Genetic Literacy Project
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 ...
Viewpoint: Here is why Trump’s announced plan to stop US contributions to the World Health Organization will kill people
I just spent the past 12 hours traveling from Delhi to Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, and during our ...
CIA’s cautious (and dubious) embrace of COVID-19 lab leak theory is likely to spur more controversy, not end it
The calamitous global outbreak of COVID-19 has sparked intense scrutiny of its origins. One school of thought holds that the ...
GLP podcast: AI chatbot convinces student to commit suicide. ‘Smart’ agriculture isn’t so smart; Will alcohol warning labels save lives?
Another teenager has committed suicide following some horrifying encouragement from an AI chatbot to "please die." Who's at fault when ...
Viewpoint: Europe is rushing to regulate microplastics and activists are clamoring for the U.S. to follow suit. Good science or environmental folly?
When regulating toxic substances, we first identify a risk (aim), and then, and only then, take action to reduce that ...
Your cells are dying. All the time.
Billions of cells die in your body every day. Some go out with a bang, others with a whimper. They ...
Biotechnology led to dramatic innovations in agriculture and human health in 2024
As 2024 fades into the rearview, it's a good time to reflect on the year that was—and what it might ...
European farmers concerned about climate change push to ground EU’s ‘Green Deal’ because of it restricts crop gene editing
Leveraging the proposed European Green Deal (EGD) announced in December 2019, the EU aims to become the first climate-neutral continent ...
Why ‘Do your own research’ and ‘Believe in Science’ encourage science illiteracy
During the pandemic, we turned to our leaders for updates on the rapidly worsening, unprecedented situation. As days turned to ...
Breakthrough Institute report: ‘Why genetically engineered microbes need a pathway to market’
Genetically engineered microbes need a pathway to market. Fertilizer runoff and nitrous oxide emissions remain massive issues for agricultural climate ...
What is ‘genetic conflict’ and how does it shape human psychology?
As a species, humans like to think that we are fully in control of our decisions and behavior. But just ...
Viewpoint: Agroecology and other variations on organic farming that seek to mimic nature are doomed to fail
Organic farming, regenerative agriculture, and agroecology all aim to mimic nature under the assumption that natural systems offer the best ...
GLP podcast: Our food is poisoning us? Here are the facts about red dye, pesticides and processing
With a few thumb taps on a smart phone, we can order an almost limitless selection of foods and have ...
Antibiotic resistance may be reversible. Here’s how
Peering through his microscope in 1910, Franco-Canadian microbiologist Félix d'Hérelle noticed some “clear spots” in his bacterial cultures, an anomaly ...
MAHA v. Big Food: Will a left-MAGA coalition crystallize to fundamentally change the US food system?
The new Trump administration could be coming for your snacks. For years, the federal government has steered clear of regulating ...
How a brain-threatening parasite could soon be programed to deliver life-saving drugs
Parasites take an enormous toll on human and veterinary health. But researchers may have found a way for patients with brain ...
Vertical farming won’t feed the world or even the poor. So what are its advantages?
Vertical farms look hi-tech and sophisticated, but the premise is simple – plants are grown without soil, with their roots ...
‘You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please’: A 14-year old took AI seriously. Who is responsible?
Demonic forces which lured unsuspecting innocents to their deaths were once the subject of myth. No longer. And while we ...
RFK Jr. claims to want healthy food, but demonizes the science that makes it possible
It’s been an... interesting couple of weeks, to put it mildly. Donald Trump nominated RFK Jr. as Secretary of the ...
To help with climate change, carbon capture will have to evolve
More than 200 kilometers off Norway’s coast in the North Sea sits the world’s first offshore carbon-capture-and-storage project. Built in ...
Viewpoint: ‘Chemical cocktail’ speculation is homeopathic hysteria
Blood samples of pregnant women have detectable levels of chemicals and that 'chemical cocktail' may pose [a] "neurotoxic risk", according ...
Viewpoint: DEI is infecting America’s science and medical establishment
Dr. H. Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science since 2019, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during [a] ...
GLP podcast: Modern farming—’a miracle of science’; extreme weather threatens our food supply? Activists promote retracted pesticide study
Food production has absolutely exploded since the 1960s, feeding billions more people while innovative technologies reduced the environmental impact of ...
Here’s what might happen if RFK, Jr. joins Trump’s cabinet
Trump picked Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, leading to questions about ...
Early humans are one of the few animals of that era that did not migrate when the climate cooled
Humans seem to have ... adapted to the last ice age in similar ways to wolves and bears, according to ...
Are plant-based meats healthier?
Unless you live in isolation from supermarkets, you've likely heard of plant-based meats — products made from plant-derived ingredients like ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why RFK, Jr.’s proposal to backburn infectious disease over chronic disease is bad science and public policy
RFK Jr. is dead wrong about “pausing infectious disease research” to focus on chronic diseases You think I’m joking, right? ...
Should agriculture get the blame for antibiotic resistance?
Journalists are an easily spooked bunch. Where scientists see a problem in need of a solution, the press often sees ...
