Jeffrey M. Smith
Are GMOs causing an increase in allergies?
The potential for allergies from foods with genetically modified ingredients is no higher than that in any food, including organics ...
Re-examining 10 science-challenged studies suggesting GMOs are harmful
The blog "10 Scientific Studies Proving GMOs Can Be Harmful To Human Health" is now a fixture on cyberspace. A ...
Do GMO foods or glyphosate cause gluten allergies?
Anti-GMO campaigners continue to link GMOs and the herbicide glyphosate to gluten allergies--even though there is no commercialized genetically engineered ...
Why GMOs aren’t responsible for a spike in food allergies
What's behind the rise in food allergies? There are a lot of possible answers to this, but it's probably not ...
Pseudo-science alert: For $9,500, Politico provides disinformation about crop biotechnology, GMOs and pesticides
When Politico strays from politics into agricultural biotech, its naiveté and lack of science expertise shows through ...
Viewpoint: The public loses when a ‘prestigious’ journal such as Nature indulges in political activism
Is this really about science, or is something else going on here? ...
Viewpoint: Activists promotion of ‘fog of misinformation’ about GMOs challenges science communicators
Activists spend all day peddling nonsense. If they spent that kind of time on constructive issues…sigh. [A] local radio station ...
Survey showing health benefits from non-GMO diet? ‘The misinformation is staggering’
It was the stuff of anti-GMO activists' dreams: A “peer-reviewed” paper, published in a scientific-looking journal with an impressive title, detailing ...
‘GMOs Revealed’: Documentary series delivers familiar arguments from the fringe
Multi-part documentary series will be rolled out over nine days, offering familiar voices from the anti-GMO fringe ...
Food Evolution director Scott Hamilton Kennedy: ‘I wanted to reset the debate’ over food and farming
Oscar-nominated director talks with the Genetic Literacy Project about the reaction his documentary has received, both from GMO critics and ...
Activists claim that without long-term studies, GMOs cannot be considered safe: What does science say?
No multi-generational GMO food studies? Bollocks. There are dozens, and all conclude biotech seeds are as safe or safer than ...
Infographic: Who to trust—and who not to trust—about food and farming
With conflicting claims about scientific topics everywhere on the internet, it’s hard to know who to trust. This is especially ...
Infographic: 6 ‘snake oil salesmen’ who profit from food fears
Several activists opposed to genetic engineering run small media empires, including websites, TV and radio programs. Scientists say they are ...
Activist Jeffrey Smith launches effort to block use of Zika-fighting GM mosquitoes in Cayman Islands
[Editor's note: Read more about Jeffery Smith and the Institute for Responsible Technology here.] Opponents of the use of genetically ...
Non-GMO movement plagued by ‘rampant sexism’, critic says
It’s no secret that [moms are] among the most coveted demographics of the non-GMO marketing machine. Jeffrey Smith, one of ...
Worst 10 list: Advocacy groups that put ideology ahead of science on food and farming issues
Which organizations promote ideology over science in the debate over crop biotechnology? The list includes some of the most well-known ...
Cognitive dissonance: Why some people ignore science and reject GMO safety
Logical, science-based arguments often seem to have no affect on people hardened in their opposition to GMOs. The reasons are ...
When Celebrity And Science Collide: Hollywood And The Anti-Biotechnology Food Movement
Celebrityhood does not equate with science knowledge. The opinions of music and media stars are no more relevant to the ...
Australian chemical agency joins EPA, Canada, Europe in rejecting IARC’s glyphosate cancer claim
Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority, which serves as the country's chemical regulatory agency, has concluded that the herbicide glyphosate ...
Nature busts anti-GMO myth: Gene swapping among plants, insects common occurence
Examining the genes of wasps, moths and butterflies reveals widespread genetic exchange between species. What does this mean for our ...
Who funds the grassroots anti-GMO movement?
A farmer discusses the tactics of anti-GMO leaders and how they use grassroots movements to promote organic products ...
Frustrated Floridian has had it–Satirical rebuke of activists blocking GMO mosquitoes
A goddamned mosquito just bit me on my face in my own house because I live in Florida and it’s ...
Anti-GMO crusader Jeffrey Smith: ‘Labeling GMOs was never the end goal it was a tactic to get them banned’
Because “public-interest” groups cloak themselves with the feel-good mantle of protecting consumers, the environment, animals, etc., the motives of such ...
Anti-GMO activist Jeffrey Smith says labeling push never about ‘right to know’
In a letter sent out [July 30], anti-GMO activist Jeffrey Smith admits what we have suspected all along. Labeling GMOs ...
11 GMO Myths, Part II: Do GMOs pose health and ecological dangers?
Part two, of a two-part series debunking myths about GMOs , deals with myths about GMO's purported negative impacts on ...
Anti-biotech GM Watch’s connections to Maharishi TM cult, industry money
Who are the people behind the biotech news site GM Watch and what is their connection to the religious movement ...
Scoop on ‘leaky gut syndrome’–And effect of pathogenic gut microbes on health
Do microbes in your gut cause pathologies elsewhere in the body like the heart? ...
