Genetic Literacy Project
‘Your spatula will kill you’: How a junk academic journal and a credulous media touched off yet another chemophobia scare
For months, the media indulged in a frenzy of fearmongering, plastering headlines about toxic flame retardants supposedly hiding in your ...
GLP podcast: Will Trump let RFK, Jr. ‘go wild on the food’? A farmer forecasts the future of US agriculture
Tew Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has never hesitated to attack modern agriculture. Though most ...
Race and evolution: How our political beliefs about human differences endanger health care
W[/drocap]hen it comes to race and ethnicity, we’ve long been juggling sociocultural constructs like they’re scientific gospel. A new study ...
What’s ‘sustainable abundance’ and how can we deploy technological innovation to achieve it?
We're at a decisive moment. Throughout history, each generation faces unique challenges and opportunities, perceiving their times as unprecedented. This ...
Top 10 anti-biotech organizations: Meet the most notorious groups pushing anti-science propaganda
What can explain the recent meteoric rise in anti-science beliefs? Under the guise of advocating for consumer transparency or protecting ...
Viewpoint: After an unexpected and controversial federal ruling, the regulatory future of gene edited crops in the US is cloudy
The use of molecular techniques to create genetically engineered (GE) crops has now become trapped in the over-regulation of a ...
Fat… and yet fit? Here’s the skinny
As Fox Sports reported in 2016, the average weight of a starting NFL linesman was 315 pounds, aggregating to over 25 ...
GLP podcast: Will RFK, Jr. restore or destroy public trust in science and medicine?
According to 2024 Gallup polls and Pew Research Surveys, just 22% of U.S. adults trust the federal government, only one-third ...
How climate change is altering the look, taste and nutrition content of fruits and vegetables
The economic cost of food waste in Australia is staggering. It’s estimated $36.6 billion is lost to the economy every year ...
Viewpoint: Courts challenge the contrived but growing relationship between trial lawyers and environmental activists
For a decade now, a brigade of climate zealots, flanked by their legal consiglieres, has been waging a shadow war ...
Viewpoint: Biotechnology rejectionists and many regenerative farming advocates maintain that the Green Revolution caused more harm than good. Here are the facts.
After the Second World War, regional famines began to occur. Believing that increasing agricultural performance can be the solution to ...
Viewpoint: New Health and Human Services Secretary RFK, Jr. — America’s health, food and farming nightmare begins
Without question, the United States of America leads the world in health and agricultural innovation. We have created a system ...
Does the US uniquely require more vaccinations than other countries as RFK Jr. and other shot critics claim?
Issue: Childhood vaccination rates fell worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, reductions in childhood vaccination were not universal, which may ...
Are vaccines ‘pushed on us’ because they are mega-money makers for doctors?
"Ask your pediatrician how much their bonuses are when they gaslight you into thinking your child needs vaccines." Posts like ...
GLP podcast: Africa needs ‘regenerative’ farming, activists say; Time to ban menthol cigarettes? Trump wrong to leave World Health Organization?
Some public health experts claim that banning menthol cigarettes will save hundreds of thousands of lives. Are they right, or ...
The humble potato is undergoing a genetic revolution. Here’s how and what that means
In a field near the Dutch village of Angeren, a biotechnology company named Solynta grows potatoes in square plots, about 16 ...
Are you a fervent reader? It’s likely genetic
The number of people who read for fun appears to be steadily dropping. Fifty percent of UK adults say they ...
Precision agriculture: Promoted as a revolutionary improvement in farming, the promise is finally coming to fruition
For 20 years, Pablo Sobron sought a better way to learn exactly what was in the soil, rock, or any other ...
Viewpoint: The ‘post genomic era’ reveals nothing less than a new biology. We just don’t know how to talk about it
You could be forgiven for thinking that the turn of the millennium was a golden age for the life sciences ...
Breakthrough technologies: Global poll highlights embrace of AI in health care, gene editing and cell based meat, although optimism of U.S. respondents lags
Scientific advances will only succeed if people are willing to embrace them. Leaps by Bayer (the company’s impact investment arm) ...
Dietary restriction or good genes—Which has a greater impact on lifespan?
As people who research ageing like to quip: the best thing you can do to increase how long you live ...
GLP podcast: Trump pardons ‘drug kingpin’; Downside of ‘do your own research’; IVF clinic swaps embryos
Ross Ulbricht was poised to spend the rest of his life in prison for running an illicit online drug market ...
Readers beware: AI vaccums up information from the internet and spews it out
If you have used Google lately and been lucky – or unlucky – enough to encounter an answer to your ...
Viewpoint: “The sheer number of vaccines pumped into kids today is alarming’—Why activist claims are wrong and dangerous
This is not a new refrain, especially for those of us who work in infectious disease biomedical research, but a ...
Old Fashioned or aspartame sweetener: Which contains more dangerous chemicals?
Have you ever been to a snooty cocktail party and ordered a Diet Coke from the bar only to get the look? ...
Viewpoint: What is sustainability? What are pesticides? The way media and politicians define ideologically diffuse words shape policy – often for the worse
Reality is perceived by the definitions we give; the black and white lines we draw upon a grey canvas. So ...
The real causes for the ‘surge’ in austim diagnoses—Facts that RFK. Jr. and other vaccine rejectionists continue to get wrong
A change in how we diagnose and report autism and not vaccines, glyphosate or chemtrails is the prime mover as ...
Viewpoint: Africa needs to reject commercial agriculture and embrace small farms if it hopes to address food insecurity
Rates of hunger in Africa are unacceptably high and getting worse. The UN State of Food Security and Nutrition in the ...
