Baby food panic, brought to you by trial lawyers hoping to prosecute by press release

Baby food panic, brought to you by trial lawyers hoping to prosecute by press release

Last week, I received an email from a law firm asking ACSH to promote its groundless allegations about the dangers ...
From plastic coasters to human hearts: Inside the race to print the human body

From plastic coasters to human hearts: Inside the race to print the human body

Henry Miller | Genetic Literacy Project |
Fifteen years ago, 3‑D printing was heralded as the technology that would revolutionize manufacturing, democratizing production and allowing anyone with ...
Viewpoint: Video — Big Solar is gobbling up productive agricultural land and hurting farmers yet providing little energy or sustainabilty gains

Viewpoint: Video — Big Solar is gobbling up productive agricultural land and hurting farmers yet providing little energy or sustainabilty gains

Robert Bryce | Genetic Literacy Project |
I made this 10-minute documentary, SUNBLOCK, because I love farmers and ranchers and want to tell their stories. This film ...
Viewpoint — Fact checking MAHA mythmakers: How wellness influencers undermine American science and health

Viewpoint — Fact checking MAHA mythmakers: How wellness influencers undermine American science and health

Andrea Love | Genetic Literacy Project |
After RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA vaccine technology research programs last week, I had big plans of multiple articles I ...
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Four ways to strip carbon out of agriculture and limit farming’s climate impacts

Steve Savage | Genetic Literacy Project |
Carbon is a “hot topic” in an age of Climate Change (pun intended). That is playing out in unique ways ...
Confronting the elephant in the human biodiversity room — the explosive issue of IQ

Confronting the elephant in the human biodiversity room — the explosive issue of IQ

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine two widely separated human groups living for thousands of years in different cultural and ecological ...
GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?

GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?

The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...
The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID

The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID

Henry Miller | Genetic Literacy Project |
COVID-19 has not disappeared. According to the most recent weekly update from the CDC, wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
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Organic farming will never be truly sustainable until it embraces gene editing

The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern ...
When AI goes HAL 9000: How the coming age of agentic AI could unleash catastrophic cyberattacks

When AI goes HAL 9000: How the coming age of agentic AI could unleash catastrophic cyberattacks

Henry Miller | Genetic Literacy Project |
With all the hype about the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize and accelerate innovation, there are some ...
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Viewpoint: Should the public foot the pricey bill for organic farming and food?

A group of European researchers argued in a recent journal article that permitting the use of gene edited crops in ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to move beyond the ‘sex assigned at birth’ mania

Viewpoint: It’s time to move beyond the ‘sex assigned at birth’ mania

As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a ...
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection

GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection

If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...
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More than 12,500 pesticides need assessment or re-evaluation. Here is how EPA does its work

Jeff Gore | Genetic Literacy Project |
Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin has said he wants the federal agency to accelerate scientific safety evaluations of various chemicals, ...
Viewpoint: What the media and policymakers miss about containing agricultural pests—Exaggerating risk and underestimating benefits

Viewpoint: What the media and policymakers miss about containing agricultural pests—Exaggerating risk and underestimating benefits

The debate on the extent and necessity of regulating the use of plant protection products essentially concerns an objective assessment ...
GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote 'fat phobia' as some fat activists claim?

GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote ‘fat phobia’ as some fat activists claim?

Obesity may have finally found its match in Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are helping many millions of people ...
Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying

Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying

In the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the ...
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Marrying your cousin: Might it provide some evolutionary benefits?

The taboo against cousin marriages may be overblown--and there may even be an evolutionary argument in support of it in ...
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Disease is the greatest threat to bee health. Can genetically engineered probiotics help protect them?

If you cannot engineer the organism, engineer its microbiome. Since scientists began exploring how to solve problems using synthetic biology, ...
8 ways to help you sort social media misinformation and AI imagery

GLP podcast: ‘Hyperreality.’ How the digital world severs our connection to truth

Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...
Viewpoint: Activist hyped study ‘proving’ that glyphosate can cause leukemia is junk science

Viewpoint: Activist hyped study ‘proving’ that glyphosate can cause leukemia is junk science

Cami Ryan | Genetic Literacy Project |
The discussion around glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, is becoming increasingly charged, especially with new studies surfacing that suggest a ...
Viewpoint: Hollywood’s latest bizarre (un)health fetish: ‘I have Lyme disease!!’

Viewpoint: Hollywood’s latest bizarre (un)health fetish: ‘I have Lyme disease!!’

Last week, media outlets were awash with headlines about another celebrity revealing a years-long battle with Lyme disease. Justin Timberlake ...
Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent

Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent

Vaccinations not only safeguard individual health but also preserve the collective health of our communities, ensuring that preventable infectious diseases ...
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GLP spaces on X: ‘Designer baby’ revolution is coming. Are we ready?

The day is rapidly approaching when many people will reproduce in the lab instead of the bedroom. Rather than pairing ...
Viewpoint: ‘Travesty of science’: Latest ‘global glyphosate study’ is a scientific mess issued by the ethically-compromised Ramazzini Institute

Viewpoint: ‘Travesty of science’: Latest ‘global glyphosate study’ is a scientific mess issued by the ethically-compromised Ramazzini Institute

In June, the Ramazzini Institute published the results of its long-heralded Global Glyphosate Study via an article in a Ramazzini-managed ...
Why dogs and cats are evolving to look alike?

Why dogs and cats are evolving to look alike?

Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and ...
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GLP spaces on X: Climate change and meat. Separating fact from hype

Red meat is often scapegoated as a major villain in the popular story about our global efforts to prevent a ...
Viewpoint: Environmental activists' doomsday pessimism undermines agricultural biotechnology

Viewpoint: Environmental activists’ doomsday pessimism undermines agricultural biotechnology

We live in a precautionary era in which technological breakthroughs poised to dominate the coming decades—from artificial intelligence and nanotechnology ...