Vermont AG demands safety data for GMOs and pesticides. Monsanto says "Go to...
WSJ: Game on.State Attorney General William Sorrell filed motions this week in several U.S. district courts seeking to compel Monsanto Co., DuPont Co., Syngenta AG and other seed firms to produce...
View ArticleWelcome to the Parent Company
Welcome to the Parent Company. I know you all are on your leisure hour, so let us begin. I would like to direct your attention to the pictorial timeline on the far wall:In 1930, the Plant Patent Act...
View Article200 Years of Wrongheaded Science and Engineering...
...have led us to this point of anthropogenic cataclysm. I say CATACLYSM because the domino effect will deliver its consequences to every corner of the planet in short order.Word have reached me, from...
View ArticleExtensive new report shows GMO crops safe, but not always as beneficial as...
The National Academy of Sciences has completed a comprehensive report on GMO crops.The National Academy of Sciences — probably the country's most prestigious scientific group — has reaffirmed its...
View ArticleGenetically engineered crops - safe for humans and the environment
For the past few years, I’ve posted nearly 50 articles here discussing the relative safety of genetically engineered crops. I’ve debunked myths. I’ve written about massive studies that show that they...
View ArticleGood news for your Friday evening - May 20, 2016
At times it’s hard to remember that good things are still happening in the world. If you would like some of the recent good news to lift your spirits, take a look at the stories below.Brewery uses...
View ArticleHawai'i Pesticide Ordinances In 9th Circuit Court
The implications of the court's ruling or rulings in this case will be vast.—Courthouse NewsThe Ninth Circuit Court Judges came to Hawai’i to hear four appeals to rulings that held that county...
View ArticleGMO labeling law – US Senate thinks they're smarter than scientists
I actually thought that the GMO denier arguments were petering out. I also actually thought I could focus on the vaccine deniers, since they’re like cockroaches, hiding in the dark. But I was wrong....
View ArticleThese 17 Senate Democrats Don't Want You to Know What's In Your Food.
Yesterday, the Senate cleared a procedural vote for a bill from Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Pat Roberts (R-KS) to block state GMO labeling efforts.The GMO labeling bill passed recently in Vermont will...
View ArticleMore than 100 Nobel laureates call for Greenpeace to end its opposition to GMOs
Over 100 Nobel laureates called for the end of Greenpeace’s opposition to genetically modified crops. They said that there is a very clear scientific consensus that modified crops are safe and in some...
View ArticleThe European Food Safety Authority's Squabble With Austria
Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...Austria has a bit of a problem with genetically modified crops. This is not an altogether surprising statement, as the nation has for two decades been...
View ArticleThe Antioxidant Purple Tomato
Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...At the turn of the decade, a new “scientific” fad diet began to spread across the internet and the nutrition community with claims of tiny particles...
View ArticleThe Alpha-Amylase Pea Vs. Weevils
Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...All crops have to contend with parasites and pests, whether of the insect or bacterial variety, and farmers have to create multiple methods to protect...
View ArticleThe FDA has approved genetically modified mosquitos to fight Zika-infected...
While Donald Trump dismisses public health issues like the Zika virus in Florida, the rest of the world works to find a solution to a very frightening problem. The FDA announced last week that it will...
View ArticleBook Review: Pandora’s Picnic Basket
Originally published: bioscriptionblog.com/...First published in 2000 under the title A Consumer’s Guide to GM Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings, this book was devised by scientist Alan McHughen...
View ArticlePrevent Zika virus with GMO mosquitoes – Frankensquito returns
Over the past few months, the Zika virus, a mosquito borne disease that is passed from the mother to the developing fetus, has become the focus of a lot of attention because of the danger it poses to...
View ArticleNew Study Released on Rate of Pesticide Use on GMO Crops
advances.sciencemag.org/…AbstractThe widespread adoption of genetically engineered (GE) crops has clearly led to changes in pesticide use, but the nature and extent of these impacts remain open...
View ArticleBayer Makes Deal With GMO Giant Monsanto
By Jamie Corey and Lisa GravesBayer announced this month that it plans to purchase Monsanto, the controversial chemical corporation that has been sued around the world over its products. Nowadays,...
View ArticleWillfully Ignorant Elitists Need to Stop Blaming the Left for the Anti-Vaxxer...
A theme that we on the left are far too familiar with is that of false equivalency. That is those in elite circles trying to find an equivalence between those on the left (or far left) and those on...
View ArticleBanning GMO crops would not just raise food prices—it would also add to our...
A new study out of Purdue University says that banning GMO crops around the world would raise the costs of food while also lifting the amount of carbon dioxide we put into the atmosphere.Using a model...
View ArticleGMO ban rejected in Hawaii
The Hawaii Tribune-Herald reports, a partial ban on genetically modified foods will remain invalid based on a ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday. The court ruled that the ban was preempted...
View ArticleJon Rappoport attacks GMOs and medicine – should we care?
For faithful readers of this diary, you know I try to keep focus on a small field of science – vaccines, GMOs, alternative medicine, and whatever strikes my fancy. I get all excited when a couple of my...
View ArticleHow Do You Like Them Apples? Genetically Engineered Apples to Hit Stores Next...
The first genetically modified apples sold in the U.S. are set to be released in stores next month. The apples, sold under the Arctic® brand will be released in 10 stores in the Midwest starting in...
View ArticleTrade renegotiation - is it really about jobs or GMO?
NPR Morning Edition was interviewing the Kansas GOP Senator Jerry Moran this morning on Wilbur Ross for Commerce. There was one very small tidbit that led me to understand what the GOP means by...
View ArticleGirl Scout cookies and GMO – going anti-STEM
Of all the icons of American life, buying Girl Scout cookies is one of the annual obligations of life. Americans buy these cookies from parents selling for their daughters, from uniformed Girl Scouts...
View ArticleAlternative facts – skeptics have been dealing with this for years
Alternative facts, what most of us would call outright lies or misinformation, are the new standard of truthfulness coming out of the Donald Trump administration. It started when Kellyanne Conway, one...
View ArticleThe GMO scientific consensus – it's unequivocal and overwhelming
I have been writing about the GMO scientific consensus for quite some time, because this scientific consensus for the safety of GMO crops is so overwhelming that it’s almost impossible to ignore. Let...
View ArticleSimplot's GMO potatoes get approval from the FDA and EPA
The AP reports, last week the EPA and the FDA gave approval to Idaho-based J.R. Simplot Company to plant and sell three varieties of genetically engineered potatoes. These potatoes had been previously...
View ArticleGMO food safety – they can't infect your genes
There are constant claims made about GMO food safety – everything, from causing allergies to causing cancer. Taking lessons from the anti-vaccine world, anti-GMO activists invent, based on very little...
View ArticleAnti-GMO, anti-vaccine activists – exactly the same
I naively once thought that anti-GMO activists only occasionally crossed paths with the anti-vaccine ones. Sure, on the Venn diagram of anti-science beliefs, anti-GMO anti-vaccine activists overlapped...
View ArticleBlog from Chile: Tree Plantations Save the Day! (or not...)
Anne Petermann is the Coordinator of the International Campaign to STOP GE Trees. She is attending (and spying on) the week-long Tree Biotechnology conference of the International Union of Forest...
View ArticleGMO vs non-GMO foods – genetically modifying crops for 10,000 years
There are so many myths and tropes about genetically modified (GMO) foods, much like the vaccine world, it's sometimes difficult to find out what is based in science, and what is not. Thus, I thought...
View ArticleGMOs and Monoculture
As a proponent of the use of genetically modified organisms I follow stories here on DailyKos that deal with the topic of GMOs. Recently I started noticing a pattern in the comment section. Instead of...
View ArticleBrazil approves Insect Resistant Sugarcane GMO
Reuters reports, Brazil has approved the commercial use of genetically engineered sugarcane. Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira developed it and made the application seeking approval in December of 2015,...
View ArticleGMO giant ordered to pay farmers $218 million after corn they engineered...
Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are hotly debated for a variety of reasons. But with the need to create larger and more robust crops always at a premium, GMOs are big business. Syngenta is one...
View ArticleGenetically modified gluten – delicious irony
Gluten free diets, for about 99% of the population, are a pseudoscientific food fad that has captured the guts of those who consume any food quackery that makes the rounds. However, for those who have...
View ArticleGlyphosate causes cancer? – large scientific study says no
One of the tropes of the pseudoscience world is that glyphosate causes cancer – but what does real science say? Well, numerous large epidemiological studies have yet to provide evidence of a link that...
View ArticleOprah is a science denier – that's a problem for me
A few nights ago, Oprah Winfrey, billionaire media personality, gave a speech during a Hollywood award show, where fellow millionaires and billionaires get dressed up in ten thousand dollar gowns and...
View ArticleThe other Russian attack: genetics in agriculture
Lost in last week’s excitement around gun legislation, Hope Hicks, Jared Kushner, and Trump’s trade war, was news of another disinformation war from Russia (with love, no doubt). The Des Moines...
View ArticleAuthors of CRISPR Study Reverse Themselves, Find No Danger
Last July, a group of researchers published a paper concluding that the gene-splicing technology known as CRISPR introduced large numbers of uinintended and unwanted mutations. Almost immediately the...
View ArticleMonsanto will cease to exist ... as 'Monsanto'
In 2016, German pharmaceutical company and pesticide maker Bayer announced it would purchase Monsanto for about $60 billion in cash. The merger is coming closer to being fully realized now, and NPR...
View ArticleCeliac disease and REAL gluten sensitivity are not caused by modern wheat
Although this blog focuses on vaccines, there are really so many myths and tropes on the internet that are based on misunderstanding science, pseudoscience, or just plain ignorance. One of those myths...
View ArticleGMO corn – safer and more productive than the anti-GMO tropes claim
As I wrote recently, the science is settled on "controversial" topics like vaccines and anthropogenic climate change. The science is also settled on genetically modified organisms (GMO) – real science,...
View ArticleGlyphosate and cancer – is it linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma?
A new study has been published that claims that the herbicide glyphosate is linked to an increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph tissue. Of course, once a study like this hits...
View ArticleQuit Hating Farmers!
Most progressives are supportive of family size farmers, but I’ve learned from a recent blog here and a few other forums some of you have a real ax to grind against farmers. Farmers are a minority like...
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The Carbon Victory Garden In The Anthropocene
Anthropocene: "the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment."In December 2018, I posted on LinkedIN...
View ArticleDNA in vaccines and GMOs are not going to turn you into Sasquatch
One of the more pernicious tropes in the world of pseudoscience is that DNA in vaccines GMOs are going to magically incorporate into your cells changing you from a human into a sasquatch with ears of...
View Article“Kiss the Ground”
Netflixhas a movie called “Kiss the Ground” narrated by the actor/environmentalistWoody Harrelson. The star witness is Ray Archuleta, employed by the NRCS (Natural Resources Conservation), a division...
View ArticleGMO Elephants?
With yesterday’s sad news that the ivory-billed woodpecker is officially extinct, I am somewhat heartened with the idea that sometime down the line, we maybe able to bring this species and many others...
View ArticleAmerica's Dirty Secret
America is a country with a very dirty, dangerous secret that it's managed to keep since 1996. I have spent over 20 hours digging online to discover that dirty secret.A chemical company called...
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