Hank Campbell
Can psychology explain strident opposition by some to GMOs?
Strident opponents of crop biotechnology often claim that they can actually taste the difference between foods with genetically modified ingredients ...
National Resource Defense Council reverses course, acknowledges ‘factory farms’ do not overuse antibiotics
Advocacy groups often claim antibiotic use on 'factory farms' is soaring, hurting animals and even humans who are developing resistance ...
Beware of the biomedical industrial complex
Dr. Steve McKnight, President of the American Society For Biochemistry And Molecular Biology, has written an article that must be as ...
Technology-based agriculture in Africa could lower carbon pollution as farming expands
Hank Campbell, editor of Science 2.0, summarizes a new study that looks at land use and carbon footprint for agriculture in ...
Would you trust science or a yogic flying instructor with your food?
Professional forester and writer Norm Benson recently got a healthy dose of anti-science environmentalism, because he wrote an article endorsing a ...
California GMO labeling more about politicization of science
California State Sen. Noreen Evans wants any food that contains a genetically modified ingredient to have a special label declaring it - ...
Backdoor effort in Washington State to label, stigmatize GM salmon
House Bill 2143 says consumers have the right to know exactly what kind of fish they are getting thrown at ...
Are organic farmers over-using pesticides?
If you think you don't need to wash organic food before you eat it, I think you need a sanity ...
GMOs don’t hurt anyone, but opposing them does
How do you demonize scientists who added 3 genes to the 30,000 in rice in order to stop vitamin A ...
Anti-GMO European farmers ignore science in favor of superstition— or so they say
The following is an edited excerpt. Next month, the US and Europe would like to make some progress in tearing ...
California’s activist court rules that GM alfalfa is not a pest
Despite a track record spotted with anti-science activist positions, California's 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's determination ...
Will GM tech save coffee in the face of climate change?
The following is an excerpt. Some hysterical types are worried that because the industry has focused on one particular genetically ...
Eco-feminist says farmers who use GMOs are like rapists
Dr. Vandana Shiva, eco-feminist - whatever that means - philosopher and environmental activist does not like that Mark Lynas has changed ...
What Democrats can learn from reformed anti-GMO activist Mark Lynas
British environmentalist Mark Lynas was an early advocate against GMOs and, as he tells it, that meant he was an ...
Organic farmers condemn scientific method
If you don't believe in miracles like that organic produce is nutritionally superior or that you can taste GMOs in ...
Science 2.0 founder Hank Campbell responds to Neo-eugenics
Eugenics is attempting a 21st-century comeback. This has a lot of people scared. But it also has a lot of ...
Eugenics reconsidered
Eugenics was embraced and even promoted by progressives 100 years ago as a tool to make the world a better ...
GMOs won’t kill you, but that organic cupcake might
With the level of scrutiny that goes into genetic modifications versus the level of scrutiny in the organic food industry, ...
Eugenics 2012: Genetically engineering babies a moral obligation?
Both eugenics and social Darwinism had their moments in their sun, the optimistic goal of progressive techno-elites 100 years ago ...
Prop. 37 is about language, not concept, says GM supporter
People who are either clueless or shills for anti-science hysteria insist 'something is better than nothing' when it comes to ...
GMOs: Is food science growing up in Europe as America goes backwards?
For more than a decade, Europe has been as anti-science as can be imagined regarding genetically modified organisms — consumer ...
Anti-GM ‘ambulance chasers’ poised to enter ‘litigation heaven’ if Prop 37 passes
The American Medical Association agrees with the USDA and wrote two months ago, "There is no scientific justification for special ...
Sea creature called lancelet’s genetic mistake was a big win for humans
How did we arrive where we are? A dainty, quill-like sea creature called a lancelet provides the best evidence that ...
