Jon Entine
What’s next for the anti-GM food movement?
The reflections and recriminations over the rejection of California’s Proposition 37 is in full swing. The measure was soundly defeated, ...
Trial lawyer heaven/natural food hell: The real-life consequences of Prop 37
The proponents of California Proposition 37 like to frame the vote as “right to know” issue. If only that were ...
Political correctness alert: Science literacy collapses when male/female genetics are debated
The difficulty in discussing what everyone intuitively knows—males and females are genetically programmed to respond differently, emotionally and intellectually, to ...
As California Prop 37 vote nears, media anti-Prop 37 bias emerges
The latest polls suggest a neck and neck race in the final days of the vote over the California genetically ...
Genetic ethics cops shout “designer babies” to abort life saving therapy
As we highlighted this week in Gene-ius, a dramatic, life-improving breakthrough is on the horizon in gene therapy. Researchers from ...
Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Pop health expert hosts anti-GM foods rant; Scientists respond
Dr. Mehmet Oz, a popular television celebrity, is a living example of why talk show health and science should never ...
Wild West of stem cells?
Stem cell therapy remains a brave new world with a spotty ethical and medical track record. Is that starting to ...
Malpractice on Dr. Oz: Pop health expert hosts anti-GM food rant; Scientists push back
The talk show health and science advice program hit a new low with Dr. Mehment Oz’s recent foray into the ...
Genoeconomics: Is our financial future in our chromosomes?
The GLP carried a provocative article this week outlining the latest twist in the emerging debate over genoeconomics—the nexus of ...
Scientists challenge organic backer Benbrook claims that GM crops increase pesticide spraying
The ongoing hullabaloo over the controversial Seralini study and questions about the safety of foods made from genetic modified crops ...
European food safety agency dismisses anti-GM maize study as flawed
The European Food Safety Authority has dismissed as flawed the controversial maize study by Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research team ...
Disturbing trend: Journalists hype fears when discussing human genetics
Genetics is scary. That’s the popular and entirely regrettable meme that dominates the narrative pushed by “progressive” and hard right ...
Séralini scandal week 3
The European Food Safety Authority has weighed in with its assessment of the maize studyby Gilles-Eric Séralini and his research ...
Does the Seralini corn study fiasco mark a turning point in the debate over GM food?
Are anti-biotech campaigners the leftwing version of climate change deniers? The science media are finally confronting the distortions perpetrated by ...
Race in medicine
Biopolitical Times, an online publication of the Center for Genetics and Society, rekindled the debate over race with a recent ...
Turning point from the botched French maize study: GM opponents look like climate deniers
The highly controversial study by French scientist Gilles-Eric Seralini, who as we noted in last week’s update has a long ...
Genetic screens—what’s the prognosis?
Sequencing the whole genome could provide a medical early warning on a previously unknown scale – but could it also ...
Health and safety of GM foods
The battle lines are firming in the debate between the mainstream science community and anti-GM activists about the safety and ...
Scientists savage study purportedly showing health dangers of Monsanto’s GM corn
Are GM foods harmful or nutritionally less beneficial when compared to conventional or organic foods? Scientists and regulators almost universally ...
Food labeling: Should environmentalists be pro-GM?
Half a century on from Rachel Carson’s seminal Silent Spring, debate rages over GM food labeling proposals ...
US court upholds federal funding for stem cell research
A federal appeals court has ruled that because no human embryos are destroyed in human embryonic stem cell research studies ...
Dysfunction at FDA threatens medical genetics industry
According to Jon Entine, after a series of stumbles and scandals, the Food and Drug Administration’s ability to oversee the ...
Genetic patent stunner: Myriad wins appeal, retains patent to BRCA tests
Snubbing a recommendation by the Supreme Court, a federal appeals court in Washington, in a 2:1 decision, upheld patents issued ...
The DNA Olympics — Jamaicans win sprinting ‘genetic lottery’ — and why we should all care
Jon Entine, author of Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We’re Afraid to Talk About It,” takes stock ...
The DNA Olympics- Jamaicans win sprinting ‘genetic lottery’- and why we should all care
Jon Entine takes stock of the DNA London Olympics–where, as usual, African-descended athletes swept the running events while whites and ...
FDA balances costs, patient safety in the biologics and personalized medicine revolution
Sometimes what you see is not all you get. Whether or not you support healthcare reform, the implementation of any ...
Personal Genomics: DNA helps Michelle Obama discover white ancestral roots, provides window into history of slavery
One of the remarkable innovations brought on by the DNA revolution is the ability to trace our personal and family ...
GM crops: Bring on the beneficial bugs
Chinese scientists have developed a new type of GM cotton engineered to make its own chemical protection against cotton pests ...
