Genetic Literacy Project

20 hours ago | geneticliteracyproject.org | Cameron English

Cameron English, Jamie Reed, Liza Dunn | April 24, 2025 XLinkedInFacebookRedditBlueskyThreads Listen to GLP Science Facts & Fallacies on iTunes, Spotify, Podbean and YouTube Podcasts. Or add the RSS feed to your favorite podcast app. Join our to get these stories and more delivered to your inbox. We’ve all heard the claims about gender-affirming care. The effects of puberty blockers are reversible; most experts agree that medically transitioning children is safe. Opposition to the transgender...

3 days ago | geneticliteracyproject.org | Cameron English

Cameron English, Jon Entine, Liza Dunn | April 21, 2025 XLinkedInFacebookRedditBlueskyThreads The public’s faith in journalism has cratered over the last two decades. “Americans continue to register record-low trust in the mass media,” Pew reported last October, with just 31 percent expressing “‘a great deal’ or ‘fair amount’ of confidence in the media to report the news accurately.” While many explanations for this stark trend have been advanced, the media’s loss of public trust stems...

6 days ago | geneticliteracyproject.org | Kevin M. Folta

There’s a new trope in town, a common mantra on webpages critical conventional agriculture: today’s fruits and veggies aren’t like grandma’s. They’ve all been wrecked by genetic breeding and pesticide use, and all the nutrition and taste are gone, gone, gone. It’s another overwrought claim in the quiver of contemporary anti-agriculture sentiments. The term “nutrient density” is a screaming alarm bell in social media, especially in discourse about the dangers of ‘industrial’ food and farming.

1 week ago | geneticliteracyproject.org | Cameron English

After years of flogging one chemical scare after another, NPR has abruptly changed its tune, defending Girl Scout cookies against MAGA activists who claim Thin Mints are toxic. This selective advocacy erodes trust in science for the sake of politics. Separately, MAGA’s culture war against mRNA vaccines has spread unsubstantiated nonsense, portraying the shots as dangerous despite their proven safety—lowering vaccination rates and possibly stifling the development of innovative cancer vaccines.

1 week ago | geneticliteracyproject.org | Cameron English

Cameron English, Jon Entine, Liza Dunn | April 14, 2025 XLinkedInFacebookRedditBlueskyThreads Sold to well-meaning California voters in 1986 as a means of protecting public health, Proposition 65 has undermined American science and industry, fueling litigation that squanders millions and stoking deep-seated suspicion of benign and even essential chemicals . The law empowers private citizens—specifically predatory tort lawyers—to sue any company that does business in the state for failing to...