Microplastics as a blueprint for health scares: How the "panic pipeline" of activists and academics partners with tort lawyers to manufacture chemical crises 

Microplastics as a blueprint for health scares: How the “panic pipeline” of activists and academics partners with tort lawyers to manufacture chemical crises 

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We’ve seen this fear-to-filing pipeline repeatedly in other contested controversies — most recently involving Tylenol and food additives — where ...
Viewpoint — Parts per billion, panic per bite: Healthy Florida First food hysteria and the war on modern agriculture

Viewpoint — Parts per billion, panic per bite: Healthy Florida First food hysteria and the war on modern agriculture

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The Make America Healthy Again coalition is at it again. An increasingly organized alliance of anti-vaccine activists, environmental litigators, and ...
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GLP spaces on X: Florida’s anti-glyphosate hysteria, dissected

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Panic erupted in Florida earlier this month after surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo held a press conference launching the state's ...
Chemophobia & Monetized Activism: Year in Review

Chemophobia & Monetized Activism: Year in Review

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Chemophobia — the reflexive fear that “chemicals” are inherently dangerous — stokes public anxiety about health and the environment. It ...
Viewpoint: Toxic politics and the culture wars—MIT’s ‘Undark’ caves to the MAHA—RFK, Jr.—predatort lobby

Viewpoint: Toxic politics and the culture wars—MIT’s ‘Undark’ caves to the MAHA—RFK, Jr.—predatort lobby

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Few issues reveal the corrosion of scientific reasoning in contemporary politics more clearly than the escalating fight over the alleged ...
Viewpoint—Toxic Narratives: The lucrative environmentalist–tort lawyer-media disinformation network driving drug and chemical scares

Viewpoint—Toxic Narratives: The lucrative environmentalist–tort lawyer-media disinformation network driving drug and chemical scares

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Is aspartame, used in thousands of products, from Diet Coke to Trident Gum to Log Cabin Sugar-Free Syrup, potentially cancer-causing? ...
Confronting the elephant in the human biodiversity room — the explosive issue of IQ

Confronting the elephant in the human biodiversity room — the explosive issue of IQ

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Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine two widely separated human groups living for thousands of years in different cultural and ecological ...
GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?

GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?

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The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...
GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote 'fat phobia' as some fat activists claim?

GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote ‘fat phobia’ as some fat activists claim?

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Obesity may have finally found its match in Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are helping many millions of people ...
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GLP spaces on X: ‘Designer baby’ revolution is coming. Are we ready?

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The day is rapidly approaching when many people will reproduce in the lab instead of the bedroom. Rather than pairing ...
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GLP spaces on X: Climate change and meat. Separating fact from hype

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Red meat is often scapegoated as a major villain in the popular story about our global efforts to prevent a ...
Viewpoint: Environmental activists' doomsday pessimism undermines agricultural biotechnology

Viewpoint: Environmental activists’ doomsday pessimism undermines agricultural biotechnology

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We live in a precautionary era in which technological breakthroughs poised to dominate the coming decades—from artificial intelligence and nanotechnology ...
With hopes fading about finding signs of life on the exoplanet K2-18b, scientists refocus on exploring the Moon and Mars, with providing food the largest challenge

With hopes fading about finding signs of life on the exoplanet K2-18b, scientists refocus on exploring the Moon and Mars, with providing food the largest challenge

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If we are serious about settling on other planets, we must grow food efficiently outside the safe environment of Earth ...
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GLP Spaces on X: Misinfo from the mainstream. Hypocritical pediatricians blast RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx stance while flouting consensus on GMOs

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You can't be a stalwart defender of scientific consensus, expertise and evidence-based medicine while taking contrarian positions on critical public ...
Video: Nuclear energy will destroy us? Global warming is an existential threat? Chemicals are massacring bees? Donate to the Green Industrial Complex!

Video: Nuclear energy will destroy us? Global warming is an existential threat? Chemicals are massacring bees? Donate to the Green Industrial Complex!

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In an eye-opening exchange, John Stossel sits down with Jon Entine, an award-winning journalist and Executive Director of the Genetic ...
GLP spaces on X: The 'Dirty Dozen,' dissected

GLP spaces on X: The ‘Dirty Dozen,’ dissected

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Each year the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) "Dirty Dozen" list ranks fruits and vegetables with the supposedly highest pesticide residues, ...
Is the American Academy of Pediatrics a stalwart defender of science and vaccines or a biotechnology science rejectionist? Sadly, it’s both

Is the American Academy of Pediatrics a stalwart defender of science and vaccines or a biotechnology science rejectionist? Sadly, it’s both

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In a rare but pointed rebuke of federal health policy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) filed a federal lawsuit ...
GLP Spaces on X: Will MAHA harm or help US health care?

GLP Spaces on X: Will MAHA harm or help US health care?

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The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement has big plans. "We are leading the charge to transform America’s approach to ...
GLP spaces on X: Ice cream sales boost drowning risk? Confusing correlation and causation yields strange – and often harmful – results

GLP spaces on X: Ice cream sales boost drowning risk? Confusing correlation and causation yields strange – and often harmful – results

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Ice cream sales and drownings increase significantly during summer. Although these two outcomes are closely connected, they probably occur in ...
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GLP spaces on X: Bioweapons on the farm? Bad agriculture policy could be as harmful as bioterrorism

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Earlier this month, two Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus that infects important food crops, ...
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GLP podcast: Activist—tort lawyer—media coalition targets medical equipment devices made with safe PFAS, risking millions of lives

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There's a growing panic over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most recently targeting fluoropolymers used in medical devices. The issue ...
Ketamine may become the next in-demand' antidepressant

GLP Spaces on X: Prescribing with precision—antidepressants without overmedicalization?

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There's a ditch on both sides of the road, as the old saying goes, when it comes to antidepressants. While ...
Video: John Stossel and GLP’s Jon Entine on the faux bee-apocalypse—How environmental groups and the media manufacture chemical scares

Video: John Stossel and GLP’s Jon Entine on the faux bee-apocalypse—How environmental groups and the media manufacture chemical scares

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Have you heard? The honey bees are dying! At least, that’s what the media and big money- hungry environmental groups ...
Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology

Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology

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Early last year, the Environmental Working Group and the Green Science Policy Institute launched an attack on a family of ...
GLP spaces on X: Pesticides cause Parkinson's? Another scandalous chemical claim misses the mark

GLP spaces on X: Pesticides cause Parkinson’s? Another scandalous chemical claim misses the mark

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Like so many other chemical scare stories, the claim that pesticides cause Parkinson’s disease (PD) has circulated online for years, ...
Weedkiller wars: What happens if Bayer abandons the herbicide glyphosate?

Weedkiller wars: What happens if Bayer abandons the herbicide glyphosate?

Are glyphosate's days numbered? It's the world's most popular weedkiller by far. Since its introduction in the 1970s, glyphosate has ...
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GLP spaces on X: Sugar ‘addiction’—sound science or public health mythology?

Can't say no to sugary soda? Does that pint of ice cream demand you eat every last spoonful of its ...
What impact will the global trade war and RFK, Jr.’s MAHA agenda have on European farming, health and the U.S. science brain drain?

What impact will the global trade war and RFK, Jr.’s MAHA agenda have on European farming, health and the U.S. science brain drain?

A global trade war jeopardizes agriculture worldwide.  EU’s Farm to Fork plan also faces criticism. Jon Entine, editor-in-chief of the ...