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Video: RFK, Jr. claims he’s a libertarian on many issues. Reason magazine challenges him on accusations of a “conspiracist mindset”
RFK Jr. on libertarianism, Tulsi Gabbard, conspiracy theories, drugs, guns, free speech, and more ...
Viewpoint: ‘Responsible research and innovation’ — Activist doublespeak for blocking technological innovation
No sensible person could favor irresponsible research and innovation. So RRI—"responsible research and innovation"—may sound like an innocuous idea. As it takes ...
‘USDA has been aware for years that its oversight of organic food fraud has been a massive failure’. Here’s what’s needed
Amended U.S. Department of Agriculture rules announced last month suggest the agency has high hopes for plans to crack down on fraud ...
Viewpoint: Will crop biotechnology breakthroughs usher in a new ‘Green Revolution’?
A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution that will boost crop production, shrink agriculture's environmental ...
Video: Reason TV examines California ruling that re-classifies bees as fish as a means to ‘protect’ them
For the past few years, government officials and agricultural groups in California have been fighting over the question: Are bees ...
Viewpoint: Britain’s deregulation of agricultural gene editing a good first step — but further reform needed
Britain's deregulatory plans around GMO crops focus on gene editing, a type of genetic modification that "is heavily restricted in the EU." ...
Video: Viewpoint — Why GMOs are good for us
Activists have convinced Americans that "organic" food is better—healthier, better-tasting, life-extending. As a result, poor parents feel guilty if they ...
Persuasion machines: AI can now debate humans. We still win — for now
Stand aside, Siri and Alexa. An IBM team led by artificial intelligence (A.I.) researcher Noam Slonim has devised a system ...
Genetically modified AquaBounty salmon hits US markets after two decades of regulatory delays — and it’s already sold out
Way back in 1995, biotech company AquaBounty began the process of seeking regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration ...
Viewpoint: FDA took 24 years to approve fast-growing GM salmon. Let’s hope lab-made meat, dairy hit the market sooner
[Numerous] startups are pursuing the production of cultured meats including Israel-based Future Meat Technologies and Dutch companies Meatable and Mosa ...
Will Biden Administration preserve Trump USDA’s science-based crop biotechnology rules?
"Listen to the science" was an oft-heard riposte in political debates about how the government should respond to the COVID-19 ...
Viewpoint: Activists aim to block GM chestnut tree by hyping potential risks and ignoring real benefits
For more than 30 years, the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF) has been engaged in a privately financed program .... to produce ...
Viewpoint: Bayer caved to anti-science trial lawyers by settling glyphosate-cancer lawsuits
Bayer, the German pesticide and seed company, has agreed to establish a $10 billion fund that aims to resolve current ...
Viewpoint: At $17/pound, vertically farmed vegetables are nowhere near sustainable
On [June 10] the city council of Jersey City, New Jersey [voted] on awarding a three-year, $1 million contract to ...
Viewpoint: LA restaurants tried to sell groceries during the COVID-19 pandemic. Why did the city shut them down?
A few Los Angeles restaurants struggling to maintain footing amid the COVID-19 outbreak identified a clever way to generate revenue ...
Video: Biohackers take coronavirus vaccine into their own hands
A collective of biohackers has begun circulating a document proposing a plan to create, test, and distribute a vaccine to ...
Climate change, COVID-19 and GMOs: When should the public trust expert opinion?
In the midst of the current crisis over the coronavirus pandemic, we often face decisions about the extent to which ...
US birth rate hits record low—and that might be a good thing
The U.S. total fertility rate has dropped to below 1.73 births per woman, according to a new report from the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bee-pocalypse’—one of the 2010s biggest overblown moral panics
Human beings are anxious creatures. We worry about things that might kill us. We worry about things that might kill ...
EPA wants scientists to share their data: Will it promote government transparency or threaten public health?
"The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine ...
Viewpoint: Hectoring Americans to go vegan will do ‘almost nothing’ to combat climate change
Eating meat is bad for the climate—or at least that was one of the main conclusions highlighted in a flood ...
Viewpoint: While experts fight about red meat, eat a diet that makes sense for you
Nutrition researchers and doctors are at each other's throats once again, this time over a recommendation published in the Annals ...
No Bee Armageddon: US honeybee colony numbers stable for 25 years. Thank capitalism?
Warnings of an impending "bee apocalypse" became widespread in 2006, after some commercial beekeepers reported the mass disappearance of worker ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s ‘de facto’ GMO crop ban, mandatory labeling scheme ‘hinder innovation’
An excellent new paper from a trio of Danish researchers, two of whom are based out of the University of Copenhagen, argues that the European ...
Viewpoint: Gene-edited kids are no riskier than the non-edited variety
"The introduction of genetic modifications into future generations could have permanent and possibly harmful effects on the species," a group ...
Viewpoint: Despite anti-GMO opposition, poor farmers will finally plant ‘life-saving’ golden rice
Golden Rice which has been genetically engineered to have higher levels of the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene is finally about ...
Could green benefits of biotech crops win over ‘ideological’ environmentalists?
A new study in Nature Sustainability reports that “[e]xtensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields ...
‘Stupidity-inducing environment’: Are we getting dumber?
People are getting dumber. So concludes a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Using military conscription data ...
