10 Reasons Why Being Anti-GMO Means Being Against Social Justice
Debunking Denialism,
Opposing GMOs means opposing sharing scientific advances with underprivileged communities, improved health and environmental…
Opposing GMOs means opposing sharing scientific advances with underprivileged communities, improved health and environmental…
Academics Accept Evidence, Activists Reject It Development of the empirical knowledge process In the 1660s, Robert Boyle…
There has been much concern voiced over the years about the potential harms to both human health and the environment of…
The costs of misinformation adversely affects everyone Science is not like ice cream. With ice cream, we all have our favourite…
The costs of misinformation adversely affects everyone Science is not like ice cream. With ice cream, we all have our favourite…
Matt Ridley: Against Environmental…
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be…
Doomsday thinking about the environment has been popular for decades. A rational optimist lays out the many reasons we can be…
Are GM Crops Contributing to Increased Rates of Female Education? The number one item on the United Nations’ (UN) list of…
Are GM Crops Contributing to Increased Rates of Female Education? The number one item on the United Nations’ (UN) list of…
Nope, eggs are not bad for you and coffee does not stunt your growth.
Agriculture is responsible for the production of a quarter of the total human-generated greenhouse gases. Growing food also…
FDA must no longer let organic food growers, manufacturers and sellers get away with lies Paul Driessen A couple years ago, the…
The cacao seeds used to make chocolate could be extinct by 2050, unless we act to preserve them now.
Our anti-GMO ecological anthropologists return with even more terrible arguments against GMOs. The post Correcting More Flawed…
Even more faulty claims against GMOs destroyed by scientific evidence. The post Correcting Flawed Armchair Objections to GMOs…
A review of the research on genetically engineered corn concludes that the benefits appear to outweigh the drawbacks. In a meta…
By Robert Wager, Vancouver Island University I’ve had the great pleasure of being a faculty member of the Biology Department of…
To cap off the PLOS ONE 10 Year Anniversary collection series, we decided to focus our efforts on the PLOS ONE Editorial Board …
While it’s the silver anniversary, GM crops have been golden A summary of the economic, environmental and human health benefits…
Nuevas: Gracias a unas personas que se han tomado la gentileza de leer nuestro escrito han provisto una serie de críticas…
Serie – “La ciencia de los OGMs” — Partes: 1, 2, 3 y…
Imagen que hago disponible al dominio público. El año pasado se constituyó en la Haya un tribunal para juzgar a la empresa…
Geoffrey A. Manne is Executive Director of the International Center for Law
It is unfortunate that so many journalists begin with a narrative and then back fill the facts and points necessary to tell…
Lawrence Krauss recently wrote an editorial in The New Yorker about how Lamar Smith, a congressman from Texas and chairman of…
Unnecessary anti-GMO panic highlights bankruptcy of current crop agricultural regulatory system.The post Rogue GMO wheat in…
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .[A] very…
The National Academies report on GMOs delivered a clear answer on the subject of to safety to humans, but less so on yields.
A recent report stated that acreage for genetically modified crops declined in 2015, does this mean farmers are moving away…
Professor Dame Anne Glover is Vice Principal for External Affairs and Dean for Europe at the University of Aberdeen. She served…
This is an article from 2010 but it is making the rounds again: 8 Reasons GMOs are Bad for You. The article is published on the…
A report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture examines the costs for farmers of producing only organic, GMOs, or non-GMOs.
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. There’s. . . a lot…
I hadn’t planned on writing about GMOs again today, but I received an e-mail from a listener of the SGU which nicely represents…
Opponents of GM foods no doubt believe they stand on the side of science, but independent evidence suggest they are in the grip…
Environment Photo credit: igor.stevanovic / Shutterstock Have you eaten organic food today? If you have eaten…
Cancer is the scariest disease, but not all causes of cancer frighten us equally.Read More
Could organic and GM farming step past the rhetoric and vitriol, and co-exist? The science says yes. The post A co-existence…
Genetically modified foods have been met with consumer backlash since they were first introduced in the 1990s. Recently, however…
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The natural-foods…
Neil Young: Grammy-award winning musician and GMO-hater? That’s the clear message from Young’s latest album, released earlier…
On Thursday, July 23, the “DARK” side took a hit. By a vote of 275 to 150, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1599, the…
Proponents of mandatory labeling of food products targeted U.S. agriculture’s increasing use of glyphosate, the key ingredient…
In the PLOS Biology article “A Meta-Analysis of the Impacts of Genetically Modified Crops,” researchers used data from 147…
Golden Rice grain compared to white rice grain in screenhouse of Golden Rice plants. Of all the contentious issues in plant…
There are some important issues nowadays in which scientists and laymen seem to disagree on. For instance, there's climate…
The most striking and at times frightening aspect of the March Against Monsanto was the unfocused vitriol voiced by the…
Reductionist science is not the answer to the problems engendered by a finite biosphere with a human population in overshoot.
A few weeks ago, the website The Naked Label published a picture of a vibrant, colorful mushroom. It was captioned with a…
Here’s the thing about nature: It will fuck up your shit.Read more...
Many people, particularly those embracing organic foods, worry whether GMOs might negatively impact the environment. What does…
Dr. Oz is in trouble again. Last week, ten doctors from around the country sent a letter to the dean of medicine at Columbia…
Remember those flagrant claims that Big Biotech made, that genetically modified foods were a big reason why the world was…
The massive damage humans have done to the natural world has provoked a backlash that could be just as dangerous, or more.
On a wide range of contentious issues, academics and researchers publish work that pretends to offer objective evidence, but…
Climate change is real and GM technology is safe, but those in denial want to undermine the public understanding of science…
There is so much anti-science propaganda out there I often feel like I am emptying the ocean with a spoon. Just today I was…
How do we know who or what to believe, seeing that GMO advocates and opponents make very contrasting claims and each point to…
According to key organic supporters, organic farming is no longer the idyllic image that the multi-billion dollar industry…
Hundreds of studies have been conducted to assess the impact of GE crops. A recent study, A Meta-Analysis of the Impact of…
At PLOS ONE, we’ve been compiling year-end lists to reflect on the most popular articles and research videos published in our…
UK’s chief scientist has said GM crops could provide plentiful food with less damage to the environment and at lower costs. But…
Last week European science reveled in landing a spacecraft on a comet, a triumph reported quietly in New Zealand. Canadian…
The Scientific Alliance discusses the ousting of the EU chief scientific adviser...
Durante miles de años el hombre modificó su entorno. Al igual que cualquier otro ser vivo, nuestra existencia creó presiones…
Durante miles de años el hombre modificó su entorno. Al igual que cualquier otro ser vivo, nuestra existencia creó presiones…
The relationship between the US public and genetically modified organisms is a bit ambiguous. Efforts to label GMO foods were…
It's estimated that there were once four billion American chestnut trees in the eastern US. Now there are almost none.
The largest GMO study in history, published last week in PLOS ONE, confirms that genetically modified crops have large…