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Viewpoint: Righteous Risks — Here’s how (and why) environmental advocacy groups misrepresent the risks from innovations but cynically ignore genuine dangers

David Zaruk | 
Synthetic pesticides are under constant regulatory pressure, but not organic pesticides. “Green” renewables and EVs have very little regulatory scrutiny ...
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Idaho lawmakers introduce bill to curb pesticide lawsuits, citing exploitation of the legal system by anti-chemical activists

Irvin Jackson | 
State senators in Idaho have introduced new legislation that aims to limit chemical exposure and injury lawsuits filed against pesticide ...
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Boost to regenerative agriculture: Nanotechnology-enhanced bacterial fertilizer might could reduce farmers’ synthetic chemical dependency

Amanda Jasi | 
Claims we may only have 60 harvests left appear to be hyperbole but the fact remains that our agricultural land ...
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Easy-to-use, biodegradable plant-based pesticide detector in development could provide an extra layer of food safety

Rizwan Choudhury | 
Brazilian researchers have created a sensor that can be attached to the skin of fruits and vegetables to check for harmful ...
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GLP podcast/video: Weed won’t improve your workout; Predatory science journals attack GMOs; Eating insects will be mandatory?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Can marijuana make your workout better? Probably not, according to a recent study. Four science publications produce a large swath ...
US food is pesticide free: Latest USDA report finds 99+% of 23 conventionally-grown fruits, vegetables and grains test below hazard benchmarks

US food is pesticide free: Latest USDA report finds 99+% of 23 conventionally-grown fruits, vegetables and grains test below hazard benchmarks

Tom Karst | 
The USDA has published the 2022 Pesticide Data Program Annual Summary, which shows that over 99% of the samples tested had ...
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Viewpoint: Pesticides ensure ‘sustainable productivity’ — UK farmers bemoan ‘scaremongering’ on pesticides

Daniel Pearsall | 
Three leading farmers have accused the RSPB of irresponsible scaremongering by claiming that a ‘cocktail’ of pesticides used by British farmers ...
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Australian glyphosate cancer litigation: Judge poised to rule on the country’s first weedkiller case

Peter Hobson | 
An Australian court on January 29 heard closing arguments in a class action lawsuit alleging that a weedkiller produced by ...
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Viewpoint: Why proposals to ban all 12,000 PFAS chemicals contradict science

Susan Goldhaber | 
I have previously authored many articles about per- and polyfluroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals,” and the misinformation ...
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GLP podcast/video: Too much cleanliness makes us sick? Protect your genetic data; Against ‘green-neocolonialism’

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Good hygiene is important, but too much of it might be contributing to chronic disease in developed countries. A data ...
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Viewpoint: Whitewash — How four obstructionist journals and their academic enablers are corrupting reporting on the science of chemicals and crop biotechnology

Andrew Porterfield, Jon Entine | 
In 2022 and 2023, two papers analyzing the intersection of genetic engineering and disinformation were published. Neither were in very ...
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Bayer to appeal $2.25 billion judgment that its glyphosate weedkiller caused worker’s cancer

Brendan Pierson | 
Bayer was ordered on January 26 to pay $2.25 billion to a Pennsylvania man who said he developed cancer from ...
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Viewpoint: American Academy of Pediatrics fiasco — International Agency for the Research on Cancer is the cancer at the heart of the anti-glyphosate movement

Myles Power | 
In today’s world, due to the lopsided impact of the bullshit asymmetry principle, the internet is overflowing with misinformation. However, amidst ...
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GLP podcast/video: Yes, BPA is safe; ‘Fake sugar’ promotes real weight loss; How long does it take to develop a pesticide?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
A decades-long campaign alleges that BPA, a chemical used to manufacture many plastic products, is dangerous. There is no evidence ...
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Midwest farmers feel pinch from tighter regulations restricting development of next-generation weedkillers

Rod Nickel, Tom Polansek | 
Reuters interviewed two dozen farmers, scientists, weed specialists and company executives and reviewed eight academic papers published since 2021 which ...
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Mother Jones joins science-literate chorus criticizing the American Academy of Pediatrics’ bungled critique of GMOs and glyphosate

Kiera Butler | 
Last month, the American Academy of Pediatrics issued new guidelines for doctors fielding parents’ questions about the risks of foods containing genetically modified ...
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Viewpoint: Science or scare-mongering? How many pieces of misinformation can you find in this disgraceful American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) attack on GMO crops and glyphosate?

Nicole Keller | 
On Dec 11, 2023, a clinical report titled, “Use of Genetically Modified Organism (GMO) – Containing Food Products in Children” ...
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Are children and pregnant women risking their health by eating “GMO” foods? The American Association of Pediatrics controversially says ‘yes’. The real question: Is the AAP endangering the food vulnerable?

Are foods grown using genetically modified seeds hazardous to our health? Scientists, nutritionists and the global medical establishment say ‘no’.  ...
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How Russia is weaponizing food and fertilizer

Angelo di Mambro | 
Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency ...
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‘If a viable herbicide was discovered this year, farmers couldn’t use it until at least 2035’: Why new weedkillers take so long to hit store shelves

Dwight Lingenfelter | 
Some often wonder why there have not been any new herbicide modes of action [or MOAs] registered in the past ...
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GLP podcast/video: Lab-grown meat divides scientists; The rise of ‘Big Weed’; American Academy of Pediatrics goes anti-GMO?

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Sustainable agriculture advocates are split over the potential benefits of cell-based meat. Why are these longtime allies divided over this ...
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Viewpoint: Is California violating the free speech right of farmers in demanding a safety warning label on glyphosate? The liberal federal Ninth Circuit court rebukes the state for labeling the weedkiller a ‘dangerous chemical’

Steven Boranian | 
California’s Proposition 65 has become a poster child for ineffective and counterproductive over-warning.  You know what we are talking about.  ...
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Viewpoint: Anti-biotechnology, pro-organic dark money web — Tort lawyer-funded, Charles Benbrook-created Heartland Health Research Alliance co-opts academic and government institutions to subvert independent science

David Zaruk, Kathleen Hefferon | 
The Heartland Health Research Alliance (HHRA) an ideologically-focused research groups funded by ‘dark money’ support from the organic industry and ...
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Viewpoint: Crop biotechnology and chemical pseudo-science exposed — Here’s how the ‘dark money’, tort-lawyer funded Heartland Study dupes journalists and co-ops universities

David Zaruk, Kathleen Hefferon | 
Until the 1990s, research was often low-budget, done in government agencies or industry funded. But as universities acquired expensive analytical ...
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GLP podcast/video: ‘Paraquat Papers’ — Latest pesticide scandal wrongly links weedkiller to Parkinson’s

Cameron English, Liza Dunn | 
Thousands of pending lawsuits allege that the weedkiller paraquat causes Parkinson's Disease (PD), a connection its manufacturer tried to hide ...
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Phony Whistleblower Gambit: This is how far some environmental activist groups are willing to go to corrupt science for money and ideological gain

Cameron English | 
Environmental activists rely on several go-to tactics when fomenting fear of pesticides. One of their favorite methods is recruiting fake ...
Glyphosate disinformation: French activists use fake 'glyphosate detection tests' in campaign to turn public against safe weedkiller

Glyphosate disinformation: French activists use fake ‘glyphosate detection tests’ in campaign to turn public against safe weedkiller

Opponents needed a tool that would strike public opinion. Monica Kruger, an activist and director of the private veterinary testing ...
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