Marcel Kuntz
Glyphosate disinformation: French activists use fake ‘glyphosate detection tests’ in campaign to turn public against safe weedkiller
Opponents needed a tool that would strike public opinion. Monica Kruger, an activist and director of the private veterinary testing ...
Viewpoint: How ‘bad faith’ journalists corrupt our understanding of crop biotechnology and undermine science
In a column published in the newspaper Le Monde, the journalist Stéphane Foucart, explains that GMO technology has not significantly ...
‘Are we finally going to overcome the GMO dispute?’: New book explains why scientific proof is not enough to change anti-biotech minds
[European Scientist:] Are we finally going to overcome the GMO dispute? [Marcel Kuntz:] As Claude Debru points out in [the ...
Viewpoint: While most of Europe remains in thrall of crop biotechnology rejectionism, sustainability promises of CRISPR gene editing may soon lead to ‘political deconstruction’
The European Commission recently published a report on "new genomic techniques," including CRISPR gene editing, which was expected to have major ...
Viewpoint: Can European Commission reverse 20 years of backward, precautionary regulation of crop biotechnology? CRISPR presents an opportunity
The expected report of the European Commission on “new genomic techniques” was published as announced before the end of April ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate and cancer—How ideology and bad science turned a safe herbicide into a carcinogen
Glyphosate has long been considered as an herbicide with no unacceptable health risk. In 2015, its classification as "probably carcinogenic" ...
Viewpoint: How postmodernism birthed Europe’s anti-GMO movement
Tounderstand why Europe is restricting the use of some technologies, while the United States are not following the same path ...
Viewpoint: Rethinking ‘critical race theory’ — What happens when broad racialist viewpoints ‘invade’ science?
“Schœlcher n’est pas notre sauveur,” declared protestors who toppled statues on the French territory of Martinique earlier this year—“Schœlcher is not our savior.” The reference ...
How anti-GMO research is manufactured: Challenging two Séralini-lab studies that fueled renewed safety concerns over GMOs and glyphosate
In the wake of the decision by a California federal court concluding that Monsanto’s Roundup, whose active ingredient is glyphosate, ...
Viewpoint: French media’s ‘fake news’ on glyphosate herbicide endangers science in Europe
In Europe, technical matters which should be science-based, such as the authorization of marketing for chemicals or genetically engineered plants, ...
French scientist calls for inquiry into IARC’s ‘misbehavior’ on glyphosate cancer study
Following revelations that IARC withheld data showing the herbicide glyphosate does not cause cancer, French molecular geneticist Marcel Kuntz calls ...
Post-modernism fans world-wide skepticism of modern technology, endangering biotech revolution
[Editor's note: Marcel Kuntz is Research Director at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)] Postmodernism is an ...
French geneticist warns ‘new religion of precaution’ threatens US GMO policy, science
Since the first cargo of genetically modified soybeans was delivered to Europe 20 years ago, scientists have come under fire ...
How should Europe regulate CRISPR, new breeding technologies (NBTs)?
The precautionary principle-minded European Commission may end up guiding the regulatory fate of new biotechnologies, like CRISPR gene editing, crucial ...
Attack on European Commission chief scientific adviser’s position cause for alarm
Political ecologists like science… when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather than changing their minds they often ...
Can Europe return to ‘knowledge-based’ society amid anti-GMO calls to topple science adviser?
Politics are winning at the expense of science in France and now the entire European Union faces a similar fate. On ...
“Parallel science” of NGO advocacy groups: How post-modernism encourages pseudo-science
Political ecologists—commentators in the media and among NGO advocacy groups—like science...when it confirms their views. When it contradicts them, rather ...
On GMOs, France becoming scientific backwater
France does not walk in the footsteps of Norman Borlaug. Half a century of rising farm productivity has let France ...
EU governments ignoring their own scientific risk evaluation committees for political gain
EU governments are ignoring on their own scientific risk evaluation committees and creating false pseudo-scientific documents for political gain. In ...