Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Podcast viewpoint: RFK, Jr spewed misinformation about glyphosate, vaccines and cellphones on Joe Rogan—clues on how he could impact US policy” ← Go to editor
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is recognized for his bad science around critical issues like vaccination and agricultural chemistry. Recently he ...
Chinese consumers open to gene-edited foods
Experts from the School of Communication, Soochow University in China, surveyed over 600 consumers in China to solicit their perceptions ...
Switzerland edges towards embracing gene edited foods
[After a 20-year moratorium on genetically modified crops], the Swiss parliament asked the government to prepare a draft act for ...
Viewpoint: What policies do the leading food, farming and activist organizations hope and fear from a second Trump Administration
Given the lack of detail in the official Republican party platform on food and ag, meanwhile, uncertainty abounds…. American Farm ...
Silicon Valley nihilism? Will reckless scientists introducing dubious technological innovations stir opposition to cellular agriculture?
[C]ultivated meat is grown from livestock cells, without slaughter. It provides a potential solution to a number of seemingly intractable ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine opponent and conspiracy theorist RFK Jr. poised to remake US health policy in his twisted vision
The vaccine skeptic and conspiracy theorist Robert F Kennedy Jr. is “going to help make America healthy again”, Trump told ...
Why ‘peer review’ is no longer the gold standard for quality, objective science research
Today, I focus on the use and abuse of the peer-reviewed literature to produce tactical science which I define as: ...
Viewpoint: The alternative medicine, wellness industry con game
Alternative medicine has become a scrutiny-free wonderland for anything and everything. ... We are at a point in human history ...
‘Nature’s little alchemist: Microbes and the origin of life
A story about the origins of life in the cosmos starts at Earth’s equator, where Dian Fiantis, a professor of ...
The first neural bypass implant powered by AI has helped a patient recover from near-full-body paralysis
A New York man who was left paralyzed after a diving accident is starting to regain movement a year after ...
Swiss surgeons use a PlayStation controller to perform a remote endoscopy in Hong Kong
In a groundbreaking experiment, surgeons in Switzerland successfully performed an endoscopic procedure on a pig 5,780 miles away in Hong ...
‘There is a coming revolution in CRISPR’: Gene editing pioneer Jennifer Doudna anticipates focus on crops and climate change
Jennifer Doudna, one of the inventors of the breakthrough gene-editing tool CRISPR, says the technology will help the world grapple ...
Biotechnology is the way forward for many of Africa’s most pressing challenges
Biotechnology is one of the modern-day scientific innovations that are widely misunderstood, especially in Africa. Often regarded as a complex ...
UK moves ahead with crop gene editing but lags in approving precision breeding to contain animal diseases
Ministers are preparing to introduce legislation [permitting] the growing of gene-edited crops in England and Wales. [However,] the new legislation ...
Virtue over impact: Greens environmentalist policy likely to backfire
[There is] a particular kind of increasingly common environmental regulation: one that is short on impact but big on virtue ...
Gene drives minimize biodiversity loss while optimizing productivity
Chinese scientists have reportedly engineered a way to use gene-editing technology to bypass natural plant behavior and force crops to inherit genes ...
Genomic prediction: Start-up claims to offer parents a way to select ‘desirable’ traits like IQ. Will it work?
There is broad scientific consensus that intelligence is partly inherited and that genes play a significant role. But pinning this ...
Ancient DNA can be an indicator of your ability to digest carbs
If you’ve ever struggled to reduce your carb intake, ancient DNA might be to blame. It has long been known ...
Rwandan farmers and scientists turn to genetic modification to rescue disease-threatened potatoes, maize and cassava
Rwanda could soon start using genetically modified maize, Irish potatoes, and cassava crops as confined trials are underway. Maize is ...
Intelligent food labels: Technological innovations to prevent food waste
With everyone talking about the problem of food waste worldwide, its effects are reaching way beyond just the food industry ...
What’s a burger, sausage or a steak? European Union court rules can legally be used in marketing vegan products
The news that France or any member state can’t ban meaty terms in plant-based food labels has given [the] industry a ...
Pakistan drops ban on importing GMO soybeans
The federal government [of Pakistan] has officially authorised the import of genetically modified (GMO) soybean by granting licences to dozens ...
Viewpoint: Is the anti-corporate MAHA—pro-big business Trump alliance viable?
[Robert] Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) wants “to dismantle the corporate stranglehold on our government agencies that has led ...
Trump’s prospective ‘Health Czar’ RFK, Jr. says new administration will push to ban fluoride in water
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pledged ... that a future Trump administration would seek to remove fluoride from drinking water as ...
Brains and risk: The genetics of politics
Elections tend to bring out strong emotions in people. As voters evaluate the candidates, emotions can rise. Political disagreements may ...
Over regulation or protecting the public? Republicans and Democrats have very different visions on how to regulate AI
If Donald Trump wins the US presidential election in November, the guardrails could come off of artificial intelligence development, even ...
Viewpoint: How progressives have undermined their stated agenda and slowed the introduction of new drugs
With the rallying cry of corporate greed, each year of the Biden-Harris administration has brought successive government interventions in the ...
