Written by Nikolai Braun I grew up in the Washington, D.C. area watching Redskins football with my family. I haven’t seen a Redskins game since I moved away from the area in the early 2000’s, and now I couldn't name more than 1 player…
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Silencing Public Scientists
Written by Kevin Folta Last week I received a FOIA request that all of my emails bearing certain terms were going to be obtained and turned over to an activist group. US-RTK, a San Francisco-based activist group, namely Gary Ruskin,…
What Shiva can Teach us about Science Communication
Written by Kevin Folta We can learn a lot about people from not just what they say, but how they choose to say it. Communication scholars claim that something like 75% of meaning comes from non-verbal cues. Non-verbal cues are…
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Feeling Detached from Food Production? Blame Jethro Tull
Written by Steve Savage Many consumers today feel out of touch with how their food is produced and are disturbed by a lot of what they hear about it through their social networks or other sources of information. If it…
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A Misplaced Concern about an Apple
Written by Steve Savage As a consumer and as an agricultural scientist, I’m looking forward to the introduction of the Arctic® apple. It is possibly nearing approval by regulators in the US and Canada which could mean that supplies might…
A new meta-analysis on the farm-level impacts of GMOs
Written by Jonas Kathage Despite the fact that the global area of GM crops has grown rapidly over the past decade and now encompasses more than 170 million hectares it is still questioned whether current applications of genetic engineering in…
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The day I unwittingly became a pro-science activist
Written by Jeff Fountain Early this September I attended the National Heirloom Expo in Santa Rosa. It’s an event that’s centered around the pure food movement, heirloom vegetables, and anti-GMO activism. The speakers included Joseph Mercola, Jeffrey Smith, Andrew Kimbrell,…
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Don’t believe what Dr. Oz is saying about Enlist herbicide
Television personality Dr Oz has released a video about a herbicide called Enlist Duo. Virtually nothing in this video is accurate.
Sex and death in the cornfields, Part II- Why rootworms?
Written by Stephanie Gorski Hi, I started this series to explain a little more background behind the news and opinion articles you may have seen about Bt-resistant corn rootworms, with scary titles like Voracious worm evolves to eat biotech corn…
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Do GMO crops “foster monocultures?”
Written by Steve Savage Do GMO crops "foster monoculture?" This is a frequent criticism of modern agriculture. I have three problems with it: "Monoculture" isn't the right term to use to describe the relevant issues - its really about a…