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Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here's an epidemiologist's checklist to detect over-hyped scares

Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Claire Williams

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How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems

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GLP Podcast: Organic food industry marketing fraud; 200 dangerous chemicals in drinking water?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn

Avian flu virus detected in raw milk from infected dairy cows. Are we in danger of it spreading to our food supply?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon

How IARC and other ‘independent’ global cancer assessment agencies can distort the public’s understanding of the risks of cancer

Why is it so difficult to find a treatment for Huntington’s Disease?

Why is it so difficult to find a treatment for Huntington’s Disease?

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Viewpoint: Agribashing and the French media — Paper withdraws ‘fake news’ viral article claiming drinking water contains 200 ‘dangerous’ chemicals

How microplastics impact our food and our health

Hillary Kaufman

Debating sustainable agriculture: Weed management and crop biotechnology

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Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here's an epidemiologist's checklist to detect over-hyped scares

Viewpoint: Should you be concerned when you read that a chemical in your food has been linked to cancer? Here’s an epidemiologist’s checklist to detect over-hyped scares

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Claire Williams

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How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems

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GLP Podcast: Organic food industry marketing fraud; 200 dangerous chemicals in drinking water?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn

Avian flu virus detected in raw milk from infected dairy cows. Are we in danger of it spreading to our food supply?

Henry Miller, Kathleen Hefferon

How IARC and other ‘independent’ global cancer assessment agencies can distort the public’s understanding of the risks of cancer

Why is it so difficult to find a treatment for Huntington’s Disease?

Why is it so difficult to find a treatment for Huntington’s Disease?

harmful forever chemicals are in drinking water what you need to know

Viewpoint: Agribashing and the French media — Paper withdraws ‘fake news’ viral article claiming drinking water contains 200 ‘dangerous’ chemicals

How microplastics impact our food and our health

Hillary Kaufman

Debating sustainable agriculture: Weed management and crop biotechnology

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Viewpoint: By engineering block on Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice, Greenpeace ‘puts the whole environmental movement into disrepute’

Mark Lynas | Spectator

Viewpoint: Disinformation on alleged dangers of chemical residues on fruits and vegetables is not only bad science, it causes consumers to avoid produce

Alliance for Food and Farming

Viewpoint: Sri Lanka’s ‘tragic’ legacy — To encourage sustainable farming, countries cannot ignore food production and socioeconomic trade-offs

Hannah Ritchie | Our World in Data

Harnessing power of fungi could play key role in sucking CO2 from the atmosphere

Leo Collis | Cool Down

With Earth Day happening around the world, let’s focus on 10 of the biggest challenges to our global agricultural and food system

Anay Mridul | Green Queen

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Hui Qiao, Kongyang Zhu, Panxin Du | Current Biology

Video: BBC uncovers massive deception by Britain’s ‘social egg freezing’ clinics

Anna Collinson, Bella McShane, Maryam Ahmed | BBC

Viewpoint: Once greatly critical of those using unregulated medications, liberals now endorse unregulated puberty blocking drugs for kids as young as 10. Should we end this dangerous ‘experiment’?

Andrew Sullivan | The Weekly Dish

Viewpoint: Scientific community puts pressure on Germany to repeal law blocking reproductive technology and research on embryos

Isabelle Bartram | Center for Genetics and Society

Viewpoint: ‘Body-tracking data is so much a part of our daily lives that we sometimes forget it can be used against us’

Juliet Kunkel | Yes Magazine

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A New Transparency Tool from the Genetic Literacy Project

Who is David and who is Goliath in the lobbying battle over agricultural biotechnology? Activists? Agro-business? In a commitment to transparency, the GLP has mined 5 years of data to help the public understand the funding network that shapes the biotechnology debate.

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Dissecting claims about Monsanto suing farmers for accidentally planting patented seeds

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Analysis: Do neonicotinoid and glyphosate pesticides threaten bees? A reassessment

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Viewpoint: By engineering block on Vitamin A enhanced Golden Rice, Greenpeace ‘puts the whole environmental movement into disrepute’

Viewpoint: Disinformation on alleged dangers of chemical residues on fruits and vegetables is not only bad science, it causes consumers to avoid produce

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Blue soybeans? Orange wheat? How a gene-edited splash of color could make robotic weeding much easier

Nutritional breakthrough: Genetically modified vitamin B1-fortified rice could help us overcome some health deficiencies

European Ombudsman rejects environmental advocacy group claims that European Commission mishandled favorable impact assessment of gene-edited crops, and closes case

Agricultural Regs & Ethics

Viewpoint: Sri Lanka's 'tragic' legacy — To encourage sustainable farming, countries cannot ignore food production and socioeconomic trade-offs

Viewpoint: Sri Lanka’s ‘tragic’ legacy — To encourage sustainable farming, countries cannot ignore food production and socioeconomic trade-offs

European Ombudsman rejects environmental advocacy group claims that European Commission mishandled favorable impact assessment of gene-edited crops, and closes case

Rollout of Vitamin A enhanced GMO Golden Rice in the Philippines blocked by surprise court ruling

Alternative Proteins

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Want to improve cholesterol and blood pressure? Swapping out meat for plant-based alternatives may not provide heart health benefits, study suggests

‘Affront to nature and creation’: Republicans launch war on lab-grown meat as a ‘liberal conspiracy’ even though it is not for sale yet

GLP podcast: Why some deaf people oppose curing deafness; The dark side of embryo screening; Should states ban lab-grown meat?

Ancestry & Evolution

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Curvy women advantage? Large buttocks may signal an evolutionary edge

Puppy love: When did the ‘unique and deeply ancient role of dogs as human companions’ begin?

Generation X and evolution illiteracy: 30% or less acknowledge human evolution, although they do get slightly wiser as they age

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What is the meaning of life? Artificial intelligence is trying to find out

Superintelligence, superlongevity and superhappiness: How billionaire transhumanists want to converge humanity and artificial intelligence

‘Pesticides of tomorrow’: Bayer uses AI to develop next-generation pesticides, targeting 2030 for roll-out

Brain / Neuroscience

Going on 4 years year, 6.7% of Americans still suffer from brain-foggy remnants of COVID

Going on 4 years later, 1 in 16 Americans still suffer from brain fog and other remnants of COVID

Why is it so difficult to find a treatment for Huntington’s Disease?

Humans are naturally wired to feel fear. What happens in the brain when this turns into PTSD?

Chemical Controversies

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Viewpoint: Iowa farmer explains support for state bill to restrict suits against manufacturers of glyphosate and other pesticides that follow federal guidelines

Debating sustainable agriculture: Weed management and crop biotechnology

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How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems

Viewpoint: Will India embrace a second green revolution — one focused on sustainable agriculture instead of yield?

Gene-edited chickens could reduce the threat of bird flu spread and promote sustainability

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Want to improve cholesterol and blood pressure? Swapping out meat for plant-based alternatives may not provide heart health benefits, study suggests

Nutritional breakthrough: Genetically modified vitamin B1-fortified rice could help us overcome some health deficiencies

Avian flu virus detected in raw milk from infected dairy cows. Are we in danger of it spreading to our food supply?

Human Gene Editing

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Viewpoint: Scientific community puts pressure on Germany to repeal law blocking reproductive technology and research on embryos

Infographic: Could gut bacteria help us diagnose and treat diseases? This is on the horizon thanks to CRISPR gene editing

Viewpoint: Using CRISPR to cure diseases is an ethical tightrope — Here’s a Jewish perspective

Medical Misinformation

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Viewpoint: ‘Baby Olivia’ scandal — Republican legislators lie to kids about fetal development in anti-abortion propaganda video

Viewpoint: Seen headlines saying intermittent fasting diets can boost heart disease risks or even kill you? Here’s why you should be skeptical

Building an ‘uncancellable, parallel society of the future’? Far-right and anti-vaxxers meet to create a ‘freedom economy’ that ‘leaves woke corporations behind’

Medical Regs & Ethics

Viewpoint: Once greatly critical of those using unregulated medications, some liberals now endorse unregulated gender dysphoria drugs for minors as young as 10. Should we ‘end this dangerous experiment’?

Viewpoint: Once greatly critical of those using unregulated medications, liberals now endorse unregulated puberty blocking drugs for kids as young as 10. Should we end this dangerous ‘experiment’?

Viewpoint: Scientific community puts pressure on Germany to repeal law blocking reproductive technology and research on embryos

Viewpoint: ‘Body-tracking data is so much a part of our daily lives that we sometimes forget it can be used against us’

Personalized Medicine

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Viewpoint: Is 23andMe a ‘sinking ship?’ Stock value plummets in face of dwindling customer base and data breaches

‘Their clocks are ticking faster’: Accelerated biological aging linked to cancer risks

Sex and disease: Gene identified that protects men from death when hospitalized with COVID

Synthetic Biology

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‘Affront to nature and creation’: Republicans launch war on lab-grown meat as a ‘liberal conspiracy’ even though it is not for sale yet

Eat what you want while staying healthy? Here’s how scientists are working to transform the sugar that you eat into fiber

Nature’s lost scents: Perfumes made to replicate extinct plants provide an olfactory glimpse into the past

Sustainability & Climate

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Viewpoint: Debunking organic food myths again… and again

Harnessing power of fungi could play key role in sucking CO2 from the atmosphere

With Earth Day happening around the world, let’s focus on 10 of the biggest challenges to our global agricultural and food system

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