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10 ‘fake news’ unscientific buzzwords and health fads
[Editor's note: Alex Berezow is Senior Fellow of Biomedical Science at the American Council on Science and Health. He holds ...
Video: Organic food is a great business but a bad environmental investment
[Editor's note: Bjorn Lomborg is director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and a visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School.] There are no health benefits ...
After months without a secretary of agriculture, former Georgia governor Sonny Perdue confirmed to post
After months without a secretary of agriculture, the Senate voted Monday evening [April 24, 2017] to confirm former Georgia Gov ...
Gene mapping may raise false hopes, some scientists worry
Harvard geneticist George Church is convinced everyone should have his or her genomes sequenced. Such tests would reveal the rare ...
Organic farming can never feed the world
Organic food has become the fastest-growing sector of the U.S. food industry. . . . Buying it makes us feel like we’re ...
Stem cell debate at the center of hockey legend Gordie Howe’s last years
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Internationally known as “Mr ...
Gene database promises greater accuracy to breast cancer risk assessment
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Doctors can now give ...
USA Today editorial: GMO labels scare consumers
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Mandatory [GMO] labeling — set ...
‘FDA approval of genetically engineered salmon is win for environment’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. After 20 years of ...
Liberia’s fight with ebola not over yet, cause of resurgence still a mystery
Six cases of Ebola have surfaced in Liberia in the two months since the nation was declared free of the ...
Dolezal delusion: Scientists challenge claim there’s no biological basis to racial differences
The saga of Rachel Dolezal, who recently resigned as president of the Spokane, Wash., chapter of the NAACP after it ...
Organic Consumers Association berates media for attacking Chipotle’s GMO free move
Since when do the mainstream news media, in a country that worships at the altar of capitalism and the free ...
USA Today editorial: Doubting safety of GMOs is a “kooky notion”
Americans love conspiracy theories: The 1969 moon landing actually occurred on a Hollywood set. Fluoride in drinking water was a ...
Jolie effect? Will breast cancer mutation carriers follow Angela’s lead in opting for life altering surgeries?
Sometimes celebrities share too much in public; sometimes celeb sharing can help save lives. Angelina Jolie, an otherwise fairly discreet ...
US ‘Wild West’ of fertility industry
The Utah Legislature has taken a step into territory where state lawmakers rarely tread. It passed a law giving children conceived ...
CDC faced a nearly impossible balancing act with Ebola, and failed
In an attempt to claim public concerns from turning into mass hysteria, the CDC made some major blunders--some medical and ...
Geography trumps genes in determining lifespan
Living in the Southeast is bad for your health. There is a huge range in the death rates across American ...
Fried food packs a greater caloric punch for some, based on genetics
A diet full of fried foods isn't good for anyone, but it may result in more weight gain for people ...
Celebrity “meat” launches bioethics discussion
Bite Labs wants to grow meats from celebrity tissue to make into artisanal salami. The company wants to "prompt widespread ...
Geneticists unraveling why autism strikes boys more than girls
It has long been clear that autism strikes boys more often than girls. But when girls do get the condition, ...
Bad things can happen when food companies listen to anti-GMO activists instead of consumers
In removing genetically modified ingredients from Cheerios, General Mills joins the growing number of companies that are bending, not to ...
Pentagon speeding toward rapid DNA technology
Researchers are closing in on the final steps of a new system to analyze human DNA in 90 minutes instead ...
23andMe’s rush to market irresponsible
Pretty soon, you'll be able to swab your nose or mouth at home and be able to find out whether ...
FDA should regulate home genetic tests, just like pregnancy tests
Opening the door to genetic testing and its potential health benefits to anyone with $99 and the desire to spit ...
23andMe debacle: Government wants to protect you from your own genome
Did you know that you cannot be trusted with knowledge of your own genetic background? That's what the Food and ...
Test-tube baby boom: 5 million births and climbing
The world's population of so-called test-tube babies is booming, with half of the estimated 5 million children born through assisted ...
Researchers find gene for underarm odor
The following is an excerpt. Ah, the sweet smell of science: An English study published Monday confirms a link between ...
World Food Prize goes for work on biotech crops
The following is an edited excerpt. As governments, food aid organizations and other groups are thinking big in their efforts ...
