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Could pumpkin pie be on the “86 list” this Thanksgiving?
If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant, you’ve probably heard the term “86” which basically means that they’re out of ...
Part 1: The organic food industry’s rejection of modernity
The rapid advance of technology has enriched our daily lives. We can take pictures and videos with a cell phone, ...
Mexico’s corn production needs to increase significantly — is this possible with agroecology, and without GMOs?
Through its Decree banning imports of GM corn and restricting trade with the United States and other countries, the administration ...
Viewpoint: Advocacy or orthodoxy? How the neurodiversity movement that has sought to normalize autism is changing, and not always for the best
It is no longer fashionable to talk about autism spectrum disorders among certain quarters of the ASD community without reference ...
Part 1: How much responsibility for COVID vaccine rejectionism rests with the progressive Left?
Twenty-five years ago, in 1996, physicist Alan Sokal pulled off a now notorious academic hoax by submitting a spoof article, ...
Viewpoint: ‘It’s time to listen to what the data say’ — Agricultural biotechnology industry issues joint statement challenging Europe’s proposed Farm to Fork Green Deal
Food chain actors all agree with the main principles set out in the Farm to Fork strategy and are fully ...
Viewpoint: After years of misreporting, NY Times embraces safety and efficacy of GMOs — but still stumbles on nuance and key facts
Genetically engineered (GE) crops, which have been commercially available for 25 years, have been widely misunderstood and under-appreciated, especially by ...
Viewpoint: Will “cancel culture” claim Darwin?
Given the scientific and political luminaries who have fallen under the axe, it’s not beyond possibility that Charles Darwin himself ...
Japan ushers in CRISPR gene edited food revolution as hypertension-reducing tomato now on sale
In the coming years, a genetically engineered tomato may be your first line of defense against high blood pressure. Biotech ...
Dismissing sizable sustainability benefits, organic industry petitions USDA to block hydroponics from being classified as organic
Organic food producers, which eschew synthetic pesticides for "natural" ones, regularly market their products as more sustainable than conventional offerings, but they're not ...
Infographic: Does consuming micro-traces of glyphosate (aka Roundup) in our food cause cancer? All 20 global regulatory and chemical oversight agencies say ‘no’, while anti-biotech activists spin the data
Glyphosate weedkiller, once marketed exclusively under the name RoundUp by its originator Monsanto, is the world's most popular herbicide, used ...
Viewpoint: Anti-science GMO rejectionists won’t disappear anytime soon but the past year has demonstrated their increasing irrelevance
Just six years ago, America was engaged in a ferocious debate over GMO food labels; March Against Monsanto could assemble thousands ...
How can we protect wild salmon from interbreeding with farmed salmon? CRISPR gene editing is a solution
Upon an otherwise unruly landscape of choppy sea and craggy peaks, the salmon farms that dot many of Norway’s remote ...
Viewpoint: ‘Predatorts’ — How activist nonprofits create fear and seed science doubt, generate lawsuits, and distort public policy
Imagine you are a US tort lawyer wanting to extract as much honey from the pot as possible. What do ...
10% — not 75% — of crop yield is pollinator-dependent: Our World in Data charts raise doubts about claims that global food supply is imminently endangered by ‘disappearing’ insects
It’s unfortunate that the wildlife we care least about provides us with the most functional value. We favor the bears ...
Taboo: Why has Africa emerged as the global coronavirus ‘Cold Spot’ — and why are we afraid to talk about it?
The first COVID-19 case in Africa was confirmed on February 14th, 2020, in Egypt. The first in sub-Saharan Africa appeared ...
Viewpoint: Creationism overruns archaeology? Promotion of indigenous origin stories challenges scientific consensus
In April, one of us—Elizabeth Weiss—gave a talk, titled Has Creationism Crept Back into Archaeology?, at the 86th Annual Meeting of ...
Viewpoint: This 11,000 page European Union report should end the debate over the ‘dangers’ posed by glyphosate weedkiller
Glyphosate is a weed killer widely used by the agricultural industry and also available for consumer use in products like ...
How genetic engineering will help make fishing more sustainable
After an arduous process that took more than 25 years from time of conception to commercialization, the GMO salmon was ...
Don’t believe the hype: Organic produce is not healthier than conventionally-grown fruit and vegetables
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture starting to implement its organic food rules. They allow ...
Viewpoint: ‘The European Green Deal has been captured by chemophobic activists with no understanding of science’. Here’s how the EU can put sustainability ahead of ideology
After seeing rampant chemophobia and fear-mongering influence the REACH process in the mid-2000s, I set up a satirical blog called ...
Viewpoint: Why the Wuhan lab escape theory explaining the origin of the global pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach ...
Viewpoint: Mexico’s ‘cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face’ glyphosate ban — Why prohibiting one of the safest herbicides in the world will dramatically increase the use of a demonstrably more harmful alternative
It appears that the proposed Mexican government plan to ban all genetically engineered corn and the widely used herbicide glyphosate ...
‘Flawed process leads to flawed science’: Why the WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer claims glyphosate causes cancer
The recent excellent article by Josh Bloom, “NYC Pol Uses Phony Cancer Scare & ‘Children’ to Ban Glyphosate in Parks,” ...
From lab bench to dinner table — How do you create cell-based prime rib eye?
In March of 2021, researchers at the University of Tokyo announced that they had successfully grown steak in a lab ...
Viewpoint: COVID lockdown denialists are immune to the hard realities of a relentless virus
I am no lockdown junkie. I’d like to get that straight before I explain why the most extreme variant of ...
Viewpoint — ‘Selective skepticism’ and media hypocrisy: Why are liberal news sites vigilant in challenging COVID misinformation but give anti-biotechnology and chemical scare-mongers a free pass?
In recent months, the mainstream press has been on a crusade against COVID vaccine skepticism, tenaciously promoting science-based medicine and ...
