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In the summer of 2021, a toxic, smoky haze stemming from Western wildfires wafted across large parts of the United States, ...

Despite vehement public debate, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that GE foods present no greater risk than non-GMO crops, ...

I loved the movie Erin Brockovich played by Julia Roberts who played a lawyer’s assistant fighting the interplay of corporate greed ...

People believe a lot of nonsense about food and farming; let's debunk the top-10 worst of these "truisms." The FDA ...

In clearing out my office recently I came across a DVD of the video Life in a standard and in ...

We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not ...

Researchers have developed a biosensor they say can monitor the activity of CRISPR gene editing in real-time. Synthetic biology is ...

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, an unfortunately all-too-common topic for me was the proliferation of dubious acupuncture ...

Chemophobia is rampant. Some environmental groups, organic promoters and sloppy journalists have successfully made many consumers scared of products that ...

It’s no secret that Congress sometimes does things – including creating laws – that make little sense and that are contrary ...

Following the FDA's granting of Emergency Use Authorization to Merck's molnupiravir and Pfizer's Paxlovid, the only two approved direct-acting antiviral ...

Anyone who has flown over the Canadian prairies in any of the previous summers will notice the tremendous number of ...

Chances are you’ve met a narcissist. Someone who thinks they’re better than everyone else, dominates the conversation and loves the ...

The “bioengineered” label for foods sold in the United States is now in effect. Any food or food ingredient that ...

The tantalizing final sentence to James Watson and Francis Crick’s landmark 1953 paper in Nature introducing the genetic material, DNA, ...

Hoping to keep their cause alive in the wake of the pandemic, the anti-GMO movement has glommed on to a ...

Just as it did last year, the most dangerous pandemic in a century spawned all sorts of junk science in ...

Discussing inter-group divergence is largely taboo. So do we just ignore the deluge of data? ...

Like most other kids with covid, Dante and Michael DeMaino seemed to have no serious symptoms. Infected in mid-February, both ...

"Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds.” "People with the highest levels of phthalates had a ...

The recent court victories against the former Monsanto involving glyphosate constitute a major cause célèbre for anti-GMO activists. Now, another ...

Everybody wants to know that when they turn on their tap, their drinking water is safe. According to the EPA, ...

At what point do regulatory experts possess sufficient knowledge on innovative technologies and their potential impacts, both beneficial and adverse, ...

The Nazi concentration camp system still remains a unicum, both in its extent and its quality. At no other place ...

The holidays are typically centered around food. Large gatherings of families eating holiday meals, potlucks at work and churches, and ...

Over the past 18 months, a number of significant events have occurred that were interpreted through two entirely different worldviews: ...

Since early in the COVID pandemic, the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa has been monitoring changes in SARS-CoV-2. This ...