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The Cognitive Roots of Genophobia
Will Saletan linked this just-published analysis by Razib Khan. Razib has been researching and thinking carefully about the sources of anti-GMO sentiments. …GMO has not become culturally polarizing....
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Big Organic mounts Asymmetric Warfare attack on public scientist Kevin Folta
There are misrepresentations in this PLOS BIOLOGUE guest post that need to be promptly corrected. Dr. Folta has written a brief analysis of these issues at Science20 Transparency Weaponized Against...
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Jimmy Botella: Waiter, there is a gene in my soup!
Our second nomination today for Best Biotech Talks is Jimmy Botella, Professor of Plant Biotechnology, School of Agriculture and Food Sciences at the University of Queensland. Jimmy has no pretensions,...
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Anti-GMO Charles Benbrook has lost his Washington State University affiliation
Some very good news today — Genetic Literacy Project has just published an in-depth profile of Benbrook – who is widely quoted as an “independent scientist” warning of the dangers of genetic...
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Important transparency questions for Thacker and Seife
This is a small inquiry about “Who Benefits?”. Regarding the now-retracted PLOS blog piece “The Fight Over Transparency: Round Two“, I have been puzzling over the authors’ motivations. Who benefits...
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Open letter from 21 top European plant scientists to decision makers in Europe
The de facto moratorium on transgenic plant approvals has been detrimental for applied plant science and has effectively eliminated possibilities for publicly funded scientists and small companies to...
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“I’ve been FOIA ed”: Alison Van Eenennaam on being in crosshairs of anti-GMO...
Alison Van Eenennaam, Ph.D. is an animal geneticist and Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Animal Science at the University of California, Davis. Dr. Alison Van Eenennaam has been...
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New York Times: Your reporting fed McCarthyite attacks on Kevin Folta
Jean Goodwin is an expert in rhetoric at Iowa State. Dr. Goodwin specializes in achieving useful communication among parties who deeply disagree. My primary research/teaching focus is in argumentation...
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Blackmail by Quacks
Trevor Butterworth examines how Vani Hari (aka Food Babe) blackmails companies like the maker of Budweiser in an excellent essay: Quackmail: Why You Shouldn’t Fall For The Internet’s Newest Fool, The...
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Mary Magnan on the NEJM Fail — the Benbrook & Landrigan Non-Disclosures
Dear Reader, if you are a subscriber to The New England Journal of Medicine then I hope you will take the time to carefully read the preceding guest post by Dr. Mary Magnan. I anticipate that you will...
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