Viewpoint: ‘Responsible research and innovation’ — Activist doublespeak for blocking technological innovation

Viewpoint: ‘Responsible research and innovation’ — Activist doublespeak for blocking technological innovation

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No sensible person could favor irresponsible research and innovation. So RRI—"responsible research and innovation"—may sound like an innocuous idea. As it takes ...
Viewpoint: Will crop biotechnology breakthroughs usher in a new ‘Green Revolution’?

Viewpoint: Will crop biotechnology breakthroughs usher in a new ‘Green Revolution’?

Reason | 
A recent spate of crop biotech breakthroughs presage a New Green Revolution that will boost crop production, shrink agriculture's environmental ...
Lab-grown meat promises to cut water and land use by more than 96%. Why are US regulators dragging their feet in approving this ‘sustainable innovation’?

Lab-grown meat promises to cut water and land use by more than 96%. Why are US regulators dragging their feet in approving this ‘sustainable innovation’?

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Future Meat Technologies announced [recently] that it can now produce 1,100 pounds of meat daily from animal cells grown in industrial-scale ...
Persuasion machines: AI can now debate humans. We still win — for now

Persuasion machines: AI can now debate humans. We still win — for now

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Stand aside, Siri and Alexa. An IBM team led by artificial intelligence (A.I.) researcher Noam Slonim has devised a system ...
Genetically modified AquaBounty salmon hits US markets after two decades of regulatory delays — and it’s already sold out

Genetically modified AquaBounty salmon hits US markets after two decades of regulatory delays — and it’s already sold out

Reason | 
Way back in 1995, biotech company AquaBounty began the process of seeking regulatory approval from the Food and Drug Administration ...
Viewpoint: FDA took 24 years to approve fast-growing GM salmon. Let’s hope lab-made meat, dairy hit the market sooner

Viewpoint: FDA took 24 years to approve fast-growing GM salmon. Let’s hope lab-made meat, dairy hit the market sooner

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[Numerous] startups are pursuing the production of cultured meats including Israel-based Future Meat Technologies and Dutch companies Meatable and Mosa ...
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Will Biden Administration preserve Trump USDA’s science-based crop biotechnology rules?

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"Listen to the science" was an oft-heard riposte in political debates about how the government should respond to the COVID-19 ...
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Viewpoint: Activists aim to block GM chestnut tree by hyping potential risks and ignoring real benefits

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For more than 30 years, the American Chestnut Foundation (ACF) has been engaged in a privately financed program .... to produce ...
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Viewpoint: Bayer caved to anti-science trial lawyers by settling glyphosate-cancer lawsuits

Reason | 
Bayer, the German pesticide and seed company, has agreed to establish a $10 billion fund that aims to resolve current ...
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US birth rate hits record low—and that might be a good thing

Reason | 
The U.S. total fertility rate has dropped to below 1.73 births per woman, according to a new report from the ...
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EPA wants scientists to share their data: Will it promote government transparency or threaten public health?

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"The Trump administration is preparing to significantly limit the scientific and medical research that the government can use to determine ...
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Viewpoint: Hectoring Americans to go vegan will do ‘almost nothing’ to combat climate change

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Eating meat is bad for the climate—or at least that was one of the main conclusions highlighted in a flood ...
No Bee Armageddon: US honeybee colony numbers stable for 25 years. Thank capitalism?

No Bee Armageddon: US honeybee colony numbers stable for 25 years. Thank capitalism?

Reason | 
Warnings of an impending "bee apocalypse" became widespread in 2006, after some commercial beekeepers reported the mass disappearance of worker ...
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Viewpoint: Gene-edited kids are no riskier than the non-edited variety

Reason | 
"The introduction of genetic modifications into future generations could have permanent and possibly harmful effects on the species," a group ...
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Viewpoint: Despite anti-GMO opposition, poor farmers will finally plant ‘life-saving’ golden rice

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Golden Rice which has been genetically engineered to have higher levels of the vitamin A precursor beta-carotene is finally about ...
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Viewpoint: UN should reject a proposed ban on gene drives

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A draft resolution would revise the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity to call on governments to "refrain from" releasing organisms containing engineered ...
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Could green benefits of biotech crops win over ‘ideological’ environmentalists?

Reason | 
A new study in Nature Sustainability reports that “[e]xtensive field data suggest that impacts on wild populations would be greatly reduced through boosting yields ...
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‘Stupidity-inducing environment’: Are we getting dumber?

Reason | 
People are getting dumber. So concludes a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Using military conscription data ...
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Fears of ‘designer babies’ are surfacing again

Reason | 
"What we're seeing is a fast slide down a very slippery slope toward designer babies," warned Marcy Darnovsky. … What has alarmed ...
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Home biohacker: Creating deadly human pathogens ‘is not that easy’

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Using the handy tools sent in [the ODIN’s Genetk Design Kit], I was set to re-engineer some nonpathogenic E. coli ...
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FDA lightens up on ‘outrageous’ direct-to-consumer genetic information ban

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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) head Scott Gottlieb is reeling in his agency's outrageous four-year ban on direct-to-consumer genetic testing. Under the ...
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Viewpoint: Confirmation bias, conflicts of interest plague ‘science’ behind glyphosate cancer claims

Reason | 
Anti-biotech activists hate the herbicide glyphosate, sold by Monsanto under the brand name Roundup. Those activists won a victory in ...
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Are predictions climate change will reduce crop yields wrong?

Reason | 
Those of us who try to monitor the torrent of climate change studies frequently come across various projections that just ...
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Swedish scientist edits DNA of healthy embryos—Should the public worry?

Reason | 
[On Sept. 22,] an NPR report, "Breaking Taboo, Swedish Scientists Seeks To Edit DNA of Healthy Human Embryos," stokes the ...

Ronald Bailey: Legal vultures use activist claims about glyphosate for ‘bogus’ Quaker Oats lawsuit

Reason | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Activists are now using ...

CRISPR’s gene-edited crops might provide an opportunity to revamp biotech regulations

Reason | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Thanks to entirely specious fears about ...
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Nassim Taleb calls Reason’s Ronald Bailey an ‘idiot’ after backing out of GMO debate

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The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . [A]nti-GMO alarmist ...
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Nassim Taleb ducks out of debate on GMO safety

Reason | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Nassim Taleb. . . NYU ...
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