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Why activist criticism of GMO salmon is more scare than substance
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Some environmentalists are assailing ...
WHO’s IARC erroneous classification of coffee as carcinogenic shows system broken
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The World Health Organizations’s ...
One year after ‘Fearbola’ hysteria, what we’ve learned about dealing with epidemics?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. It’s been a year ...
Forced to rely on agroecology, as sanctions ease will Cuba embrace agricultural technology?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Cuba was once one ...
Slate guts scare-mongering doc ‘That Sugar Film’ featured uncritically by NY Times
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Anti-GMO critics could use lesson in critical thinking
The debate over GMOs is a case study in critical thinking. By exploring the errors in fact and thinking circulated by ...
Scientists have created a luscious tasting non GMO tomato, but supermarkets won’t sell it
Tomato lovers, rejoice, for science has achieved the impossible: the perfect supermarket tomato. The Garden Gem won’t bruise during shipping, ...
Caitlyn Jenner and Rachel Dolezal: Debating gender and racial identity
Some in the queer community have summarily dismissed any possible similarities between Caitlyn Jenner - who recently came out as a trans ...
Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Case of the maligned Arctic Apple
Dr. Oz gets it wrong again on science, this time on genetic engineering on last week's show on the non-browning ...
Food Babe’s shocking news: Food has chemicals in it!
“I couldn’t believe there was beaver’s ass in my vanilla ice cream, coal tar in my mac and cheese, yoga ...
Genetic engineering needs space from regulators
The newly approved, genetically engineered “Innate” brand of potato is quite remarkable. It is bruise resistant and contains 50 to ...
Are genetic databases and medical confidentiality compatible?
Personalized medicine, the hoped-for use of the information in our genes to inform our medical care, may end up helping ...
Human evolution isn’t all competition: it’s cooperation, too
People often have a grim view of what it means to be human. There’s this conception that inside each of ...
Fish-farmed genetically modified salmon could help alleviate overexploited wild fisheries
Seafood remains one of the last types of foods that we harvest from the wild at a commercial level, and ...
Climate change challenges demand more than GMO seeds
When my daughter turned 7 last week, we celebrated with a homemade chocolate cake. I wonder whether she’ll be able ...
In push to snare low income shoppers, Whole Foods to put cigarette-like warnings on GMO foods
Whole Foods’ central conceit as a company is that it sells only the best, healthiest food—which sometimes requires paying more ...
Conservation efforts save some species, drive others to extinction
Species reintroductions are some of the most dramatic and compelling stories in conservation. Bringing back wolves, black-footed ferrets, condors, and ...
Food challenges require overhaul of global food system not GMOs
Over the next 50 years, climate change will transform the world in ways we have only begun to imagine. Humans ...
Evolution is sometimes messy or even outright ridiculous
In the real world, evolution can’t explain itself. It acts without intention, and unless we find enough revealing fossils, we ...
Photographic romance of GMO breeding
The genetic modification of foods is not the sort of topic that inspires ambivalence. When photographer Murray Ballard first visited the John ...
Our Darwinian ideas of male infidelity and female loyalty have long been misguided
Ever since Darwin there had been an assumption among evolutionary biologists that females were coy and choosy in their sexual ...
Ebola virus preys on human caretaking behaviors for transmission
As the Ebola epidemic in West Africa has spiraled out of control, affecting thousands of Liberians, Sierra Leonians, and Guineans, ...
How will religious authorities deal with lab-grown meat?
In Genesis, God granted humans dominion over animals. In modern times, that dominion has spawned one of the planet’s biggest ...
Random events in human development important for both nature and nuture
Is our behavior determined by genetics, or are we products of our environments? What matters more for the development of ...
Find your genetic soulmate for the low, low price of…
Over the centuries, physics, chemistry, and biology have transformed what once was seen as mysterious or even magical—the rotation of ...
Humans colonize their homes with microbes, not the other way around
Microbes are everywhere. They live on and inside us, and cover most things we come into contact with, including our ...
Do Koko and other ‘talking’ apes communicate the same as humans?
Last week, people around the world mourned the death of beloved actor and comedian Robin Williams. According to the Gorilla Foundation ...
Efforts to cure rare genetic diseases target people who conquered them
Biologist Stephen Friend is president and co-founder of the nonprofit research organization Sage Bionetworks in Seattle, and co-director of the ...
