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Viewpoint: Money grab — How the Environmental Working Group works hand-in-hand with tort lawyers to generate billion-dollar junk suits

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On February 15th, the litigation outfit known as Environmental Working Group, most famous for using public USDA data (although excluding pesticides from ...
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Viewpoint: No, the data do not show that using sex toys release cancer-causing phthalate microplastics into your body

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Microplastics are a kernel of biological concern that gets magnified by hype, like endocrine "disrupting" chemicals or weedkillers detectable in ...
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Viewpoint: Organic farming and sustainable agriculture are often in conflict. Here’s why

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hen it comes to denying science, California leads America, and sometimes the world. In early 2020, for example, when the ...
Viewpoint: Scientifically illiterate claim that aspartame causes cancer illustrates again the escalating politicization of science

Viewpoint: Scientifically illiterate claim that aspartame causes cancer illustrates again the escalating politicization of science

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If you have been in science media for any period of time, you have seen a predictable pattern; epidemiologists look ...
Viewpoint: ‘So-called environmentalists can eat crow, transgenic corn proves a win for science and the public’

Viewpoint: ‘So-called environmentalists can eat crow, transgenic corn proves a win for science and the public’

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In 2020, storms caused an estimated $12 billion in damage, including in Iowa, where a giant amount of America's corn ...
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Viewpoint: Why IARC—an international agency that reviews cancer threats—needs to be replaced by a science-based alternative

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IARC epidemiologists claim bacon is as bad for you as plutonium, that plants are little people, and sugar-free gum will ...
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Are ‘healthy’ substitutes worth the extra cost? Here’s why you shouldn’t fall for low-carb, whole-wheat, all-natural labels at the grocery store

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A new survey says lots of people opt for 'healthier' substitutes like chicken instead of beef and vanilla-flavored plant juice instead ...
Viewpoint: Pesticides in strawberries? Environmental Working Group scares people about safe produce but ignores chemicals applied by their organic mega donors

Viewpoint: Pesticides in strawberries? Environmental Working Group scares people about safe produce but ignores chemicals applied by their organic mega donors

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Environmental Working Group, the Extinction Rebellion of affordable produce, is always in a war on strawberries - unless they only ...
Viewpoint: Deception and dirty politics are behind targeting of PFAS

Viewpoint: Deception and dirty politics are behind targeting of PFAS

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With allied epidemiologists placed inside the US Environmental Protection Agency, and scientists pushed to the side, environmentalists feel like they ...
Viewpoint: ‘Science does not matter in Europe’ — European Chemicals Agency says weedkiller glyphosate does not cause cancer, but it will be banned nonetheless

Viewpoint: ‘Science does not matter in Europe’ — European Chemicals Agency says weedkiller glyphosate does not cause cancer, but it will be banned nonetheless

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Committee for Risk Assessment is unsurprisingly more literate than a San Francisco jury, so they ...
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Is there a connection between eating ‘highly processed foods’ and poor mental health?

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One recent effort getting new life thanks to a sympathetic ally in corporate journalism is a "link" between ultra-processed foods and mental ...
Viewpoint: Can the International Agency for Research on Cancer be trusted to dispassionately assess potential dangers of aspartame when its key evaluator claims to know the answer in advance?

Viewpoint: Can the International Agency for Research on Cancer be trusted to dispassionately assess potential dangers of aspartame when its key evaluator claims to know the answer in advance?

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), a United Nations epidemiology group headquartered in France, could be in ethical ...
How using solar panels in agriculture can increase yields and fight climate change disruptions

How using solar panels in agriculture can increase yields and fight climate change disruptions

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Farms have a lot of open land and that has made them ideal for solar power installations. For example, though ...
Honeybee health: Driving problem is not climate or pesticides but the deadly Varroa mite

Honeybee health: Driving problem is not climate or pesticides but the deadly Varroa mite

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Some food grown in the US, especially high-cost luxuries like almonds, are pollinated using bees. Since bees are most often ...
Concerned about pesticide levels in food? Environmental Working Group's Dirty Dozen list ignores organic pesticides while misrepresenting conventional trace chemical dangers

Concerned about pesticide levels in food? Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen list ignores organic pesticides while misrepresenting conventional trace chemical dangers

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The Environmental Working Group wants to insure allied journalists like Sheila Kaplan that their new "dirty dozen" list is almost ready ...
Sleeping pills hasten dementia? Bogus study illustrates how correlation studies are often manipulated to reach a desired, ideological conclusion

Sleeping pills hasten dementia? Bogus study illustrates how correlation studies are often manipulated to reach a desired, ideological conclusion

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A new exploratory paper links sleeping pills to dementia but while the press release uses the term risk frequently, it ...
Viewpoint: MIT turns blind eye to misinformation on agricultural biotechnology and vaccines promoted by ‘infamous crank’ computer scientist Stephanie Seneff

Viewpoint: MIT turns blind eye to misinformation on agricultural biotechnology and vaccines promoted by ‘infamous crank’ computer scientist Stephanie Seneff

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How long before academics who spout anti-vaccine nonsense related to COVID-19 get a level of accountability academics who spouted anti-vaccine ...
Viewpoint: Anti-biotech advocacy group opposition to forest-restoring GM chestnut tree mimics their disingenuous rejection of nutrition-enhancing GM Golden Rice

Viewpoint: Anti-biotech advocacy group opposition to forest-restoring GM chestnut tree mimics their disingenuous rejection of nutrition-enhancing GM Golden Rice

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Critics of scientists and science writers who speak plainly usually note it is better to be more neutral in tone, ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organic-only policies are the new face of European colonialism’ — Here’s how crop biotechnology innovation is opening doors to Africa’s self sufficiency

Viewpoint: ‘Organic-only policies are the new face of European colonialism’ — Here’s how crop biotechnology innovation is opening doors to Africa’s self sufficiency

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Former colonies of Europe were banned from sale unless they obeyed Europe when it came to food. Yet Africa has ...
Viewpoint: Will King Charles abandon his kooky ideas about agriculture and help accelerate Britain's embrace of sustainable biotechnology tools?

Viewpoint: Will King Charles abandon his kooky ideas about agriculture and help accelerate Britain’s embrace of sustainable biotechnology tools?

England is in crisis. They lost a beloved figurehead this month but for decades prior were losing scientific ground. If ...
Viewpoint: Follow the science? Biden Administration politicizes EPA by ignoring its own scientists in backdoor way to ban atrazine. It will harm farming and increase food prices

Viewpoint: Follow the science? Biden Administration politicizes EPA by ignoring its own scientists in backdoor way to ban atrazine. It will harm farming and increase food prices

The No. 1 crop in America is corn. It’s a major ingredient in thousands of food and beverage items as ...
Anti-pesticide campaigners maintain that insecticide sulfoxaflor violates the Endangered Species Act. Here’s how Biden’s EPA responded

Anti-pesticide campaigners maintain that insecticide sulfoxaflor violates the Endangered Species Act. Here’s how Biden’s EPA responded

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We may be our own worst critics, but America continues to lead the world in science, science literacy, and science ...
Viewpoint: Neil Young’s GMO and biotechnology rejection preceding his Joe Rogan-Spotify awakening featured alliance with notorious anti-vaxxers

Viewpoint: Neil Young’s GMO and biotechnology rejection preceding his Joe Rogan-Spotify awakening featured alliance with notorious anti-vaxxers

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Prior to 2021, the demographic that overwhelmingly included vaccine deniers was Neil Young's political tribe. Find a Whole Foods, and ...
Viewpoint: In Roundup-cancer cases, juries are often swayed by emotional arguments — but the facts are in glyphosate’s favor

Viewpoint: In Roundup-cancer cases, juries are often swayed by emotional arguments — but the facts are in glyphosate’s favor

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A jury in San Bernardino can't believe that Donnetta Stephens’ cancer was caused because she used Roundup. In a post-COVID-19 ...
Thankful for science: How pesticides made your Thanksgiving meal possible

Thankful for science: How pesticides made your Thanksgiving meal possible

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This year, you're going to pay 24 percent more for a turkey, a tough bite out of the wallet for ...
Smokers are less likely to get COVID: French researchers explore whether nicotine might prevent transmission

Smokers are less likely to get COVID: French researchers explore whether nicotine might prevent transmission

Genetic Literacy Project | 
As we are hopefully exiting the third coronavirus pandemic of the last 17 years, it is time to consider that ...
Viewpoint: 'Silent Earth' cynically peddles scientifically unsupported insect apocalypse hysteria to nakedly promote organic agenda

Viewpoint: ‘Silent Earth’ cynically peddles scientifically unsupported insect apocalypse hysteria to nakedly promote organic agenda

To most people, food production, home ownership, and energy don't have much in common, but in the hands of 'science ...
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Viewpoint: IARC — International Agency for Research on Cancer — tries to regroup after blunders on glyphosate and chemical evaluations undermine its former independent reputation

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in France was once one of the most respected epidemiology groups in ...
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