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Viewpoint: After years of misreporting, NY Times embraces safety and efficacy of GMOs — but still stumbles on nuance and key facts
Genetically engineered (GE) crops, which have been commercially available for 25 years, have been widely misunderstood and under-appreciated, especially by ...
Ivermectin obsession illustrates why pandemics are a great opportunity for fraudsters to manipulate data. What can be done?
The COVID pandemic is a great opportunity for fraudsters. With the desperation for new treatments, a tsunami of research crashes ...
Appealing to ‘scientific consensus’ can correct GMO misconceptions — but is not effective against climate change denial, study finds
Despite mountains of evidence that genetically modified foods are safe and climate change is real, many people still doubt these ...
Politics, ideology and values shape science at nearly every stage, from deciding what phenomena to research to how to talk about results
Science has always been political. The science policy scholar Daniel Sarewitz subsumes the idea that scientific research is politically neutral ...
‘Prejudiced, anti-science, anti-social stances’: Letter denounces University of Missouri lecture series speech invitation to anti-biotechnology activist-philosopher Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva, an Indian activist philosopher who maintains the Green Revolution was a failure and promotes small-scale farming to address ...
Videos: Debunking three viral social media videos that promote ‘snake oil’ products and spread misinformation about the ‘dangers’ of pesticides on produce
Here I’m going to explore three viral videos I’ve come across on social media in which [multi-level marketing, or] MLM ...
Will Republican political resistance to the COVID-19 vaccine mutate into broader vaccine hesitancy?
In recent years, outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases, spurred by low vaccination rates in children, emerged in wealthy, liberal places.... But ...
Tune out the media noise: Vaccine mandates are mostly being embraced — and they’re working
Apparently some editors have decided it’s just a fine idea to blast out the tidbit that Americans are quitting their ...
Viewpoint: ‘The vaccine is more harmful than the coronavirus itself’ — How one floundering Ohio lawyer played the right wing circuit and turned disinformation into a lucrative business
In one of dozens of recent media appearances, Ohio attorney Thomas Renz was claiming that coronavirus vaccines were more harmful ...
Viewpoint: Why is a university spending as much as $100,000 to host anti-science, anti-biotechnology activist Vandana Shiva?
The University of Missouri at Kansas City (UMKC) has invited Vandana Shiva to speak on October 7th. According to a ...
‘Simple and ugly’: Reddit group named after Republican COVID denier Herman Cain grimly catalogues those who died after mocking seriousness of the coronavirus
HermanCainAward, one of the fastest-growing subreddits on Reddit.com, is exactly what it sounds like: an archive of those who have ...
Infographic: ‘There is no clear evidence that differences between organic and conventionally grown foods have any bearing on health’
Yes, there are some differences between organically grown food and food produced using conventional methods, said Siv Kjølsrud Bøhn at ...
GLP Podcast: Don’t fight science denial like this; CO2-sucking GE trees; Organic industry hates hydroponics
A new book outlines a method for changing the minds of "science deniers"—and it's terrible, according to a particularly harsh ...
Sharp increase in deaths and hospitalizations driving COVID vaccinations
More than 7 in 10 adults (72%) in the U.S. now report that they are at least partially vaccinated against ...
‘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 ...
‘Clinically proven’ memory-boosting supplements like Prevagen don’t work. So how do they escape FDA crackdown?
Some popular supplements advertised on TV claim to be “clinically” proven, but in fact are not. Notably, the maker of ...
Evangelical faith app goes rogue: How Subsplash went from spreading the word of Jesus to disseminating junk science and COVID conspiracy theories
Tim and Kristy Turner believe they were called to spread the word of Jesus through apps. In 2005, the pair ...
Video: Beyond the science ideology trap — GLP’s Jon Entine challenges media and activist misinformation on GMO crops, nuclear energy, insect declines and climate change
From rampant COVID vaccine rejectionism to nuclear energy skepticism to activist attacks on GMOs and CRISPR crops, anti-science ideology is ...
Popular Science weighs in on the GMO debate: ‘Food safety experts agree genetically modified organisms, from plants to animals, are safe for human consumption’
By January 2022, products that have been bioengineered, or have an ingredient in them that’s been bioengineered, will require a ...
As Switzerland faces decision whether to renew its ban on genetically modified crops, consumer resistance shows signs of fading
We often hear that Swiss consumers want their agriculture to be free from genetic engineering. But consumer acceptance of genetically ...
Viewpoint: ‘Green neo-colonialism’ — Utopian visions of organic farming promote starvation in Africa
Across Africa, farmers and governments are struggling to feed growing populations. Ongoing and deadly locusts and Fall Armyworm infestations, cancer-causing ...
How do religious COVID vaccine exemptions work — and how do you prevent people from abusing them?
The idea of a religious exemption as a concept has a long and complicated history in the U.S., but it ...
Viewpoint: Golden Rice approval fallout — ‘Greenpeace has transitioned from an organization concerned about the environment to one that fights against improved food security and reduced childhood blindness’
In late July 2021, the Philippines became the first country on the planet to approve Golden Rice for production and human ...
‘Bizarre and dangerous misinformation’: Media Matters analysis reveals One America News Network’s anti-vaccination crusade
Right-wing cable network One America News is continuing its months-long campaign against public health by spreading dangerous and bizarre conspiracy ...
‘COVID vaccines are wondrous weapons, but they aren’t impenetrable armor’
When Covid-19 vaccines were reported last fall to be roughly 95% effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 infections, the world rejoiced ...
GLP Podcast: Abortion muddies COVID vaccine debate; Coffee is heart healthy again; Genetics of homosexuality
If women have a right to abortion, does everyone else have a right to refuse a COVID shot? The "my ...
Viewpoint: ‘There is no legitimate Christian doctrine-backed case for vaccine mandate exemptions’
According to the Civil Rights Act, [vaccine] exemptions are meant to apply to people with “sincerely held religious beliefs,” and ...
