GLP Podcast: 'Cancel' culture comes for science outreach; Activism blocks avian flu solution; CRISPR-edited cats?

GLP Podcast: ‘Cancel’ culture comes for science outreach; Activism blocks avian flu solution; CRISPR-edited cats?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A major university recently halted a science outreach event because the invited speakers were white men. Has so-called "cancel culture" ...
Where should society draw ethical lines for experimental CRISPR gene therapies that appear able to cure diseases?

Where should society draw ethical lines for experimental CRISPR gene therapies that appear able to cure diseases?

Bridget Balch | 
It has been more than a year since Markus Mapara, MD, a professor of medicine and director of blood and ...
What are acetogens? And how could synthetic biology turn oil, coal and other fossil fuels into green, carbon-negative chemicals?

What are acetogens? And how could synthetic biology turn oil, coal and other fossil fuels into green, carbon-negative chemicals?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
When most people hear about oil, as in petroleum, they think of what gets refined to produce gasoline.  But it’s ...
Part II: The Clean 18 — USDA finds almost no pesticide-related health concerns from fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, while data on organic food is lacking

Part II: The Clean 18 — USDA finds almost no pesticide-related health concerns from fruits and vegetables grown on American farms, while data on organic food is lacking

Steve Savage | 
The purpose of the following section is to explore commodity to commodity differences by a variety of measures and not ...
Part I: The Clean 18 — Challenging Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen scare survey of pesticide residues on conventional fruits and vegetables

Part I: The Clean 18 — Challenging Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen scare survey of pesticide residues on conventional fruits and vegetables

Steve Savage | 
The recent release of the “Dirty Dozen List” by the organic-industry-funded Environmental Working Group has stirred up its annual hornets’ ...
Viewpoint: There is a solution to the devastating poultry pandemic – but anti-technology activist groups and outdated regulations are blocking it

Viewpoint: There is a solution to the devastating poultry pandemic – but anti-technology activist groups and outdated regulations are blocking it

Kevin Folta | 
The bulldozer belches black smoke into the air, an engine revving with extra effort to push a hill of feathered ...
GLP Podcast: Artificial sweetener-cancer study debunked; MLB and vaccine mandates; Cholesterol not so bad after all?

GLP Podcast: Artificial sweetener-cancer study debunked; MLB and vaccine mandates; Cholesterol not so bad after all?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
A controversial study recently suggested that artificial sweetener consumption may be linked to elevated cancer risk. Have food-safety regulators overlooked ...
Why the developing world isn’t reaping benefits from the human genomics revolution

Why the developing world isn’t reaping benefits from the human genomics revolution

Dyna Rochmyaningsih | 
Since the first human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, scientists have touted the breakthrough as a blessing to humanity ...
Mexico’s plan to ban glyphosate by 2024 is already backfiring against farmers, consumers and the environment

Mexico’s plan to ban glyphosate by 2024 is already backfiring against farmers, consumers and the environment

Luis Ventura | 
The Mexican government is still on track to ban completely by 2024 the use of glyphosate which is paired with ...
Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?

Probiotics: Solution to long-COVID or overhyped sales pitch?

Sam Moxon | 
“Could THIS twice-daily probiotic supplement filled with gut friendly bacteria help beat Long Covid?” That’s the headline in the Daily ...
How Russia's invasion of Ukraine endangers our global food system

How Russia’s invasion of Ukraine endangers our global food system

Dirt to Dinner | 
Life is full of unintended consequences. And unfortunately, the Russian invasion of Ukraine has provided classic proof of the old ...
GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

GLP Podcast: Activists dump grain during food shortage; The mirror lies to you; Anti-GMO study debunked

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Last week, French activist group Extinction Rebellion destroyed 15,000 tons of wheat to prove its anti-GMO bona fides. The grain ...
How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy

How once-distinguished The Lancet has become hothouse for anti-science advocacy

Cameron English | 
Misinformation is rampant on social media. The science community has spent most of the last two years trying to slow ...
Why did the earliest humans leave Africa?

Why did the earliest humans leave Africa?

Josie Glausiusz | 
On a searing hot summer day at ‘Ubeidiya, an ancient site in northern Israel, an undulating expanse of dry grasses ...
Global crop gene editing advances as numerous countries break from European Union’s restrictive policies

Global crop gene editing advances as numerous countries break from European Union’s restrictive policies

Transparenz Gentechnik | 
Great Britain has already decided to take the first steps, as has Switzerland: dealing with simple genome-edited plants will be ...
GLP Podcast: Ukraine war spikes food prices; Journalist sheds anti-GMO views; Creationism in schools

GLP Podcast: Ukraine war spikes food prices; Journalist sheds anti-GMO views; Creationism in schools

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
The war in Ukraine could have long-term impacts on global food prices. Can we prevent this dangerous outcome? A Japanese ...
Viewpoint: Organic farming best addresses climate change? Why the popular consensus is wrong—and why GE crops should be agriculture’s future

Viewpoint: Organic farming best addresses climate change? Why the popular consensus is wrong—and why GE crops should be agriculture’s future

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Popular wisdom is often wrong.  Consider, for example, how it views organic agriculture, which has grown to a $48 billion a ...
Dangerous levels of glyphosate in urine? Junk science paper based upon a large-scale anti-GMO testing campaign

Dangerous levels of glyphosate in urine? Junk science paper based upon a large-scale anti-GMO testing campaign

André Heitz, Jon Entine | 
The public and journalists – the consumers of information about health – need to be aware of something that researchers ...
Viewpoint: Why is Germany hiring a former Greenpeace activist who reflexively opposed nuclear energy and genetic engineering as a climate advisor?

Viewpoint: Why is Germany hiring a former Greenpeace activist who reflexively opposed nuclear energy and genetic engineering as a climate advisor?

Adam Mazik | 
February 9, a headline caused a stir: Annalena Baerbock now employs Jennifer Morgan, the former head of Greenpeace, as special ...
Rumors swirling around the web that COVID vaccines spawn variants. Here’s why that’s not true

Rumors swirling around the web that COVID vaccines spawn variants. Here’s why that’s not true

Josh Bloom | 
Are COVID vaccines responsible for creating the multiple variants that keep hitting the world? I get this question all the ...
GLP Podcast: mRNA flu shot coming soon? Dogs really can't eat chocolate; Marijuana-like 'runner's high'

GLP Podcast: mRNA flu shot coming soon? Dogs really can’t eat chocolate; Marijuana-like ‘runner’s high’

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
mRNA technology gave us COVID-19 vaccines. Could it also yield more effective flu vaccines? Yes—maybe as soon as next year ...
New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing

New study probes reactions to discovering new relatives through consumer DNA testing

Ricki Lewis | 
Late winter is the season for dealing with unexpected findings from DNA testing kits gifted in December. For most people, ...
Are GM foods safe? New study of studies challenges long-established claim that GMOs pose no unique health hazards. Let’s review what they found

Are GM foods safe? New study of studies challenges long-established claim that GMOs pose no unique health hazards. Let’s review what they found

Klaus-Dieter Jany | 
Do GMOs adversely impact humans? Thousands of studies have been performed over the past 20 years attempting to answer in ...
Organic farming is both yield intense and more sustainable? BBC bungles revision of pro-organic ‘propaganda’ aimed at school children

Organic farming is both yield intense and more sustainable? BBC bungles revision of pro-organic ‘propaganda’ aimed at school children

Matt Ridley | 
Despite an investigation by BBC’s rural affairs broadcaster Tom Heap, the network continues to peddle fact-challenged study guides promoting organic ...
Part II: How COVID upended the taboo on limiting constructive discussion about human biodiversity

Part II: How COVID upended the taboo on limiting constructive discussion about human biodiversity

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle | 
The coronavirus crisis has brought to light the societal downside of ignoring patterned, population-based differences. Consider the latest research findings ...
How ‘agricultural intensification’ could cut global farm land use by almost 50%, increase biodiversity and help address climate change

How ‘agricultural intensification’ could cut global farm land use by almost 50%, increase biodiversity and help address climate change

In the context of trade-offs between land use and biodiversity, LMU geographers have simulated land saving potentials for agriculture. With ...
The humans we haven't met yet

The humans we haven’t met yet

Jeffrey Schwartz | 
Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t. In my opinion, far too many species have been lumped together into this one ...
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