Selective Pressure, Selective Silence

Selective Pressure, Selective Silence

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Human evolution, particularly of the brain, ended a long time ago—at least that is what many educated people, wary of ...
Science Disinformation Gap: The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship

Science Disinformation Gap: The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship

Genetic Literacy Project |
Every day, the same post appears in two places at once. A Facebook user in Munich sees it with a ...
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 

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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?

Genetic Literacy Project |
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?

Genetic Literacy Project |
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?

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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!

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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?

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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?

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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

Genetic Literacy Project |
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 ...