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Similarities between anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists
If there’s one characteristic that nearly all cranks share it’s an intolerance of criticism and a tendency to want to ...
China’s economic reasons for rejecting GM corn
Back in the beginning of December, China blocked 5 shipments of corn from entering the country. The General Administration of ...
Were insects pollinating 100 million years ago? Ancient plants found in amber suggest so
Scientists recently discovered a 100-million-year-old piece of amber, which revealed the oldest evidence yet of sexual reproduction in a flowering ...
The bad science checklist of GMO opponents
One of my favorite science websites is at Science or Not, the author of which, Graham Coghill, claims that “this website will ...
Journal article claiming GMOs might pass “genetic benefits” to weeds challenged
It is well accepted observation that when the pseudoscience or anti-science crowd runs out of supporting evidence (usually when it’s ...
Richard Dawkins talks about GMO crops
The following is an excerpt. Thirteen years ago, Richard Dawkins, noted secularist, author and evolutionary biologist, wrote an open letter to Prince Charles, ...
When hysteria about GMOs takes root
The following is an edited excerpt. A homeopath (which means that she’s reality-challenged to begin with), [Heidi Stevenson has] produced ...
The trouble with epigenetics
The following is an excerpt. Further, genetic analysis of adaptations that have arisen in evolution (like differences between closely related ...