Genetic Literacy Project

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where individuals with limited knowledge or skills in a specific area tend to ...

“A sharp partisan divide remains over new Covid boosters,” reads the headline announcing a recent poll from Politico, as respiratory ...

"It really implies risk when there is none." That's how geneticist and farmer Kevin Folta summarizes the fatal flaw behind ...

Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for ...

Public health and access to lifesaving vaccines are on the line in a high-stakes leadership battle at the Centers for ...

Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...

Last week, I received an email from a law firm asking ACSH to promote its groundless allegations about the dangers ...

Fifteen years ago, 3‑D printing was heralded as the technology that would revolutionize manufacturing, democratizing production and allowing anyone with ...

I made this 10-minute documentary, SUNBLOCK, because I love farmers and ranchers and want to tell their stories. This film ...

After RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA vaccine technology research programs last week, I had big plans of multiple articles I ...

Carbon is a “hot topic” in an age of Climate Change (pun intended). That is playing out in unique ways ...

Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine two widely separated human groups living for thousands of years in different cultural and ecological ...

The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...

COVID-19 has not disappeared. According to the most recent weekly update from the CDC, wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...

The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern ...

With all the hype about the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize and accelerate innovation, there are some ...

As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a ...

A group of European researchers argued in a recent journal article that permitting the use of gene edited crops in ...

If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...

Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin has said he wants the federal agency to accelerate scientific safety evaluations of various chemicals, ...

The debate on the extent and necessity of regulating the use of plant protection products essentially concerns an objective assessment ...

Obesity may have finally found its match in Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are helping many millions of people ...

In the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the ...

If you cannot engineer the organism, engineer its microbiome. Since scientists began exploring how to solve problems using synthetic biology, ...

The taboo against cousin marriages may be overblown--and there may even be an evolutionary argument in support of it in ...

Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...

The discussion around glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, is becoming increasingly charged, especially with new studies surfacing that suggest a ...

Vaccinations not only safeguard individual health but also preserve the collective health of our communities, ensuring that preventable infectious diseases ...