This Week's Topic:

GMO Foods

Since that day in 1998 when biochemist Árpád Pusztai claimed in an interview a rat had a damaged immune system because of eating a genetically modified potato, it has been a cultural controversy akin to climate change - except opposite sides use the precautionary principle for each.  The science community was critical because his speculation was not evidence-based while activists within the environmental community claim scientists are not worried enough about the implications of their work.

What's the truth?  What is the data?  Should philosophical concerns override the science ones?  We have the answers.
GMO Foods And The Precautionary Principle

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Directive For New E.U. Science Advisor Anne Glover: Make Europeans Less Anti-Science

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Genetic Modification Plus Big Pharm Equals Anti-Science Hippie Meltdown

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Forbes Takes Down Anti-Science Beliefs At NPR

Who has more credibility to the NPR audience, a scientist or someone who runs an organic yogurt...

Christie Wilcox Takes On Anti-GMO Scaremongering In The Atlantic

Ari Levaux, a food columnist, wrote about genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) in The Atlantic...

The Left Is More Anti-Science Than The Right Unless The Right Is More Anti-Science Than The Left

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Glow-In-The-Dark Kittens (and Monkeys! And Ovaries!)

I don't want to sound alarmist, but glow-in-the-dark animals are real-- and it's not just cute...

Lobbyists Undercut Global Food Security And Science Acceptance In Europe

Powerful lobby groups opposed to genetically modified (GM) food are threatening public acceptance...

Anti-Science Republicans Versus Anti-Science Democrats: The Comparison

Writing in USA Today, microbiologist Dr. Alex Berezow makes a statement sure to leave the militant...

Environmentalists: Save More Species By Accepting Science

Unfortunate subsets of some militant environmental groups believe that anyone who uses the land...

Bad News For Anti-Science Hippies - Food Prices Lead To Riots

Complexity theorists have some bad news for people who insist that unless it carries an organic...

15 Years Of FDA Stalling? Anti-Science Beliefs About Genetically Engineered Salmon

Sometimes the precautionary principle can run amok.   Anti-science people who don't accept...

Resistance To GM Crops

Large amounts of research and money have been invested in the development of transgenic, or GM...

Environmental Impact Of Lab-Grown Meat

Modern tissue engineering techniques could enable the development and production of meat grown...

Are Republicans Against Stem Cell Research?

A Democratic president banned the use of federal money for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research...

Progressive Head Spin - GMO Marijuana

Conservatives, who generally agree on the value of individual freedom, want the government to limit...

GM not the devil

In yesterday’s article on Science 2.0, Oh, Health Ranger...You Make Me Ill, said person...

Oh, Health Ranger...You Make Me Ill

Mike Rangers has a post called "14 signs that the collapse of our modern world has already begun...

'Organic' Food Lovers Should Avoid Raw Bean Sprouts

Sprouts are regarded as a healthy food source, rich with vitamins, minerals and non-meat proteins...

Why Do More Environmentalists And Organic Food Shoppers Believe Vaccines Cause Autism?

I enjoyed a drink one time with a fellow who was, even for science blogging, left of left.  ...