Attacking pesticides is sexy. Many activists, lawyers and journalists have made careers out of propagating a simple, compelling narrative about the chemicals farmers use to produce our food.
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It seems not a month goes by without an “investigative reporter” somewhere on the internet warning about the dangers of pesticides and the EPA's failure to do anything about them.
The Conversation bills itself as a website designed to “Unlock the knowledge of researchers and academics to provide the public with clarity and insight into society’s biggest problems.” Their s
For the better part of six years, anti-GMO groups circled the wagons around a single message: the weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) causes cancer, specifically Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma (NHL).
California-based law firm Baum Hedlund was founded by Church of Scientology lawyers and has had close ties to the cult for decades.
Social media platforms shouldn't be trusted to censor scientific “misinformation.” As we've reported in recent months, such efforts by tech companies like Facebook are crippled by partisanship and double standards.
This is not a new issue. In fact, the ACSH has published numerous articles on this over the years, beginning in 2017.
If you remember your high-school US history class, you know that prohibition was an abject failure.
“Are GMOs making you sick?” That's the question posed by the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) in an alarming April 2
Introduced in the 1990s, crops genetically engineered (GE) to withstand exposure to the weed killer glyphosate (Roundup) were a game-changer for agriculture.