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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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Conspiracy promoter Mike ‘Health Ranger’ Adams built online disinformation Natural News online empire that subverts science, report finds

Cameron English, Jon Entine | 
Alternative health guru and conspiracy theorist Mike Adams, founder of the popular website Natural News, has been identified as the ...
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Podcast: Facebook vs junk science; ‘Brain-boosting’ supplements; Whole grains really healthy?

Cameron English, Kevin Folta | 
Alternative health champion Mike Adams has been banned from every social media platform but continues to spread his anti-GMO and ...
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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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NY Times’ Eric Lipton defends anti-biotech, anti-vax Moms Across America, which harasses scientists

Journalists like Eric Lipton need to recognize where the real danger lies ...
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Podcast: Meet Mary Mangan—the biologist who crashes anti-GMO events and debunks junk science on Twitter

Cameron English, Mary Mangan | 
Mangan discusses her unique approach to spreading science literacy ...
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Mike Adams’ Natural News anti-GMO and conspiracy site banned from Facebook

Kelly Weill | 
Natural News has nearly 3 million Facebook followers, more than Infowars and Alex Jones combined before Facebook banned them from ...
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Was there Russian collusion? When it comes to prominent anti-GMO groups, the disturbing answer is ‘yes’

Henry Miller, Jon Entine | 
Modern genetic engineering techniques applied to agriculture are making stunning advances. This year, after decades in (gratuitous) regulatory limbo, the ...
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Exploring the alternate reality of Natural News’ Mike Adams’ online ’empire of misinformation’

Jonathan Jarry | 
If there is a Wonderland filled with health scares, monsters, and miraculous concoctions, Mike Adams is building it. And its ...
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Anti-biotechnology fake news: ‘Natural News’ claims RNAi used to ‘eliminate black people’

Mark Lynas | 
Anti-GMO campaigners are promoting a new conspiracy theory conflating the pioneering genetics technology of RNAi with anti-vaxxer myths and a ...
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Monsanto shill alert: Does industry funded GMO research bias findings?

Andrew Porterfield, Jon Entine | 
Can consumers trust "independent" studies funded by corporations that have found genetically modified foods safe? Anti-GMO activists say 'no.' But ...
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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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Food Evolution interview: Could ‘pro science’ documentary inspire a pro-GMO food movement?

Tim Barker | 
Food Evolution director Scott Hamilton Kennedy talks with the Genetic Literacy Project about the film's funding, and challenges the "ruthless ...
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Food Evolution director Scott Hamilton Kennedy: ‘I wanted to reset the debate’ over food and farming

Tim Barker | 
Oscar-nominated director talks with the Genetic Literacy Project about the reaction his documentary has received, both from GMO critics and ...
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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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Breitbart vs. Kellogg’s: Forcing some anti-GMO progressives to choose a side

David Warmflash | 
Critics of GMOs tend to align with the political left. But an ongoing feud between a right-wing news service and ...
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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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Genetic Literacy Project’s Top 6 Stories for the Week, March 6, 2017

From this past week, here are the #GLPTop6 among many great stories on human and agriculture genetics around the world ...
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He’s baaaack: Natural News restored to Google, as founder Mike Adams escalates ‘censorship’ claim

Barry Schwartz | 
[Editor's note: NaturalNews.com was delisted from Google search results on February 23, 2017, for what was later revealed to be ...
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Google delisted Mike Adams’ Natural News website for ‘sneaky’ marketing, not content

Emil Karlsson | 
It became apparent that “Natural News” had been removed from Google search results on February 22 [2017]. The website did ...
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Google delists Natural News, founder Mike Adams calls it ‘modern day book burning’

David Gorski | 
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s profile on Natural News founder Mike Adams. Also: FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams ...
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Did Google do the right thing in blocking Natural News from searches?

Steven Novella | 
[Editor’s note: Read the GLP’s profile on Natural News founder Mike Adams. Also: FBI turns up heat on Mike Adams ...
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Environmental activist hypocrisy? ‘No’ to GMO mosquito but ‘yes’ to irradiated screwworm fly

Richard Levine | 
Voters in Florida have approved a trial release of sterile, GM mosquitoes, which could reduce wild populations of disease-carrying ones ...
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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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