‘What isn’t an endocrine disruptor?’ Silent Spring Institute claims hundreds of common chemicals cause breast cancer — but the science is lacking

‘What isn’t an endocrine disruptor?’ Silent Spring Institute claims hundreds of common chemicals cause breast cancer — but the science is lacking

Genetic Literacy Project | 
A study by the Silent Spring Institute (1), with funding from the politically sympathetic National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences ...
Does ‘intensive agriculture’ make pandemics more likely? That’s the claim. Here are the facts

Does ‘intensive agriculture’ make pandemics more likely? That’s the claim. Here are the facts

Science 2.0 | 
Animals can cause diseases in humans. That won't surprise you. What may surprise you is to read that these diseases ...
Viewpoint: Here's what 'whole grain' really means—and it's not the health claim you've been told it is

Viewpoint: Here’s what ‘whole grain’ really means—and it’s not the health claim you’ve been told it is

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Consumers have been so saturated with vague marketing claims that nearly 50 percent can't correctly identify what is claimed to ...
Viewpoint: Heard reports that dozens of environmental chemicals found in pregnant women pose health dangers? It’s junk science, and here’s why

Viewpoint: Heard reports that dozens of environmental chemicals found in pregnant women pose health dangers? It’s junk science, and here’s why

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH, of the University of California San Francisco, frequent collaborator of anti-vaccine activist and organic industry trade ...
Viewpoint: Biden Interior Secretary's opposition to pesticides and GM crops puts endangered species in jeopardy

Viewpoint: Biden Interior Secretary’s opposition to pesticides and GM crops puts endangered species in jeopardy

Washington Examiner | 
Deb Haaland’s nomination to head the Interior Department has advanced to the full Senate, but the New Mexico representative weathered ...
Viewpoint: USDA data show the predicted ‘Beepocalypse’ has been postponed another year

Viewpoint: USDA data show the predicted ‘Beepocalypse’ has been postponed another year

Science 2.0 | 
The latest numbers on honeybee colonies have been released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and they show that the ...
Viewpoint: Evidence or ‘junk science’—Will the Biden Administration ban essential pesticides experts say are safe?

Viewpoint: Evidence or ‘junk science’—Will the Biden Administration ban essential pesticides experts say are safe?

Genetic Literacy Project | 
Within days of being sworn in, President Joe Biden elevated the science adviser to the president to Cabinet rank, with ...
Once battling starvation, some developing countries now face rising obesity rates. What’s causing it?

Once battling starvation, some developing countries now face rising obesity rates. What’s causing it?

Science 2.0 | 
In 1975, four percent of school-age kids were overweight and the NCD Risk Factor Collaboration says that was up to ...
Sketchy vegan-promoting physicians group produces study attacking ‘blood type’ diet - and it’s surprisingly rigorous and convincing

Sketchy vegan-promoting physicians group produces study attacking ‘blood type’ diet – and it’s surprisingly rigorous and convincing

Nearly every sort of diet has appeared on the New York Times bestseller list by now, all claiming to have ...
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Viewpoint: UK decision to rescind neonics pesticide restrictions a welcome win for science

Science 2.0 | 
Activists like George Monbiot and Dave Goulson are parroting their environmental allies when it comes to neonics, but the science ...
Viewpoint: Why organic farming won't help preserve the world's biodiversity

Viewpoint: Why organic farming won’t help preserve the world’s biodiversity

Genetic Literacy Project | 
A recent paper finds that if just 15 percent of farmland reverted to nature, it would wipe out nearly a third ...
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Viewpoint: We have a food-waste problem, but cutting meat consumption won’t solve it

Science 2.0 | 
Most commercial produce is bought and discarded within two days. It can't even be given to food shelters or homeless ...
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Viewpoint: Vegetarian diet won’t help you slim down—only cutting calories can do that

Science 2.0 | 
A vegetarian diet can be healthy for you. Just like any diet. Even if you only eat salads or any ...
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Viewpoint: Why the USDA should approve GMO disease-resistant chestnut trees

Science 2.0 | 
You may [have] heard “chestnuts on an open fire” at Christmas but they are a lot of rarer than they ...
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Viewpoint: Ideology, politics pollute the debate over health risks of red meat

Genetic Literacy Project | 
For decades there has been a statistical controversy about meat. By statistical I mean it was never a real health ...
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Viewpoint: Germany’s pesticide use drops for 8th straight year, but anti-GMO groups say that’s not good enough

Science 2.0 | 
German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture data show that use of crop protection products, e.g. pesticides, went down last ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Bird apocalypse’? Study wrongly blames neonicotinoid pesticides for declining bird biodiversity

Science 2.0 | 
Though periodic deaths of bees continue to happen, and have been documented for as long as records of bees have ...
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Viewpoint: While ‘elitist academics’ praise local food ‘industrial farming’ feeds us during a pandemic

Genetic Literacy Project | 
With the world COVID-19 pandemic in its sixth month, food activists are back to trumpeting locally grown, and even home ...
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Viewpoint: Without modern, industrial farming, pandemic would have claimed many more lives

Genetic Literacy Project | 
In November of 2019 The Atlantic asked "experts" what they would change if they could go back in time. The ...
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Viewpoint: As COVID-19 boosts public trust in science, media promote myths about cancer and food

Science 2.0 | 
Thanks to COVID-19, the public has gotten a lot more skeptical about claims that chemicals, food, and medicine are corporate ...
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Viewpoint: ‘Fear profiteering’—organic activists, trial lawyers capitalize on coronavirus to make a buck

Science 2.0 | 
While 70 million Americans are under lockdown to contain spread of the 2019 form of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in order to ...
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Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb suggests regulators may crack down on ‘confusing’ non-GMO labels

Science 2.0 | 
If FDA ever enforces its own rules, they could stop lots of nonsense labels on food, and recent comments by ...
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Viewpoint: How organic, non-GMO marketing turned food labels into ‘wild west’ of deceptive advertising

Detroit News | 
Food labels these days are like the Wild West of dishonest advertising. Plant juice can be called milk, steak can ...
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Viewpoint: Biologist Tyrone Hayes, author of suspect atrazine weed killer study, nominated for EPA’s Scientific Advisory Panel

Science 2.0 | 
Comments opened on the recent EPA nominations to serve on the Scientific Advisory Panel (SAP) .... The name at number ...
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Viewpoint: Eat organic apples to improve gut health? There’s reason for skepticism

Science 2.0 | 
Yogurt marketing and supplement claims aside, there is no evidence that your body is impacted by probiotics unless you suffered ...
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Blight-tolerant American chestnut tree: Latest biotech solution to nature’s assault on valued species

Wall Street Journal | 
A blight-tolerant American chestnut tree is the latest example of what the science community has begun to call a GRO—a ...
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As IARC glyphosate-cancer finding draws more scrutiny, WHO rebukes agency for ‘undermining’ other UN chemical safety assessments

Science 2.0 | 
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) was once a serious, revered organization with the somber task of tackling ...
money growing from the ground Newsletter

Viewpoint: Mainstream Arnold Foundation now major funder of fringe anti-GMO USRTK while Organic Consumers Association cuts support

Genetic Literacy Project | 
US Right To Know may now be too poisonous even for the Organic Consumers Association ...
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