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Viewpoint: Green activists claim we can feed the world with organic-grown crops. Here’s a reality check
It is commonly believed that organic farmers do not use pesticides and that organic food is therefore safer to consume ...
Viewpoint: Decarbonizing farming — Comparing regenerative agriculture with ‘sustainable intensification’
An interesting report crossed my desk the other day. Entitled ‘Scaling Regenerative Agriculture: An Action Plan’, it came from the Sustainable Markets ...
Viewpoint: Without glyphosate, critical wetlands and wildlife could be strangled by invasive plants
Almost two years ago, I wrote an article hoping “we are finally at a place when a few influential scientists with ...
Is biology sexist and racist? The escalating battle over ‘inclusive terminology’ and the language of science
Science, biology in particular, is rife with racism and other egregious forms of prejudice and bigotry. That’s the belief now ...
Faith genes? Can DNA predispose us to religion and spirituality?
Do our genes predispose us to follow a religion? I searched Google Scholar for reports on the inheritance of religiosity ...
French Academy of Agriculture scientist challenges government to ‘follow the science’ and revise its regulatory opposition to genetically edited crops
While a debate is in progress at the European level about the genetically edited products, it is time for the ...
Viewpoint: No, your water bottle does not pose a danger to your health — Here’s how HuffPost misrepresents the science on safe plasticizers
We’ve often heard that economics is the “dismal science.” That phrase also seems like an apt description of claims used ...
Viewpoint: Before you blindly endorse a ‘meatless future’ to limit greenhouse gasses and protect the environment, read this
Many activists and reporters claim we should eat little or no meat to prevent climate change. But instead of presenting ...
Beepocalypse Myth Handbook: Assessing claims of pollinator collapse
After a decade of debate, the causes of the mid-2000s spike in bee deaths is coming into focus. Culprits are ...
Viewpoint: The Guardian cites ‘shocking’ statistics from environmental lobby groups claiming increasing dangers from pesticide poisonings. Here’s why they are wrong, yet again
The evidence is quite clear at this point. Properly used, pesticides do not pose a serious risk to human health ...
Using cost-benefit analysis: Crop biotechnology offers sizable yield and sustainability benefits when compared to non-GM farming
What are the costs of not adopting the best food producing technologies? The ability to quantify a choice that is ...
Viewpoint: Why leftist GMO rejectionists should take notice of Cuba’s emergence as biomedicine and ag-biotech innovator
This past Christmas was not the best of times for Cubans. It was difficult to find food such as chicken, ...
A ‘New Green Revolution’ is brewing — just in time, as the world population breaks past the 8 billion mark
You can mark the date on your calendar: On November 15, 2022, a mother will give birth to a baby ...
Viewpoint: ‘The Dawn of Everything’ blurs lines between scientific research and political advocacy
In 1885, Thomas Henry Huxley delivered a speech in which he famously declared that science “commits suicide the moment it ...
Viewpoint: Is the FDA following ‘sound science’ in green lighting new Alzheimer’s drug Aduhelm?
The prominent economist Milton Friedman said that in order to understand the motivation of a person or organization, you must look ...
Part II: Can Uganda and Kenya become Africa’s hub for crop biotechnology innovation?
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
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
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?
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?
On average, happiness declines as we approach middle age, bottoming out in our 40s but then picking back up as ...
‘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 ...
Viewpoint: ‘Science doesn’t work through ad hominem attacks’ — UC Davis’ Alison Van Eenennaam challenges NY Times’ unsupported exposé of fellow scientist researching ways to reduce carbon footprint of cattle industry
Look I get it. The New York Times (NYT) does not like GMOs, industrial agriculture, factory farming or meat consumption ...
Here is when and how humans attained ‘behavioral modernity’
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
The study of present-day species has delivered a clear verdict on humanity’s place in the living world: right alongside chimpanzees ...
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?
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
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?
For four decades, scientists world-over have self-imposed a moratorium on doing laboratory research on human embryos 14 days post-fertilization. It's ...
