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‘The Hemsworth Alzheimer’s disease gene’: Revisiting the nature-nurture debate
It's frightening when your future health seems indelibly determined, and the prospects are not good. That’s what Chris Hemsworth, the ...
Viewpoint: Precautionary near zero-risk standard is an impossible policy stifling European innovation and productivity. Here’s a safe alternative
After 30 years of squandering the peace dividend, deindustrialising economies and ignoring facts and evidence in their ideology-driven policies, Western ...
Viewpoint: ‘The Dawn of Everything’ blurs lines between scientific research and political advocacy
In 1885, Thomas Henry Huxley delivered a speech in which he famously declared that science “commits suicide the moment it ...
Evolution of humor: How laughter may have helped early humans survive and thrive
Until now, several theories have sought to explain what makes something funny enough to make us laugh. These include transgression ...
‘Mania of zero risk’: How environmentalists inflame concerns about farm chemicals, increasing anti-GM food rejectionism and the degradation of waterways
Food Watch warns, wrongly, that trace amounts of mineral oil can get into our food and seriously endanger consumers, calling ...
XBB.1.5 spreading rapidly through the US: Why the coronavirus continues to confound scientists and public health officials
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is threatening to surge again. In the past few weeks alone, a recent version, XBB.1.5, has quickly ...
Viewpoint: Is the FDA following ‘sound science’ in green lighting new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm?
The prominent economist Milton Friedman said that in order to understand the motivation of a person or organization, you must look ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate and other ‘toxic herbicides’ in school lunches? Food Chain Radio hosts disinformation specialist Zen Honeycutt
School lunches might not be the perfect sustenance, I don't know. When I was in school, the institutionalized food was ...
‘Free to fabricate’ or ‘barred from teaching’? Discord over COVID underscores threats to academic freedom — and the public
Two scientists. Two prominent institutions. One is a tenured professor running a microbial research laboratory where she investigates mechanisms of antibiotic ...
Analysis: Climate mitigation funding imbalance? US government slow to fund climate-smart agricultural innovation — 1/35th of what’s spent on clean energy
Agriculture is a substantial source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for about 10% of the U.S. total. Farmers, ranchers, ...
Part II: Can Uganda and Kenya become Africa’s hub for crop biotechnology innovation?
Erostus Nsubuga, who sits on the Presidential Roundtable for Investments in Agriculture, and serves on several well-placed boards of state-enterprises ...
Prolonged grief disorder: 5-15% of bereaved people experience chronic mourning. What does that mean and how might it impact your health?
Every human being will experience grief at some point in their lives — it’s a fundamental human experience. “I think ...
3-years and counting: GLP contributing writer and geneticist Ricki Lewis highlights 100 articles on the COVID pandemic
Three years ago, health officials in China announced the first cases of infection with a “novel coronavirus.” Dr. Zhang Jixian reported ...
Part I: With Kenya poised to embrace growing and importing genetically modified crops, Ugandan farmers and scientists bemoan their country’s inaction
The decision last fall by newly-elected Kenyan President, Dr. William Samoei arap Ruto to lift his country’s 10-year ban on ...
Live to 150? That’s what some AI algorithms claim is possible. What does the science say?
We’re obsessed with aging. In the quest to prolong life while remaining healthy, people have tried everything from turtle soup ...
Part II: Viewpoint — Kenyan protestors aggressively promote disinformation in campaign to scuttle GM crop imports and cultivation
Are anti-biotechnology advocacy groups honestly engaging in science in their attacks on genetically modified crops? ...
‘Molding science to fit ideology’: 5 ways the Nazis leveraged pseudoscience to support fascism
Nazism is perhaps the most reprehensible ideology to which humans have ever subscribed. Its adherents started World War II and ...
Part II: Jewish skeletal remains in a Norwich well — Do they undermine the controversial theory of ‘Jewish IQ’?
Gregory Cochran, Jason Hardy and Henry Harpending, co-authors of “Natural History of Ashkenazi Intelligence”, did not clearly address how disease ...
Part I: Analysis — Secret alliance: How Kenyan anti-GMO activists are scrambling to block President’s decision authorizing GM corn imports and local cultivation
The East African-wide famine and supply chain issues exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have reenergized the anti-GMO movement in ...
‘The Price of Immortality’: How long can gene therapy and cellular regeneration extend life?
Book Review: Behind the Quest for Eternal Life—In “The Price of Immortality,” journalist Peter Ward explores the frontiers of longevity ...
Ancient humans didn’t get sunburn. Here’s how living indoors has evolved our skin
Human beings have a conflicted relationship with the sun. People love sunshine, but then get hot. Sweat gets in your ...
Viewpoint: Reject GM crops because they’re ‘not natural’? Here’s a primer on 9,000 years of human tampering with our food supply
One of the most frequently cited concerns about ‘genetically modified’ food is that it is ‘unnatural’ or as the then ...
Pesticides are critical to grow food, but concerns are widespread. Here’s why they are overblown – and a look at the cutting-edge RNA genetic tools designed to reduce health risks even more
For farmers to supply society with food, fiber and fuel they must battle pests. There is no magic, natural way ...
Part I: Intelligence, disease, prejudice — and Jewish skeletal remains in a Norwich well
Who would have thought that bones found at the bottom of a medieval well in England could stir up such ...
Viewpoint: GM drought-tolerant crops: Here is one biotech innovation that only anti-GMO science rejectionists can demonize
If you think biotech crops have some role to play in fighting global hunger, the Non-GMO Project is here to ...
Curing insomnia: Techno-solutions like brain-altering apps and sleep trackers are proliferating but the solutions may be far more ancient
You will likely spend about 26 years of your life sleeping. You’ll use up another seven years just falling asleep, ...
Children aren’t biologically programmed to be picky eaters, so why do we feed them sugary and ‘ultra-processed’ foods?
In countries such as the U.S. and Canada, the term “children’s food” conjures images of milk, sugary cereals, yogurt tubes, and ...
