Hank Campbell
Viewpoint: Activist disinformation blurs consumers ability to separate ideology from genuine health risks
Vaccines are getting American media attention now that Republicans are engaging in misinformation the way Democrats did for decades, but ...
Viewpoint: Science is a corporate conspiracy: The consequences of the alliance between RFK, Jr., his MAHA acolytes, and science-distorting enviro activists
A National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences paper is sounding the alarm about detectable per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in ...
Viewpoint: Starbuck’s synthetic pumpkin spice: The drink RFK, Jr. should ban if wants to protect our health
In 2003, the Human Genome Project was completed and both Tesla and LinkedIn were founded. Those were all interesting but ...
Viewpoint: Media tout alleged ‘danger’ of homeopathic levels of plastic. That’s scaremongering
Homeopathic levels of plastic are the latest environmental scaremongering fad (Nanoplastics! Microplastics!) dominating partisan corporate media when they are not ...
Viewpoint: ‘Trump may need to ignore RFK, Jr. on food the way he does on energy, or he’s going to send a lot of his voters into bankruptcy’
Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for ...
Organic farming will never be truly sustainable until it embraces gene editing
The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s backward view on pesticides—Banning synthetic crop chemicals for effective organic alternatives ensures armyworms will devastate corn crops
The polyphagous Spodoptera frugiperda (fall armyworm), a Lepidopteran pest, has European farmers in a panic and, when the environmental NGOs ...
Viewpoint—Latest junk science: Ohio State pushes probiotic yogurt
A new paper from Ohio State University can be considered a giant endorsement for yogurt that makes you poop - but unfortunately ...
Viewpoint: Correlation vs. Causation: How epidemiological studies misleads regulators, misrepresents risk and feeds chemophobia
In 1915's The Temperance Program, Thomas F. Hubbard et al. laid out the progressive case for why alcohol needed to ...
Viewpoint: Is drinking water harmful? Activist paper demonstrates how science can be twisted to open the door to tort claims
The drinking water treatment process is designed to remove harmful pathogens that are prevalent in nature, but a new study ...
Viewpoint: Dark money funded Organic Consumers Association close to dissolution. Good riddance to a science embarrassment
The Organic Consumers Association, the embarrassing stepchild of the organic industry founded by the late Ronnie Cummins in 1998, has a positive-sounding ...
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Viewpoint: Why does ‘Big Organic’ oppose hydroponics and other sustainable farming innovations? [Hint: $$$]
I get pitches for stories every day and sometimes I want to see if the world that opposes science has ...
Sticky pesticides: Farmers don’t like using pesticides anymore than we like traces of them on our food. Here’s a smart way forward
It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose ...
Viewpoint: Anatomy of the activist environmental group-tort lawyer alliance—latest target is a safe chemical in use for half a millennium
Claims about occupational hazards, chemicals correlated to disease, occur every week, from non-stick spatulas to flame-retardant couches, and the group ...
While raw milk increases health risk by 70,000% percent, cheese made from raw milk is safe to eat
The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, ...
Viewpoint: Kill Prop 65—It’s past time to ditch California’s science-twisting and misguided attacks on safe-as-used chemicals
Proposition 65 was a voter referendum that stated if a chemical was correlated to cancer, it needed to have a ...
No, the modern world is not killing us–Viewpoint: RFK. Jr.’s reckless war on food and agriculture
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and his Children's Defense Fund and his work as a trial lawyer for Natural Resources Defense ...
Viewpoint: $3 billion a year industry exploits unwarranted fears about the dangers of ‘synthetic chemicals’
A [paper published in Science] claims that even at low doses pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides are changing the behavior of ...
Viewpoint: ‘Chemical cocktail’ speculation is homeopathic hysteria
Blood samples of pregnant women have detectable levels of chemicals and that 'chemical cocktail' may pose [a] "neurotoxic risk", according ...
Viewpoint: NGOs are run by ‘lawyers and fundraisers’ who ignore science in their obsession to kill agricultural genetic engineering
If you read Twitter, and probably Bluesky, if anyone reads that, Republicans are in a War On Science and the ...
Viewpoint: ‘Progressives think rural people are dumb rubes’—Farmers know that neonicotinoid insecticides do not harm honeybees
Minnesota is having a challenging year, so challenging they are approaching California as the wackiest state, according to other states ...
Video: Viewpoint—The opportunism of anti-chemical crusaders
Unless you think plants are little people, so you don't understand any science, it is impossible to believe a weedkiller ...
Viewpoint: Science colonialism — Europe and the United Nations are blocking crop biotechnology poised to address global hunger
Wealthy countries with natural 'breadbaskets' - places where it is easy to grow food - have so much abundance they ...
Losing weight can cause cancer? Here’s how epidemiologists’ studies can skew science to fit ideological viewpoints
As the century turned, the science community began to become critical of a once-honored field; epidemiology. If you are not ...
Responding to ‘eco-terrorist’ attack on rice varietal engineered to resist disease, Italian government recommits to science
Eco-terrorists perhaps thought Italy was like other European countries and destroying a CRISPR food test plot would make the government apologize and ...
Glyphosate legal update: Meta-study used by ambulance-chasing tort lawyers targeting Bayer’s Roundup as carcinogenic deemed ‘junk science nonsense’ by trial judge
Trial lawyers suing over a popular weedkiller saw six words they never want to read in a court document approving ...
Viewpoint: Organic chemicals don’t harm essential soil microbes — but glyphosate does? Propaganda claims collapse after real-world study
Is glyphosate damaging essential microbes in soil? A multi-year study sought to answer the question using real-world conditions ...
Viewpoint: Forget environmental and organic mumbo-jumbo — Here’s what you really get at farmer’s markets
There is populist rhetoric about Buy Local but what few in the public realize is that the definition is subjective ...
