Viewpoint: BPA and phthalate hysteria — Venturing out of its knowledge zone, ‘Consumer Reports’ launches anti-chemical tirade on plastic food packaging

Viewpoint: BPA and phthalate hysteria — Venturing out of its knowledge zone, ‘Consumer Reports’ launches anti-chemical tirade on plastic food packaging

If you want advice on which coffee maker or space heater to buy, Consumer Reports (CR) is where you go ...
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When a farmer and a dietitian are the same person: Telling stories to counter misinformation about biotechnology

Jennie Schmidt, Third-Generation Maryland Farmer, Registered Dietitian, Member of the Global Farmer Network | March 1, 2024 Highlights: Combining a ...
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Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s manufactured ‘dangerous levels of chlormequat in oat cereals’ study underscores the ‘risk perception gap’

Andrea Love | Genetic Literacy Project | 
The number of messages I received from people, mostly parents, who said they had been terrified to feed their children ...
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Viewpoint: Does Donald Trump’s authoritarian style and his popularity among ultra-conservative religious leaders echo the rise of Hitler’s Nazi Germany?

Each September marks the anniversary of Nazi Germany’s Nuremberg Laws, whose passage in 1935 stripped Jews of their German citizenship and ...
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Viewpoint: Journal Pediatrics reneges on its commitment to print response to botched article claiming GMOs are harmful to children. Here’s what they censored

Kevin Folta | Genetic Literacy Project | 
A lot has been said about the journal Pediatrics December 2023 Clinical Report on "Using GMOs on Children". The poor scholarship ...
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GLP podcast: Bad research sows distrust in science; Pesticides in food aren’t dangerous—unless you eat 340 apples daily

Bad research in peer-reviewed journals is undermining the public's trust in science. What can experts do to stop the flow ...
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Viewpoint: Are organizations claimed as “partners” with tort industry-funded Heartland Study aware of the scam? Here’s an ‘open letter’ challenge

Multiple science communicators and scientists have composed a letter to various universities and government organizations that have been linked to ...
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When in our evolutionary history did we become ‘human’?

Nick Longrich | Genetic Literacy Project | 
We now know from evolutionary science that humanity has existed in some form or another for around 2 million years ...
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Viewpoint: Weighing the costs of relying on government-reimbursements to address America’s ballooning fat problem

Richard Williams | Genetic Literacy Project | 
Giving everyone that is overweight or obese access to one of the new diet drugs would increase deficit spending from ...
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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

Hank Campbell | Genetic Literacy Project | 
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: Exploiting chemophobia—Environmental Working Groups’s manufactured study claiming oat cereal contains dangerous pesticides designed to manipulate the media

Andrea Love | Genetic Literacy Project | 
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) and media outlets are trying to scare people away from demonstrably safe and nutritious conventional food products ...
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Organ shortage and genetic modification: Tissues from 3D-bioprinting and GM pigs could address organ shortages but over-regulation causes lags

Modern medicine has produced many kinds of high-tech miracles, among them gene therapy to correct malfunctioning genes, electrical stimulation devices to restore ...
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Viewpoint: UK’s organic farming lobby needs to drop its ideological rejection of gene editing if it hopes to remain viable

David Hill | Genetic Literacy Project | 
In July last year, the European Commission published its proposals for regulating plants developed using new genomic techniques (NGTs) such ...
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Genetic justice: Polygenic scores and ethnic differences

Jonathan Anomaly | Genetic Literacy Project | 
Polygenic risk scores (PRSs) are powerful tools. They gauge how likely you are to have a given trait based only ...
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