Learning from the GMO stigmatization debacle: Why we shouldn’t call cell-based protein ‘lab meat’

Learning from the GMO stigmatization debacle: Why we shouldn’t call cell-based protein ‘lab meat’

Jan Dutkiewicz, Sarah Garland | New Republic | 
As the rise of nontraditional meat accelerates, the Agriculture Department is seeking input on names for these novel foods “that ...
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Viewpoint: Turning farms into carbon repositories can’t stave off ‘climate catastrophe’

Charlie Mitchell | New Republic | 
In late June, overlooked amid pandemic, economic crisis, and protest headlines, a bipartisan cohort of United States senators introduced a ...
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Why evolution is more complicated than Darwin imagined

Adam Gaffney | New Republic | 
Darwinian evolution [is] the transmission of genes and traits down the family line. DNA, it turns out, can also be ...
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Did math build a barrier between scientists and God?

In a new book called The Great Rift: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Religion-Science Divide, Michael E. Hobart offers a new twist on ...
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Democratic politicians’ mostly anti-GMO views lead list of liberal anti-science positions

Eric Armstrong | New Republic | 
... The liberal obsession with things that are “natural” or “organic” often also clashes with science...just because a product is ...
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Rapid DNA testing may threaten personal privacy, civil rights

Ava Kofman | New Republic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Your DNA can now ...
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Foreign spies now stealing GMO secrets, not just military secrets

Ted Genoways | New Republic | 
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Recently, the FBI caught ...

Egg-freezing rhetoric poses major ideological struggle for American women

New Republic | 
Facebook and Apple’s offer to cover the costs of egg freezing for their employees has made a large range of headlines. “Not ...

Ethics issue aside, freezing human eggs may be dangerous

Josephine Johnston, Miriam Zoll | New Republic | 
When news broke several weeks ago that tech giants Apple and Facebook were offering female employees elective egg freezing benefits, ...
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