Genetic Literacy Project
Are geniuses more likely to commit crimes than people of average intelligence?
“Our society tends to regard as a sickness any mode of thought or behavior that is inconvenient for the system ...
Viewpoint: Reflecting on science journalism in 2021 — Four trends that need to be reversed for media to regain credibility
Science journalism is plagued by several critical problems that jeopardize its credibility. If we want the public to be more ...
Will glow-in-the-dark materials someday light our cities?
Around the year 1603, Italian shoemaker and amateur alchemist Vincenzo Casciarolo tried smelting some especially dense stone he had found ...
Viewpoint: Canada poised to join expanding number of countries endorsing crop gene editing. That’s encouraging — but global reform remains elusive
Gene editing, which allows precise edits to the genome, has been widely used for a variety of applications in laboratories ...
GLP Podcast: Academic freedom has limits? UK backtracks on neonic ban; ‘Non-GMO’ tearless onions
Does academic freedom protect professors who spread scientific nonsense online? The UK appears to be backtracking on a pesticide ban ...
Infographic: How is surrogacy regulated around the world?
Surrogacy regulation can differ wildly from state to state and country to country. Take a look at these infographics to ...
A new wave of cow-free milk options are hitting the market. How will traditional dairy farmers fare?
A new wave of cow-less dairy is hitting the market. In the United States, Perfect Day is using genetically modified fungi ...
Sustainable Food Trust and Patrick Holden: Organic industry front group and head operative lobby for organic agri-businesses, aligns with discredited biotech activist-critics, disguises funding sources
The Sustainable Food Trust (SFT) is one of the most prominent organizations in the UK promoting organic food. It also acts as ...
Viewpoint: How the hazard-based, European-promoted ‘Precautionary Principle’ has undermined global agriculture — and why we should kill it
Twenty years is a long time in the wilderness. Since 2001 and the European Environment Agency’s publication, Late Lessons from Early ...
Dangerous environmental neurotoxins are on the rise and climate change could make it worse. Can anything be done?
In the summer of 2021, a toxic, smoky haze stemming from Western wildfires wafted across large parts of the United States, ...
GMO 25-year safety endorsement: 280 science institutions, more than 3,000 studies
Despite vehement public debate, there is an overwhelming scientific consensus that GE foods present no greater risk than non-GMO crops, ...
Viewpoint: When it comes to chemical safety, there’s a difference between ‘movie science’ and the real thing
I loved the movie Erin Brockovich played by Julia Roberts who played a lawyer’s assistant fighting the interplay of corporate greed ...
GLP Podcast: 10 ‘stupid’ food memes; COVID drugs are here; What makes someone a narcissist?
People believe a lot of nonsense about food and farming; let's debunk the top-10 worst of these "truisms." The FDA ...
Pandemic has highlighted resilience — as well as weaknesses — of the global food system: UN Food and Agriculture Organization report
Countries need to make their agrifood systems more resilient to sudden shocks of the kind witnessed during the COVID-19 pandemic, ...
Ongoing dispute over the origins of COVID-19 raises a prickly question: Should consensus play a role in science?
After having been told for over a year that there was a scientific consensus that Covid had a natural origin ...
Video: Dramatic visual evidence of the insect-resistant power of Bt maize, without chemical treatment
In clearing out my office recently I came across a DVD of the video Life in a standard and in ...
Viewpoint: If you seriously care about threats posed by climate change, steer clear of organic farming
Reporters like to lecture the public about the importance of science while promoting obviously unscientific ideas when it suits them ...
YouTube’s anti-vax ban: Necessary public health measure or unjustified censorship?
YouTube triggered an uproar [recently], announcing that it would take “down several video channels associated with high-profile anti-vaccine activists including ...
Breakthrough technologies reduce the carbon footprint of US beef production
In 2019, the United States produced approximately $111 billion worth of beef, exporting about 3 billion pounds and employing hundreds ...
GLP Podcast: CRISPR biosensors; Engineered gut microbes; Anti-GMO groups love the lab-leak theory
Researchers have developed a biosensor they say can monitor the activity of CRISPR gene editing in real-time. Synthetic biology is ...
How did this acupuncture study get published in Nature?
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, an unfortunately all-too-common topic for me was the proliferation of dubious acupuncture ...
‘Pesticide’ has become a dirty word. Here’s why most fears are misplaced
Chemophobia is rampant. Some environmental groups, organic promoters and sloppy journalists have successfully made many consumers scared of products that ...
Viewpoint: ‘The bioengineered food label is not expected to have any benefits to human health or the environment’ — The cowardly, useless stupidity behind the new genetic modification law
It’s no secret that Congress sometimes does things – including creating laws – that make little sense and that are contrary ...
Molnupiravir vs paxlovid: What’s the difference between the two approved COVID antivirals?
Following the FDA's granting of Emergency Use Authorization to Merck's molnupiravir and Pfizer's Paxlovid, the only two approved direct-acting antiviral ...
Viewpoint: What drives agricultural sustainability? Not what many ‘environmental organizations’ promote
Anyone who has flown over the Canadian prairies in any of the previous summers will notice the tremendous number of ...
What makes narcissists tick?
Chances are you’ve met a narcissist. Someone who thinks they’re better than everyone else, dominates the conversation and loves the ...
Viewpoint: mRNA and synthetic biology offer rays of hope after Annus Horribilis
The season of retrospectives is upon us. The past year will be long remembered with dismay and sadness, as the four horsemen—war, famine, pestilence and plague—each had robust ...
GLP Podcast: COVID vaccines; Lab leak scandal; UK embraces CRISPR crops—the biggest stories of 2021
The COVID-19 vaccines saved a lot of lives in 2021, but convincing some Americans to take them proved to be ...
