Henry Miller
Does DNA ‘determine’ our health? The way you live your life can significantly modulate the effects of our genetic endowment
The study of genetics has always been an attempt to understand our biologically determined fate. Many of us know of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Killer petunias’? The shameful story of the USDA’s ‘unscientific, innovation-stifling’ process for regulating genetically-engineered flowers
Now that vivid orange, red, and purple genetically engineered petunias are approved for distribution to plant nurseries, it’s time for ...
Viewpoint: Farm-to-Fork plan suggests Europe wants sustainable farming. So why do EU politicians ignore the ‘green’ benefits of GM crops?
There is ongoing disagreement between the popularly elected European Parliament and the executives in the European Commission over approvals of ...
Is there a difference between a gene-edited organism and a ‘GMO’? The question has important implications for regulation
The controversy over genetically engineered organisms (sometimes called “genetically modified organisms,” or “GMOs”) is genuine, not faux — but only ...
Book review: Jennifer Thompson’s ‘GM Crops and the Global Divide’ addresses Europe’s neo-colonialist attempt to intimidate Africa into rejecting crop biotechnology
Jennifer Thomson’s excellent new book, “GM Crops and the Global Divide” (CSIRO Publishing, 2020), is a highly informed, lucid, and ...
Viewpoint: Earth Day needs a sustainability do-over. It’s devolved into environmental Cassandras prophesying apocalypse, dishing antitechnology dirt and proselytizing for a ‘woke’ agenda
Sadly, today’s Earth Day shares something with the current political environment: It reeks of divisiveness. Earth Day has devolved into ...
Viewpoint: FDA’s ‘pause’ on distribution of the J&J vaccine was overly risk-averse
Citing “an abundance of caution,” the FDA on [April 13] recommended a “pause” in the administration of Johnson & Johnson’s ...
Viewpoint: ‘War against the West’: Russia powers global vaccine rejectionist movement even as it inoculates its own citizens
Anyone active on social media is aware that there is a great deal of passionate but ill-founded opposition to vaccination, ...
Viewpoint: Why is National Geographic embracing simplistic activist narratives on nuanced pesticide controversies?
For more than a century, National Geographic has produced a high-quality magazine that is well-grounded in science, history and culture ...
Viewpoint: Skeptical of pesticides? That’s because you don’t know what life is like without them
Our greatest public health challenge isn’t chemicals -- it's ignorance and fear-mongering about them ...
Viewpoint: FDA’s overregulation of gene-edited animals hinders innovation and harms consumers
When the FDA wants to, it can get desperately needed products expeditiously to those who need them. But for some ...
Viewpoint: Agroecology advocates threaten California agriculture with ‘primitive’ farming practices
To respond to crises, agriculture must be as efficient, innovative and resilient as possible. Even in California, whose agriculture is ...
There is a lot of misinformation about COVID, the available vaccines and their effectiveness. These 7 insights will help clear that up.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been many thousands of articles and commentaries published on almost every ...
Machine learning helps battle life-threatening diseases. Could it end world hunger, too?
When was the last time you read an online magazine or newspaper, only to find yourself bombarded with shopping ads ...
Viewpoint: COVID won’t subside in the US until 70% of us are immune. That means: ‘Get a vaccine’
The United States is one of the most seriously COVID-19-impacted countries, faring the worst among the ten most-affected countries worldwide, as ...
High-tech medical and dental innovation garner the headlines but the most impactful practices are mostly lower tech and prevention-focused
Much of the progress in medicine during the past half-century has involved expensive, high-tech diagnostic tests and therapies. The trend in ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO groups exploit COVID to block access to biotech crops
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to take its toll on our lives in so many ways, including diminished social contact, disrupted ...
Viewpoint: This is no time to cut corners on regulation of COVID-19 vaccines
With COVID-19 cases, the percentage of positive test results, and hospitalizations reaching record levels in much of the nation, the ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s pro-organic Farm to Fork policy will ‘cripple’ an already inefficient agriculture system
The EU’s “Farm to fork (F2F) strategy” announced in May, is “the heart of the “Green Deal,” a kind of ...
Why a coronavirus vaccine ‘October Surprise’ could be an October disaster
There is widespread anticipation of the availability of vaccines to prevent COVID-19 infections so that Americans can get their lives ...
Viewpoint: Media focus on COVID-19 deaths ignores lasting impact of ‘calamitous pandemic’
The media regularly reports about deaths from COVID-19 as if that is the whole story. But it's not. COVID-19 doesn't ...
COVID-19 is causing silent epidemics — societal and medical crises
As the nation emerges in fits and starts from the lockdowns spurred by the first wave of COVID-19 illnesses, we’re ...
Viewpoint: How organic farming exploits consumer demand for ‘authenticity’
Seeking 'authenticity' is fine -- unless it deprives you of something beneficial ...
Viewpoint: News or propaganda? UK newspaper the Guardian paid over $800k to publish anti-farming ‘investigation’
Publishing propaganda as news is dishonest and lets readers down. Dr. Henry Miller, the founding director of the FDA's Office ...
Viewpoint: Believing that we’ll have a COVID-19 vaccine anytime soon is naive
The odds that we will have a safe, effective vaccine by January are vanishingly small ...
Viewpoint: ‘We can’t afford miscommunication or bureaucratic foot-dragging’ in the quest for a coronavirus vaccine
A draft government report forecasts the possibility of about 200,000 new cases of COVID-19 each day by the end of ...
Viewpoint: Journalism or propaganda? Animal rights group pays UK newspaper The Guardian to bash agriculture
We grew up in an era when the mainstream media reported the news straightforwardly, but now much of it is ...
Viewpoint: How ‘fraudulent, poorly designed, and biased’ studies sow doubt about GMO, gene-edited crops
Research in crop science in recent years has advanced at an unprecedented rate, and the intermingling of old and new ...
