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Podcast: Environmental Working Group’s ‘Dirty Dozen’ list is an unscientific scam

Steve Savage | 
Scammers are having a moment. On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant scientist Steve Savage tackles scams within ...
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‘Sticky’ pesticides could protect crops, cut harmful agricultural runoff

Erik Stokstad | 
A problem with many pesticides is that rain washes them off plants and into the soil and groundwater. Now, researchers ...
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Some wild bee populations declining, but ‘scarce data’ hamper impact and research efforts

Michael Casey | 
More than a dozen wild bee species critical to pollinating everything from blueberries to apples in New England are on ...
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Domestication ‘reboot’: CRISPR gene editing turns wild plants into desirable fruits and vegetables

Jonathon Keats | 
Early in the 20th century, a strange tomato plant took root in the northeastern United States. Because of a random ...
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Podcast: 7 modern pest control tools that protect our food from hungry bugs

Steve Savage | 
Need to manage a pest problem? Luckily, there are many ways to do that! From physical to biological and chemical ...
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High organic food consumption linked to ‘strong nutritional, environmental benefits,’ study claims

Julia Baudry | 
The aim of this study, based on observational data, was to compare some sustainability features of diets from consumers with ...
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Viewpoint: Do pesticides boost autism risk? New report says ‘possibly’ but correlations are ‘weak’ and ‘misleading’

Recently a study titled “Prenatal and infant exposure to ambient pesticides and autism spectrum disorder in children: population based case-control study” ...
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Podcast: Recycling 190 million pounds of pesticide containers to promote sustainable agriculture

Mark Hudson, Steve Savage | 
Ag recycles! On this episode of Biotech Facts and Fallacies, plant scientist Steve Savage delves into the world of agricultural ...
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Pesticides increase cancer risk for farmers? Rethinking the ‘irrefutable consensus’

Philippe Stoop | 
Though it may seem otherwise, the term 'irrefutable' is not at all flattering ...
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Avoiding fruits and vegetables because of pesticides is bad for your health, dietitian warns

Sheah Rarback | 
I wonder why during National Nutrition Month, when we dietitians are encouraging everyone to increase nutritious foods such as vegetables and fruits, ...
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Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Kayleen Schreiber | 
A jury decision, while significant, is not a substitute for scientific research ...
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Latest ecological fake news scare: Like the ‘honeybee armageddon’ narrative, pesticide-driven ‘insect-pocalypse’ claim is collapsing

Jon Entine | 
The 'bee-pocalypse' was an exaggerated fiction grounded in genuine concerns. The 'insect-pocalypse' is more of the same ...
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Whispering down the ‘fake news’ lane targeting conventional farming: No, Lou Gehrig’s Disease not caused by pesticides spread by chemical-spraying airplanes

Kevin Folta | 
Is it sensationalism to get traffic, lazy reporting -- or intentional misrepresentation of facts? ...
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Why neonicotinoid pesticides don’t deserve a ‘deadly to bees’ label

Andrew Porterfield | 
While some activists blame the popular class of pesticides for bee deaths, research suggests there are many contributing factors. And ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s why we don’t have to worry about a world without insects

Robert Walker | 
Recent headlines about the coming collapse of the insect world are another case of extrapolation from inadequate data ...
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20 plus years of data show Bt insect-resistant crops to be ‘powerful,’ sustainable pest management tools

Jörg Romeis | 
Genetically engineered (GE) crops producing insecticidal proteins from Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) (mainly Cry proteins) have become a major control tactic for a ...
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Viewpoint: A closer look at Friends of the Earth’s study that found ‘toxic’ pesticides in food

Hank Campbell | 
Friends of the Earth....teased us in a media kit with the promise of a science study about finding various weedkillers ...
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Talking Biotech: Recruiting bees as soldiers in the war on plant pests

Kevin Folta | 
The company Bee Vectoring Technologies uses bees to control deadly plant pests ...
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New study hyping health benefits of organic food is more marketing than science, biologist argues

Alex Berezow | 
How do you know when a "study" isn't really a study? When the people who performed it wrote up a ...
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Could spider venom replace some synthetic pesticides on the farm?

A major new project will see the use of spiders’ natural toxins to offer a more sustainable approach to crop ...
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Fighting weeds: Can we reduce, or even eliminate, herbicides by utilizing robotics and AI?

Marc Brazeau | 
A quick look at some of the technical strategies being pursued in farming robotics and AI ...
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After successful demonization campaign against herbicide glyphosate, anti-GMO activists and environmental groups take aim at atrazine

Andrew Porterfield | 
In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued an extensive report that reviewed decades of science and declared that a ...
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Sustainability failure: Anti-GMO France’s 10-year effort to slash pesticide use boosted spraying by 12%

Erik Stokstad | 
In 2008, the French government announced a dramatic shift in agricultural policy, calling for pesticide use to be slashed in ...
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Anti-GMO activists can’t be allowed to ‘have their way,’ African farmer warns

Bradford Owusu | 
When I was a little boy, what I feared most were the masqueraders .... human beings wearing masks or ...
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Will glyphosate-cancer lawsuits block development of safer pesticides?

Amanda Zaluckyj | 
Dewayne Johnson sued Monsanto because he claimed the Round-Up he sprayed as part of his job as a schoolyard groundskeeper ...
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New farm bill would stop cities from banning glyphosate and other pesticides

Tiffany Stecker | 
House lawmakers are seeking to halt .... local ordinances to ban or restrict pesticides that opponents say conflict with state ...
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Podcast: Why glyphosate-cancer news stories could push consumers away from healthy foods

Melissa Dobbins, Teresa Thorne | 
On [this] episode, we explore one of the most important topics in nutrition: produce and pesticides. Health experts, the government ...
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