Steven Novella
Environmentalist opposition to AquaAdvantage salmon ‘irrational, self-contradictory’
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The FDA just approved ...
Computer scientist, holistic nutritionist claim GMOs, glyphosate cause concussions
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. MIT computer scientist and ...
Yale professor dissects flawed anti-GMO commentary in New England Journal of Medicine
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. A recent commentary published ...
Vandana Shiva’s ‘GMO myths’ don’t stand up to evidence
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion, and analysis. Vandana Shiva is one ...
Industry-University GMO relationship: Complicated reality exploited by activists
Concern over ties between academia and industry is legitimate, but often overblown, and can be used to justify witch hunts. There is the ...
80% of Americans demand mandatory labeling of ASOs–Artificially Selected Organisms
A new petition to Whitehouse.gov demands mandatory labeling for all “artificially selected organisms” (ASOs). The petition reads: ASO plants or ...
Seralini study another scientific outlier meant only as anti-GMO fodder
Seralini, author of the infamous study alleging to show increased rates of tumors in rats fed GM food, the one ...
Activists missing point: GMOs proxy for other concerns
In a recent article, Beth Skwarecki writes about the fact that people who are opposed to GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are ...
Audio: Will FOIA request have ‘chilling effect’ on GMO science communication?
On the SGU this week we interviewed Kevin Folta, who is a biotechnology scientist at the University of Florida. Kevin ...
Debunking Creationist study criticizing similiarity between human and chimpanzee DNA
I was recently asked to respond to an apologist page that challenged the scientific claim that human and chimpanzee DNA ...
Vandana Shiva entitled to her own opinions, not her own facts
A recent New Yorker article by Michael Specter does an excellent job of putting the activism of anti-GMO campaigner, Vandana Shiva, into ...
Scientist busts persistent GMO myths, focuses on real issues
One persistent theme in my writing about scientific topics is that, to optimally serve our own interests, public discourse and ...
GMO controversy ‘more cultural than scientific’
Genetically modified organisms, or GMOs, remain controversial, but like so many other politically hot topics, the controversy is more cultural ...
Republished Seralini GM corn toxicity study now ‘infamous’ for poor quality
The strange odyssey of the paper, Long term toxicity of a Roundup herbicide and a Roundup-tolerant genetically modified maize, by Seralini ...
AUDIO: Yale neurologist Steven Novella challenges fears of GMOs, industrial agriculture
For Medium's Inquiring Minds, Indre Viskontas spoke with Dr. Steven Novella, a neurologist at Yale University. Novella is a prominent voice ...
Organic label creates brand perceptions of “healthier” and “safer,” even when untrue
There are many public debates raging that are essentially dueling narratives, both sides claiming to have science, evidence, and logic ...
GMO and Indian farmer suicide backgrounder
The claim that the introduction of GM crops in India has caused an increase in farmer suicides was not based ...
Deconstructing the GMO debate: The difference between reason and ideology
In his blog Neurologica, Steven Novella, MD, argues that ideology is rampant in the debate over GMOs and it's important to ...
Are placebo responses genetic?
A study recently published in PLOS one (Catechol-O-Methyltransferase val158met Polymorphism Predicts Placebo Effect in Irritable Bowel Syndrome) purports to have ...