GMO

Count vodka maker Smirnoff among the latest companies to jump aboard the anti-science bandwagon.

There's no nice way to put this. Academia is in the midst of self-destructing, not just in the United States but worldwide.

There's a lot of money to be made in kowtowing to the latest dietary fads and unsubstantiated health scares.

The regulatory concerns about genetic modification of animals that I wrote about a while ago have moved towards a Congressional spotlight.

Monsanto, perhaps to rebrand itself, and certainly to remain a leader in agricultural biotech has helped establish and fund Pairwise Plants a start-up using CRISPR-Cas9 technologies to modify seeds.

Reputations are a funny thing. It takes years to build them but mere seconds to destroy them.

We were recently contacted by a concerned group of pro-science scholars who wants to counter the unscientific arguments made by anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva. We made this handy flyer for them.

I have been a long-time reader of Pacific Standard (once called Miller-McCune), a publication that tries to be the West Coast equivalent of The Atlantic.

There is something nauseatingly ingenious about the Huffington Post.

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