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Anti-GMO activists take page out of anti-chemical and anti-BPA lobby, targeting the ‘black box’ of endocrine disruption

Andrew Porterfield | 
Anti-GMO activists are taking a page out of the anti-chemical lobby in claiming that genetic modification can disrupt normal endocrine ...
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GLP podcast and video: ESG undermines sustainable farming? Top-10 anti-biotech propagandists; FDA’s ‘healthy’ food labels

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Environmental-Social-Governance (ESG) metrics are supposed to help promote sustainable industry, but could they actually undermine efforts to make farming more ...
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Do vaccines contain glyphosate? Anti-GMO claim requires ‘very unlikely scenario’

Andrew Porterfield | 
Many GMO critics believe that vaccines are contaminated with glyphosate. A look at how vaccines are made and how glyphosate ...
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Education, politics, religion may have no impact on our acceptance of GMOs

Andrew Porterfield | 
A study examining the public's 2006 views on GMOs offers a glimpse into the evolution of the ongoing debate over ...
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Does Big Ag control farmers through seeds patents? Farmers don’t think so.

Andrew Porterfield | 
Farmers have a wide range of choices for seeds, including conventional and GMO. And most, for economic and performance rather ...
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What causes cancer? Challenge is distinguishing ‘between myth and reality’

Josh Bloom | 
Misleading information about what can and can't cause cancer is incredibly prevalent in our society ...
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Organic vs conventional food fight: Focus on pesticides distracts from real environmental problems

Marc Brazeau | 
Has GMO use really led to a “flood” of pesticide use, as critics contend? That’s not what the data show ...
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Anti-GMO group March Against Monsanto promotes, profits from anti-vaccine ads

Mark Lynas | 
Visit the March Against Monsanto website and you'll see a strange ad peppering the pages, among the usual dubious stories about ...
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‘GMOs Revealed’: Documentary series delivers familiar arguments from the fringe

Tim Barker | 
Multi-part documentary series will be rolled out over nine days, offering familiar voices from the anti-GMO fringe ...
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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 ...
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Anti-vax Organic Consumers Association, linked to measles outbreak, has deep ties to anti-GMO conspiracist USRTK

Mary Mangan | 
The Organic Consumers Association uses its sizable budget to fund front groups, like Gary Ruskin's US Right to Know, that ...
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Trolls and shills: How disinformation sites InfoWars, Natural News and US Right to Know manufacture fake news

Lawyers suing Monsanto say the company pays people to defend it online, without citing any evidence to back up the ...
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How US NGOs are exploiting Europe’s precautionary chemophobia to ban glyphosate and GMOs

David Zaruk | 
Environmental NGOs have a harder time influencing the evidence-based US regulatory system, so they're taking the fight to Europe — ...
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Cognitive dissonance: Why some people ignore science and reject GMO safety

Andrew Porterfield | 
Logical, science-based arguments often seem to have no affect on people hardened in their opposition to GMOs. The reasons are ...
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Mike Adams, Alex Jones and Joe Mercola: How the web turns quacks into science gurus

Stephanie M. Lee | 
Welcome to the vast universe of self-built social media empires devoted to spreading false, misleading, and polarizing science and health ...
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Real story of anti-GMO sensation Rachel Parent: Idealist or pawn of ‘natural’ marketers?

David Warmflash, Jon Entine | 
Teen anti-GMO activist Rachel Parent tours the world, 'testifying' at anti-GMO tribunals and delivers Ted Talks about the dangers of ...
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2016 Presidential Race: Clinton, Trump, Stein, and Johnson on Food, Farming and GMOs

David Warmflash | 
Here is a GMO policy primer, lining up not just Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, but also Libertarian Party candidate ...
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Facebook bows to anti-science activists, shuts down ‘We Love GMOs and Vaccines’

Popular anti-quack website shut down by Facebook after protests from quacks ...
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Science communicators condemn Facebook’s censorship of pro-science “We Love GMOs and Vaccines”

Anti-GMO and anti-vaccine activists--many of them are the same--have manipulated Facebook to shut down a pro science site, stirring sharp ...
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Mechanisms behind epigenetics still widely misunderstood

Lila Abassi | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The scientific community reacted ...
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Natural News’ Mike Adams libelously attacks Science-Based Medicine’s David Gorski

David Gorski, Jon Entine | 
The "Health Ranger" is known for his attacks against science advocates, even encouraging they be killed for supporting vaccinations. Now ...
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Kevin Folta on winning Borlaug Ag Comm Award, year of attacks from anti-GMO activists

Kevin Folta | 
After year of attacks from activist, Kevin Folta wins prestigious, international award for science outreach and communication ...
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11 GMO Myths, Part II: Do GMOs pose health and ecological dangers?

Michael Hess, Peter Hess | 
Part two, of a two-part series debunking myths about GMOs , deals with myths about GMO's purported negative impacts on ...
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‘Alternative medicine’ leaders push microbiome, but bacteria’s role in human health still unsettled

Kavin Senapathy | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. February 29th kicked off ...
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Scoop on ‘leaky gut syndrome’–And effect of pathogenic gut microbes on health

Ben Locwin | 
Do microbes in your gut cause pathologies elsewhere in the body like the heart? ...

Dr. Mercola offering $250,000 matching grant to support radical factions of the organic industry’s anti-GMO efforts

Kavin Senapathy | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. This week [February 22], ...
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Are GMOs to blame for the loss of nutrients in our fruits and vegetables?

Andrew Porterfield | 
Mineral and nutrient depletion, blamed on GMOs by anti-biotech activists, began long before GMOs were introduced. Time to look for ...
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