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Viewpoint: Trump derides climate research. Here’s how scientists are fighting back
As climate change has grown from a distant threat to a present danger, federal support for global change research also grew: from ...
Viewpoint: The farm economy in the U.S. is cratering. Here’s why farmers are unlikely to abandon Trumpononics
Fall is here, the harvest is coming in, but President Donald Trump’s trade war rages on and China won’t buy American farmers’ soybeans. That’s ...
Learning from the GMO stigmatization debacle: Why we shouldn’t call cell-based protein ‘lab meat’
As the rise of nontraditional meat accelerates, the Agriculture Department is seeking input on names for these novel foods “that ...
Viewpoint: Turning farms into carbon repositories can’t stave off ‘climate catastrophe’
In late June, overlooked amid pandemic, economic crisis, and protest headlines, a bipartisan cohort of United States senators introduced a ...
Why evolution is more complicated than Darwin imagined
Darwinian evolution [is] the transmission of genes and traits down the family line. DNA, it turns out, can also be ...
Did math build a barrier between scientists and God?
In a new book called The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide, Michael E. Hobart offers a new twist on ...
Democratic politicians’ mostly anti-GMO views lead list of liberal anti-science positions
... The liberal obsession with things that are “natural” or “organic” often also clashes with science...just because a product is ...
Rapid DNA testing may threaten personal privacy, civil rights
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Your DNA can now ...
Foreign spies now stealing GMO secrets, not just military secrets
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the FBI caught ...
Egg-freezing rhetoric poses major ideological struggle for American women
Facebook and Apple’s offer to cover the costs of egg freezing for their employees has made a large range of headlines. “Not ...
Ethics issue aside, freezing human eggs may be dangerous
When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg freezing benefits, ...