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Viewpoint: From coffee to BPA to glyphosate, California activists misrepresent cancer risks

Geoffrey Kabat | Forbes |
Coffee is only the latest example of a trend that has become all too common. Activists who profess concern for ...
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Farmer exposes Non-GMO Project’s Twitter crop patent misinformation campaign

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
The Non-GMO Project spreads misleading and inaccurate information about food, agriculture and health on its website and social media. This ...
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Cancer treatment without chemotherapy? CAR T-cells could become the new standard

Victoria Forster | Forbes |
Although rare, it is not unheard-of for new treatments to achieve substantial early successes in one or two patients only ...
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Viewpoint: Consumers fear GMOs because ‘Big Food’ companies bombard them with misinformation

Omri Ben-Shahar | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Omri Ben-Shahar is a law professor at the University of Chicago and the author of the book More ...
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Top 5 most ridiculous types of Non-GMO Project labeled products

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
The stuff with no G to M It would stand to reason that any Non-GMO Project certified item would have ...
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Exorbitant costs of gene therapy raise payment concerns for patients and government

Arlene Weintraub | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Executives from several companies developing gene therapies gathered for a panel discussion at the recent Forbes Healthcare Summit, ...
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‘New Girl’ is no farm girl: Zooey Deschanel misinforms on organic food, farming

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
In Zooey Deschanel’s third “Your Food’s Roots” video, part of a five episode educational series presented by media company Attn:, the ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-GMO movement perpetuates sexism, food insecurity

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
An acronym that conjures specters like pesticides, cancer, obesity, the transformation of life forms into intellectual property, and corporate control ...
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CRISPR wine and beer? Rose, honey flavor-producing yeast gene identified

Thomas Pellechia | Forbes |
When you taste a wine or beer that calls up the flavor of rose or honey think phenylethyl acetate; it’s ...
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‘Science Moms’ documentary counters anti-GMO, anti-vaccine misinformation

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
In an era of fear-based marketing targeted to parents, one group of moms hopes to launch a movement of science-minded ...
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Is the universe really 13.8 billion years old?

Ethan Seigel | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Ethan Siegel is an astrophysicist and author.] You've no doubt heard that the Universe itself has been around for ...
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Viewpoint: Why a broad public understanding of genetics is critical

Joselin Linder | Forbes |
Most of us don’t yet realize that we have to understand genetics and DNA better. When I first started writing my ...
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, narrator of ‘Food Evolution’ movie: It’s not pro-GMO, it’s pro-science

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
Film and entertainment news site Deadline Hollywood announced last week that Hulu has acquired rights to the Food Evolution documentary, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker ...
Viewpoint: Science-based consumers push back against Triscuit’s non-GMO label

Viewpoint: Science-based consumers push back against Triscuit’s non-GMO label

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
[Triscuit] announced its new Non-GMO Project verified label across its entire portfolio of products last month, with a television ad ...
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Why trace pesticides found on food are not dangerous

Matan Shelomi | Forbes |
There is no link between pesticide residues on food and disease. Period. You will find lots of people claiming the ...
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Color Genomics’ cholesterol and heart disease test: Are expensive genetic screens worth it?

Matthew Herper | Forbes |
[Color Genomics] is releasing a genetic test for a condition called familial hypercholesterolemia, or FH, which causes sky-high cholesterol levels and ...
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Frankenfood paradox: Why are (sometimes organic) seedless watermelons — chemical-created mutants — sold without a label?

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
[Did] you know that seedless watermelons are genetically modified, using a toxic chemical, even though they’re considered non-GMO ? If ...
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Opinion: Why the National Organic Program’s funding should be eliminated, not just cut

Henry Miller, Julie Kelly | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Henry Miller is a physician and molecular biologist, and a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He ...
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CRISPR food is coming: How gene editing will change agriculture

Jon Markman | Forbes |
In the near future, scientists will engineer food that grows faster and does not spoil. This is the promise of ...
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Swedish court: Coop grocery chain ‘misled’ consumers by claiming organic food safer, healthier

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
The makers of the viral 2015 “Organic Effect” video, which claimed that switching to an all organic diet can eliminate ...
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‘Food Evolution’ review: Film shows fear of GMOs in rich countries hurts African farmers

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
The Food Evolution documentary, directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy and narrated by pop astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, navigates ...
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Could a mushroom save honey bees from Varroa mites?

GrrlScientist | Forbes |
What is killing honey bees? The most prevalent cause of death is due to infestation by the invasive Varroa mite, ...
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Fake food news: Non-GMO Project sets standard for misleading consumers

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Kavin Senapathy is a freelance writer and co-author of The Fear Babe: Shattering Vani Hari’s Glass House.] As a ...
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‘Inextricably linked’ anti-vaccine and anti-GMO movements cause preventable suffering

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Read the GLP's recent coverage of the Organic Consumers Association's and other anti-GMO groups' links to the anti-vaccine ...
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Only you: What are the odds of your unique existence?

Ethan Siegel | Forbes |
In order for you to exist, a great many unlikely events needed to unfold in exactly the way that they ...
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Nobel Laureate Sir Richard Roberts’ $4 billion dollar solution: GM moths could fight cabbage and broccoli pest, reduce insecticide use

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
The deadline to submit comments to the USDA on the proposed field trial of the GM diamondback moth is nearing, ...
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International Monsanto Tribunal: Fake trial distracts from real food, farming problems

Kavin Senapathy | Forbes |
[Editor's note: Kavin Senapathy is an author, public speaker and science advocate.] The verdict I predicted has landed—agri-giant Monsanto has ...
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Agriculture’s Big Data revolution increases efficiency, reduces food waste from farm to table

Tim Sparapani | Forbes |
[A]bout a third of food produced is lost or wasted every year. Globally, that’s a $940 billion economic hit. Inefficiencies ...