Steven Cerier

Feb 14, 2024 | quillette.com | Sean Welsh |Steven Cerier |Jon Entine |Andrew White

A review of Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie, Chatto & Windus, 352 pages (January 2024)Humanity is doomed. A 2021 Lancet global poll of 100,000 16-to-25-year-olds found that more than half those surveyed believed this. Dr Hannah Ritchie is a researcher at the University of Oxford and deputy editor of Our World in Data, and in her new book, Not the End of the World, she sets out to debunk this pessimistic view.

Feb 11, 2024 | quillette.com | Steven Cerier |Jon Entine |Andrew White |David C. Geary

Europe has just taken a halting step forward in its effort to modernize its increasingly outdated farming practices. While every major industrialized country in the world has been liberalizing its policies restricting new crop biotechnology, most notably CRISPR and other forms of gene editing, the 27 member states of the European Union have remained a scientific backwater in agricultural innovation for decades.

Feb 6, 2024 | geneticliteracyproject.org | Steven Cerier

It was not so long ago that the strident opponents of agricultural biotechnology were dictating the narrative over sustainable crops. They promoted insidious lies about their supposed dangers to human and animal health, and the environment — misrepresentations that have poisoned public perceptions about the value of this fast-developing technology.