCUS breakthrough: An advanced gene editing tool appears to have cured an infant of an early onset metabolic disorder
A little-known gene editor, tested with help from a disgraced gene therapist seeking redemption, may have cured a 1-year-old boy ...
Viewpoint: Global food deficiencies are the result of faulty policies, not a shortfall in production
[W]hen more than 150 Nobel laureates and World Food Prize winners sign an open letter calling for “planet-friendly moonshot efforts ...
Viewpoint: Here’s a plan to reduce chemical inputs in agriculture
Many countries have implemented policies to reduce the use of chemical inputs in agriculture. However, these policies face many obstacles ...
