Viewpoint: Is the FDA following ‘sound science’ in green lighting new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm?

Viewpoint: Is the FDA following ‘sound science’ in green lighting new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm?

Henry Miller | 
The prominent economist Milton Friedman said that in order to understand the motivation of a person or organization, you must look ...
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Part II: Can Uganda and Kenya become Africa’s hub for crop biotechnology innovation?

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya | 
Erostus Nsubuga, who sits on the Presidential Roundtable for Investments in Agriculture, and serves on several well-placed boards of state-enterprises ...
Part II: Viewpoint — Kenyan protestors aggressively promote disinformation in campaign to scuttle GM crop imports and cultivation

Part II: Viewpoint — Kenyan protestors aggressively promote disinformation in campaign to scuttle GM crop imports and cultivation

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya | 
Are anti-biotechnology advocacy groups honestly engaging in science in their attacks on genetically modified crops? ...
Part I: Intelligence, disease, prejudice — and Jewish skeletal remains in a Norwich well

Part I: Intelligence, disease, prejudice — and Jewish skeletal remains in a Norwich well

Patrick Whittle | 
Who would have thought that bones found at the bottom of a medieval well in England could stir up such ...
Children aren't biologically programmed to be picky eaters, so why do we feed them sugary and 'ultra-processed' foods?

Children aren’t biologically programmed to be picky eaters, so why do we feed them sugary and ‘ultra-processed’ foods?

Tina Moffat | 
In countries such as the U.S. and Canada, the term “children’s food” conjures images of milk, sugary cereals, yogurt tubes, and ...
'U-shaped happiness curve': Do people really get more content with life as they age?

‘U-shaped happiness curve’: Do people really get more content with life as they age?

David Bartram | 
On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as ...
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‘Dead first’: Why American men are men more likely than Canadians, Australians and Brits to die prematurely

Whether it’s stubbornness, an aversion to appearing weak or vulnerable, or other reasons, men go to the doctor far less ...
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Here is when and how humans attained ‘behavioral modernity’

Nick Longrich | 
For 200,000-300,000 years after Homo sapiens first appeared, tools and artefacts remained surprisingly simple, little better than Neanderthal technology, and simpler than ...
Oldest known human skeleton suggests humans began walking on two feet 7 million years ago in break from our ape-like common ancestors

Oldest known human skeleton suggests humans began walking on two feet 7 million years ago in break from our ape-like common ancestors

The study of present-day species has delivered a clear verdict on humanity’s place in the living world: right alongside chimpanzees ...
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Viewpoint: King Charles’ resistance to crop biotechnology has been a royal pain. Can the former ‘Dunce of Wales’ shuck organic propaganda and embrace sustainable agriculture?

Henry Miller | 
King Charles III has repeatedly demonstrated some of the pitfalls of the inbreeding that has plagued the royal families of ...
Here is the story behind Svante Pääbo’s Nobel Prize for sequencing the genome of Neandertals and discovering another ancestor, the Denisovans

Here is the story behind Svante Pääbo’s Nobel Prize for sequencing the genome of Neandertals and discovering another ancestor, the Denisovans

Ricki Lewis | 
I was thrilled to learn of the awarding of the 2022 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine to Svante Pääbo, ...
Part I: 14 days or 28 — What should the standard be for research on lab-grown human embryos? 

Part I: 14 days or 28 — What should the standard be for research on lab-grown human embryos? 

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
For four decades, scientists world-over have self-imposed a moratorium on doing laboratory research on human embryos 14 days post-fertilization. It's ...
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Differentiating between COVID misinformation and evolving science

Chuck Dinerstein | 
With the announcement by Dr. Rochelle Walensky, the Director of the Centers for Disease Control, that “The CDC has to ...
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‘You have to prove the dose’: Why courts are rejecting payouts for exposure to alleged carcinogens like talc or actual ones like asbestos

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
Personal injury lawyers are either revered or reviled. Sometimes purveyors of junk science, they often prey on a vulnerable and ...
Viewpoint: The ’natural food’ sham — ‘Effective communication on the ethics of science may be hindered by appeals to naturalness'

Viewpoint: The ’natural food’ sham — ‘Effective communication on the ethics of science may be hindered by appeals to naturalness’

Matt Ridley | 
What could be more natural than organically grown Golden Promise barley, used to make craft-brewed pale ale? ...
Viewpoint: Does ‘Big Ag’ promote GMOs as a backhanded way to peddle pesticides? Activist claims don’t withstand scrutiny

Viewpoint: Does ‘Big Ag’ promote GMOs as a backhanded way to peddle pesticides? Activist claims don’t withstand scrutiny

Cameron English | 
For more than two decades, anti-GMO groups have resorted to the same dishonest claims about the risks of genetically engineered ...
A legal defense grounded in genetics: Is DNA testing the magic wand to winning (or losing) a negligence case?

A legal defense grounded in genetics: Is DNA testing the magic wand to winning (or losing) a negligence case?

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
Among the four elements required to establish liability for the tort of negligence is causation. In addition to proving that ...
Europe’s climate change-induced droughts endanger food security, spur calls to embrace biotechnology and other sustainable measures

Europe’s climate change-induced droughts endanger food security, spur calls to embrace biotechnology and other sustainable measures

The scientific community has preferably dealt with studying drought in regions or countries ( Sahel , Horn of Africa, South Africa, Australia...) ...
Could celibacy have an evolutionary advantage?

Could celibacy have an evolutionary advantage?

Alberto Micheletti, Ruth Mace | 
Many religious institutions around the world require celibacy. The practice has led anthropologists to wonder how celibacy could have evolved ...
Why China’s embrace of GMO corn and soy will change policies in South Africa and the rest of the continent

Why China’s embrace of GMO corn and soy will change policies in South Africa and the rest of the continent

Wandile Sihlobo | 
Chinese National Crop Variety Approval Committee released two standards that clear the path for cultivating genetically modified (GM) crops in the country ...
Whole Foods Magazine joins the ‘let’s peddle anti-GMO disinformation scare stories’ movement

Whole Foods Magazine joins the ‘let’s peddle anti-GMO disinformation scare stories’ movement

Cameron English | 
Whole Foods Magazine published a June story titled GMOs: Basics to Know. “Although GMOs have been deemed safe,” the author alleged, ...
DNA and gene editing are the real stars of the new Jurassic Park movie

DNA and gene editing are the real stars of the new Jurassic Park movie

Ricki Lewis | 
In Jurassic World: Dominion, the science is mostly accurate, the bioethics message obvious, and the plot adheres to Isaac Asimov’s ...
Transitioning transgender teenagers are not new. This Dutch clinic has been helping them for decades

Transitioning transgender teenagers are not new. This Dutch clinic has been helping them for decades

Frieda Klotz | 
Relationships between and physicians last a long time at Amsterdam’s Center of Expertise on Gender Dysphoria. Some of today’s adult ...
Long COVID’s biological puzzle: Untangling the difference between true disease and pandemic disruptions

Long COVID’s biological puzzle: Untangling the difference between true disease and pandemic disruptions

Ross Pomeroy | 
Soon after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced in 2020, rapidly sending countries around the world into panicked lockdowns, a new specter arose: "Long ...
Fertility fraud: Direct-to-consumer DNA tests show thousands of women are illegally impregnated every year by deviant doctors. The laws need updating

Fertility fraud: Direct-to-consumer DNA tests show thousands of women are illegally impregnated every year by deviant doctors. The laws need updating

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer | 
To thousands of women gifted with childbirth through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and their children - the practice can only ...
‘Hybrid of Satan’: PolitiFact debunks vaccine rejectionist film ‘Watch the Water’ claiming COVID vaccine is snake venom

‘Hybrid of Satan’: PolitiFact debunks vaccine rejectionist film ‘Watch the Water’ claiming COVID vaccine is snake venom

A new anti-vaccine documentary ridiculously claims that the coronavirus is not a virus, but a synthetic version of snake venom that ...
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