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Europe’s climate change-induced droughts endanger food security, spur calls to embrace biotechnology and other sustainable measures
The scientific community has preferably dealt with studying drought in regions or countries ( Sahel , Horn of Africa, South Africa, Australia...) ...
Categorizing people based on physical traits like hair texture feeds racial stereotypes. Genetics challenges that prejudice
In an undergraduate biological anthropology class in 2011, Tina Lasisi heard a lesson about human skin tones that would change the course ...
Viewpoint: Non-GMO Project promotes genetically-modified seedless watermelon
As summer grinds on, the Non-GMO Project is here to reassure consumers that seedless watermelon is not genetically modified. “Are ...
Podcast: Sri Lanka’s disastrous fertilizer ban; Bees are fish in California; More pesticide lawsuits incoming
Organic activist groups led Sri Lanka's economy over a cliff by pushing a ban on pesticides and fertilizers. Will they ...
Could celibacy have an evolutionary advantage?
Many religious institutions around the world require celibacy. The practice has led anthropologists to wonder how celibacy could have evolved ...
How scientists are genetically tweaking cotton to make it more sustainable
Scientists can use good genes from other organisms to replace the defective ones in cotton, yielding cotton plants with all ...
Dubious findings about food from the ‘Nutrition Researchers Guild’: How can we learn from this unscientific manipulation of statistics?
Are you confused about conflicting “research” findings on certain foods’ effects on our health? It would hardly be surprising. First, ...
Humans arrived in Europe significantly earlier than previously estimated
Perched about 325 feet (100 meters) up the slopes of the Prealps in southern France, a humble rock shelter looks ...
Viewpoint: Switching to organic food because it’s healthier, safer and better for the environment? Think again
Many consumers are committed to organic products for reasons that are more emotional than logical. They frequently define their purchasing ...
How social justice activists are undermining New Zealand’s efforts to produce a sustainable farming system
Sometimes—often, even—a singular ideological focus can have unintended consequences in food production that actually undermines the social justice goals that ...
In the wake of Biden’s COVID-19 infections, here’s what regulators should do to limit Paxlovid rebound
When he headed the Food & Drug Administration, Dr. Frank Young used to admonish his minions that sometimes regulations need ...
Viewpoint: ‘It could have been avoided’ — The background story of Sri Lanka’s reckless experiment to go all organic and reject crop protection chemicals
The images of agitated Sri Lankans storming into their country’s presidential residence in reaction to the mishandling of farm policy by their ...
Exploring Prophet Muhammad’s Hebraic descent
In the West, the discussion on the origins of Prophet Muhammad has been the subject of limited studies. Traditional and ...
Part II: Web of Disinformers: The network of anti-crop biotechnology activists, and the funders behind their campaigns
Carey Gillam, once a reporter at Reuters covering food and farming, left her job under a cloud, challenged by her ...
GLP Podcast: EPA’s political weedkiller rules; GMO-derived beer on sale; Anti-glyphosate webinar review
The Biden Administration just overruled its own scientists at the EPA, mandating regulations that effectively ban the low-risk, effective weedkiller ...
IVF success rate is 30%. Genetic factors more than environment may explain why it’s so unsuccessful
It has been almost 44 years years since the first in vitro fertilisation (IVF) procedure was successfully performed in 1978 ...
Part I: Carey Gillam — Reporter turned organic propagandist who twists science in campaign to discredit biotechnology and conventional agriculture
With links to the Church of Scientology, anti-vaccine glyphosate litigator Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Organic Consumers Association, US Right to ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO advocates are losing ground
The anti-Genetic Engineering movement is on shaky ground because it has let its beliefs blind it to the strong scientific ...
The hapless male Y chromosome finally has a purpose
I’ve never been fond of the human Y chromosome. Yes, the all-important SRY gene sets the early embryo on a path towards ...
Why China’s embrace of GMO corn and soy will change policies in South Africa and the rest of the continent
Chinese National Crop Variety Approval Committee released two standards that clear the path for cultivating genetically modified (GM) crops in the country ...
Podcast: Guardian’s glyphosate hysteria debunked; Intensive farming and pandemics; Where did dogs come from?
There's probably minute quantities of weedkiller in your urine. Should you panic? No. Will technological advances in farming reduce or ...
The Guardian and Carey Gillam join long list of activists who misrepresent the science of glyphosate and exaggerate the risk of pesticides
Within hours after journalist Carey Gillam’s article in The Guardian reported that the US Centers for Disease Control had found ...
Viewpoint: When do politicians sometimes act like bacteria? When it comes to enacting necessary but politically risky policies to control the latest COVID surge
I’ve long noted fundamental similarities between bacteria and politicians. It might seem an odd comparison, but both groups are highly ...
Deep voice, height, testosterone levels, angular face, finger digit ratio, muscularity: Which male trait best predicts finding a partner and having children?
In a massive meta-analysis that was years in the making, psychologists from the University of Durham and the University of ...
Viewpoint: Reject anti-technology hyperbole — High-yield, intensive farming, agricultural sustainability and nature conversation can co-exist
By re-purposing the less productive agricultural land and creating farmland bird friendly habitat, songbird numbers doubled while arable crop yields ...
Podcast: Pesticides cancel benefits of fruits and veggies? Drought-tolerant wheat coming soon? Do DNA diets work?
Do pesticide residues on food counteract the benefits of consuming fruits and vegetables? The FDA recently approved a genetically engineered ...
Whole Foods Magazine joins the ‘let’s peddle anti-GMO disinformation scare stories’ movement
Whole Foods Magazine published a June story titled GMOs: Basics to Know. “Although GMOs have been deemed safe,” the author alleged, ...
