Hank Campbell
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Viewpoint: Biologist Tyrone Hayes, author of suspect atrazine weed killer study, nominated for EPA’s Scientific Advisory Panel
Comments opened on the recent EPA nominations to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) .... The name at number ...
Viewpoint: Eat organic apples to improve gut health? There’s reason for skepticism
Yogurt marketing and supplement claims aside, there is no evidence that your body is impacted by probiotics unless you suffered ...
Blight-tolerant American chestnut tree: Latest biotech solution to nature’s assault on valued species
A blight-tolerant American chestnut tree is the latest example of what the science community has begun to call a GRO—a ...
As IARC glyphosate-cancer finding draws more scrutiny, WHO rebukes agency for ‘undermining’ other UN chemical safety assessments
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was once a serious, revered organization with the somber task of tackling ...
Viewpoint: Mainstream Arnold Foundation now major funder of fringe anti-GMO USRTK while Organic Consumers Association cuts support
US Right To Know may now be too poisonous even for the Organic Consumers Association ...
Viewpoint: A closer look at Friends of the Earth’s study that found ‘toxic’ pesticides in food
Friends of the Earth....teased us in a media kit with the promise of a science study about finding various weedkillers ...
Are Smirnoff’s GMO-free vodka labels illegal?
Smirnoff, a vodka brand, has tried to place itself under a health halo by claiming it is not only gluten-free but ...
Viewpoint: Organic food companies count on ‘consumer ignorance’ to sell their products
Consumers today have more food choices available than at any other time in human history .... but the terms and ...
Viewpoint: Catering to anti-GMO activists is a losing business strategy
A few years ago .... Brent Smart, CEO of advertising giant Saatchi & Saatchi's, headquartered in New York, who had managed their ...
Viewpoint: Organic industry allies ignore expert witness’s hypocrisy in Roundup weed killer trial
Chris Portier, Ph.D., an activist statistician who pushed to get the common herbicide ingredient glyphosate listed as a "hazard" for ...
Viewpoint: Will France stand up for science in battle over glyphosate safety?
In 2017, French President Emmanuel Macron held fast with his environmental allies against science and declared they would ban the herbicide ...
Viewpoint: With new IARC director Elisabete Weiderpass, ‘the status quo has won’
With the term of controversial International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) Director Christopher Wild thankfully at an end, speculation about ...
Viewpoint: JAMA falls short in ‘correction’ of research letter reporting glyphosate in urine
In October 2017, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) added to the weight of evidence they care more about media ...
Viewpoint: Self-diagnosed celiac disease is just the latest diet obsession of wealthy white people
There are people who are allergic to gluten. But the recent surge in self-diagnosed Celiac sufferers is little more than ...
Biopesticides: Creating a mosquito-fighting bacteria wasn’t easy—or fast
[A]fter decades of international scientific effort, a new mosquito biopesticide (a pesticide that uses natural bacteria) has been approved. And it only took a year and ...
Viewpoint: Anti-pesticide activists exploit chemical testing technology to scare public
One religious group forecast an apocalypse a few weeks ago. They used the Bible as their source. More recently, a newer religion ...
40 percent of cancer cases linked to lifestyle, obesity; minor impact of chemicals
Decades ago, when activist groups were promoting every trace chemical they could find as a carcinogen, the American Council on ...
Junk science: Journal paid to publish ‘food industry conspiracy’ paper—funded by organic industry
Gary Ruskin, the chief junkyard dog of US Right To Know, an industry front group created by Organic Consumers Association ...
Viewpoint: Time for reassessment of ‘privileged’ organic industry as national program head steps down
[Editor’s Note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] For the last 17 years, the United ...
GMO controversies of 40 years ago are today’s science success stories
GMOs were a worry 40 years ago? Yes, though GMO insulin today is regarded as a gigantic success story for ...
Viewpoint: Netflix promotes anti-GMO films, suppresses legitimate science
Netflix has declined to carry the agriculture documentary called "Food Evolution", for reasons they refused to specify. ... Is the ...
Viewpoint: California activists ‘gamed system’ to get glyphosate herbicide labeled as carcinogen
Environmental activists found the perfect targets to help them defame the popular herbicide glyphosate — widely-accepted as safe — in ...
Opinion: Bloomberg journalists botch another anti-Monsanto article
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] Bloomberg Businessweek has written another anti-Monsanto article.... It's ...
Food Evolution’s NYC premiere proof science and reason can win over GMO skeptics
Change is hard. But a skeptical New York City crowd's reaction to Food Evolution, a new documentary about GMOs, provides ...
Will new government guidelines for GE crops spur innovation—or do they not go far enough?
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] Since 2014, China has spent $4 billion ...
Will Trump continue Obama-era ‘streamlining’ of crop and animal biotech and gene-editing regulations?
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] President Donald Trump spent a great deal ...
10 ways Whole Foods misleads consumers about organic food and farming
[Editor's note: Hank Campbell is president of the American Council on Science and Health.] I was at a meeting with ...
French men getting less sexy? As sperm counts slide, activists point to pesticides, scientists to vegetables
Studies have found vegetarians have lower sperm count and that French men in the 1980s had higher sperm counts than ...
