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Don’t eat it if you can’t pronounce it? Avoiding ‘scary-sounding ingredients’ won’t make you healthier

Hayley Philip&nbsp|&nbsp
"If you can’t pronounce it, don’t eat it!” We are told that steering clear of scary-sounding ingredients is a simple, ...
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The COVID conspiracy theory that won’t go away: No, the novel coronavirus was not made in a lab — it came from bats

Polly Hayes&nbsp|&nbsp
One of the conspiracy theories that have plagued attempts to keep people informed during the pandemic is the idea that ...
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‘Hero of progress’: How agronomist Norman Borlaug almost banished famine from Asia

Alexander C. R. Hammond&nbsp|&nbsp
Norman Borlaug’s work undeniably changed the world for the better ...
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Childhood trauma: The kids are not alright, and part of the explanation may be linked to epigenetics

Kristen Hovet&nbsp|&nbsp
The old adage about kids being resilient and able to bounce back from early traumas isn't necessarily borne out by ...
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Podcast: Anti-GMO ‘documentaries’; Cancel culture v Darwin? Biotech chestnut trees

Cameron English, Kevin Folta&nbsp|&nbsp
So-called 'cancel culture' has already taken down a handful of prominent scientists and philosophers, living and deceased. One evolutionary biologist ...
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How immunotherapy is revolutionizing cancer care

Claire Adams&nbsp|&nbsp
More than a century ago, in 1910, President William Howard Taft made what then seemed a bold but reasonable prediction: ...
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Viewpoint: Swayed by anti-GMO groups, biotech pioneer Mexico lurches toward GM crop ban

Luis Ventura&nbsp|&nbsp
“There is currently enough food in the world to feed 10 billion people,” writes the anti-GMO environmental group Green America ...
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Viewpoint: The questionable science behind Elon Musk’s Neuralink brain hacking project

Andrew Jackson&nbsp|&nbsp
If thoughts, feelings and other mental activities are nothing more than electrochemical signals flowing around a vast network of brain ...
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Viewpoint: The chilling impact of the virulent spread of anti-science thinking

Tommaso Dorigo&nbsp|&nbsp
"Anti-scientific thinking" is a bad disease of our time, and one which may affect a wide range of human beings, ...
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Viewpoint: Europe’s pro-organic Farm to Fork policy will ‘cripple’ an already inefficient agriculture system

Henry Miller, Rob Wager&nbsp|&nbsp
The EU’s “Farm to fork (F2F) strategy”  announced in May, is “the heart of the “Green Deal,” a kind of ...
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‘Rethinking Monsanto’: Ex-GMO skeptic explains what he got wrong about Big Ag and the pitfalls of plant breeding

Marc Brazeau&nbsp|&nbsp
Beginning in 2010, I embarked on a slow-motion conversion from GMO skeptic to advocate as I began developing a more ...
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What I got wrong: GMO skeptic turned crop biotech advocate explains his ‘slow-motion conversion’

Marc Brazeau&nbsp|&nbsp
A recent open-heart surgery put my mind, as it might, on themes relating to mortality. Which got me thinking about ...
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Why evolution always goes in one direction

Matthew Wills&nbsp|&nbsp
The diversity and complexity of life on Earth is astonishing: 8 million or more living species – from algae to ...
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Viewpoint: Great Barrington Declaration arguing for herd immunity ‘takes page from denialist propaganda playbook’

David Gorski&nbsp|&nbsp
When you’ve been examining pseudoscientific and quack claims for over two decades, you start to recognize patterns in the strategies ...
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GM insect-resistant Bt cotton boosted India’s crop yields? Activist study says no, but crop biotech experts say yes

Cameron English, Jon Entine, Matin Qaim&nbsp|&nbsp
Was the introduction of transgenic (GMO) cotton seeds to India in 2002 the beginning of the renaissance of the country's ...
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Final weeks to approval: NIH’s Anthony Fauci and FDA’s Peter Marks on what’s ahead before we can expect a safe COVID vaccine

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
As tens of thousands of people participate in phase 3 clinical trials on COVID-19 vaccine candidates, the focus is turning ...
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Viewpoint: Greenpeace-funded study backfires, undermining case to treat gene-edited crops as GMOs

Mary Mangan&nbsp|&nbsp
The anti-GMO movement dominated the public discourse about crop biotechnology for decades. Led by committed activists who knew how to ...
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New England Journal of Medicine sets aside 200 years of politics, editorializing FDA and CDC have been compromised, calling political leadership ‘dangerously incompetent’

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Covid-19 has created a crisis throughout the world. This crisis has produced a test of leadership. With no good options ...
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Colombian anti-biotech groups losing on two fronts? Push for GMO ban slows, while government green lights first gene-edited crop

Sherly Montaguth&nbsp|&nbsp
Editor's note: The author of this story has informed the GLP that new information has come to light, and asked ...
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Infographic: 5 different ways COVID vaccines work

Ricki Lewis&nbsp|&nbsp
COVID vaccine hesitancy is on the rise, perhaps in the wake of pressure to speed approval beyond scientific reason. But I think ...
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Video: Vaccine expert Paul Offit talks with Medscape’s Eric Topol on the pitfalls and promise of COVID ‘Operation Warp Speed’

Eric Topol, Paul Offit&nbsp|&nbsp
[Editor's note: This interview can be watched in full at Medscape. Watch it here. Read a transcript of the interview ...
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Viewpoint: Animals vs plants? Stop fighting about where your protein comes from and eat a balanced diet

Hayley Philip&nbsp|&nbsp
With a feeling of uncertainty infiltrating our lives lately, many of us are looking for concrete information to help us ...
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How COVID-19 resembles a sexually transmitted disease

Athena Aktipis, Joe Alcock&nbsp|&nbsp
Viruses walk a fine line between severity and transmissibility. If they are too virulent, they kill or incapacitate their hosts; ...
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The Goldilocks phenomenon: Why as many as 45% of patients get COVID and show no symptoms

Emily Laber-Warren&nbsp|&nbsp
One of the reasons Covid-19 has spread so swiftly around the globe is that for the first days after infection, ...
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Podcast: Monsanto v Percy Schmeiser; Experts spread misinformation, too; Fasting a fad diet?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta&nbsp|&nbsp
Just-released courtroom drama 'Percy' tells the David vs. Goliath story of a Canadian farmer's battle against Monsanto. Did the film ...
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Regenerative medicine and war: The next breakthrough in treating injured veterans?

Sam Moxon&nbsp|&nbsp
Many Americans, and indeed people all over the world, were outraged when reports surfaced this past summer that President Trump ...
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Viewpoint: There’s no such thing as a ‘GMO,’ and the history of potatoes illustrates why the term is ‘nonsensical’

Giovanni Molteni Tagliabue&nbsp|&nbsp
The expression “genetically modified organisms” (“GMOs”) is not only void of scientific value, but has negative effects on agricultural progress ...
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