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I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
Embryo selection company Herasight goes all in on eugenics
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December 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I wrote about the bizarre case of Herasight, the embryo selection company going all in on eugenics.
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TLDR, while #Deextinction didn’t happen the #hype, #fraud, #DarkPR and #Disinformation campaigns very much did 🧪 🐺
My look back at a year of claims about deextinction that didn't live up to the hype. No, the dire wolf is not back from the dead 🧪
Featuring @toriherridge.bsky.social @devoevomed.bsky.social @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social and @grenyer.bsky.social
www.newscientist.com/article/2505...
Featuring @toriherridge.bsky.social @devoevomed.bsky.social @nicrawlencenz.bsky.social and @grenyer.bsky.social
www.newscientist.com/article/2505...
De-extinction was big news in 2025 – but didn't live up to the hype
Biologists poured cold water on Colossal Biosciences’ claim to have brought the dire wolf back from extinction, and some worry the overblown headlines will undermine conservation work
www.newscientist.com
December 15, 2025 at 12:59 PM
TLDR, while #Deextinction didn’t happen the #hype, #fraud, #DarkPR and #Disinformation campaigns very much did 🧪 🐺
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⛔ To make things worse, on Friday EU countries are set to vote on patented GM crop deregulation, which will further farmers dependence on just a few seed corporations, and create more safety risks.
👉 Take action now against the toxic Omnibus on pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
👉 Take action now against the toxic Omnibus on pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
End The Toxic Pesticide Age
Do you want healthy food for you and your children? Do you care about biodiversity and clean water? Beware! The European Commission is currently proposing a series of measures to massively deregulate ...
www.pan-europe.info
December 15, 2025 at 9:21 AM
⛔ To make things worse, on Friday EU countries are set to vote on patented GM crop deregulation, which will further farmers dependence on just a few seed corporations, and create more safety risks.
👉 Take action now against the toxic Omnibus on pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
👉 Take action now against the toxic Omnibus on pesticides: www.pan-europe.info/end-toxic-pe...
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I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13
December 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja Lukić, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13
The refusal by Health Canada to reasses the safety of #glyphosate after the retraction of a "cornerstone" cancer study has critics doubting the agency's credibility: "I don't think any of us will trust anything [the regulator] PMRA is going to say." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/111/...
Ghost-written study backed Canada's most-used herbicide. Now retracted, it's raising red flags on approval process
The "cornerstone" cancer study that Canada's pesticide regulator used to approve the most common herbicide in the country has been retracted, raising concerns about Ottawa's plan to grant most pestici...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The refusal by Health Canada to reasses the safety of #glyphosate after the retraction of a "cornerstone" cancer study has critics doubting the agency's credibility: "I don't think any of us will trust anything [the regulator] PMRA is going to say." www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/111/...
Faking it without making it: The de-extinction disinfo campaign manager’s history of hype. How Colossal Biosciences’ CEO Ben Lamm keeps the hype cycle going. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
December 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Faking it without making it: The de-extinction disinfo campaign manager’s history of hype. How Colossal Biosciences’ CEO Ben Lamm keeps the hype cycle going. gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
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“The World Health Organization has recognized #glyphosate as a probable carcinogen while the #EPA continues to twist itself into pretzels to come to the opposite conclusion,” Lori Ann Burd, director of the Center’s environmental health program, told Common Dreams. #pesticides #PFAS
The Trump administration sided with Monsanto owner Bayer in its effort to kill thousands of lawsuits claiming its weed-killer Roundup causes cancer. The company has already paid out over $10 billion in damages to dozens of plaintiffs.
Trump DOJ Sides With Roundup Manufacturer Over Cancer Victims in Supreme Court Case
"This action shields chemical manufacturers from accountability by elevating a captured federal regulatory process over the lived harm of real people," said
www.commondreams.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“The World Health Organization has recognized #glyphosate as a probable carcinogen while the #EPA continues to twist itself into pretzels to come to the opposite conclusion,” Lori Ann Burd, director of the Center’s environmental health program, told Common Dreams. #pesticides #PFAS
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'Pretty ecomodernist in many ways' would be a fair, if mild, take on Regenesis. Whereas @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's latest Guardian article is totally ecomodernist by George's own definition of the term, as I explain in my essay. Money from Bezos to finesse carbon markets - what'll it be next?
December 8, 2025 at 9:21 PM
'Pretty ecomodernist in many ways' would be a fair, if mild, take on Regenesis. Whereas @georgemonbiot.bsky.social's latest Guardian article is totally ecomodernist by George's own definition of the term, as I explain in my essay. Money from Bezos to finesse carbon markets - what'll it be next?
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social strenuously objected to Chris labelling his Regenesis book 'ecomodernist'. But the UK's leading ecomodernist—Mark Lynas—also found Regenesis to be 'pretty ecomodernist in many ways'. More on how George has allied himself with ecomodernists here gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social strenuously objected to Chris labelling his Regenesis book 'ecomodernist'. But the UK's leading ecomodernist—Mark Lynas—also found Regenesis to be 'pretty ecomodernist in many ways'. More on how George has allied himself with ecomodernists here gmwatch.org/en/main-menu...
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Israeli military raids Palestinian seed bank - 8 people abducted & equipment & resources for food security and Food Sovereignty destroyed or stolen - including Palestinian heritage seeds. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/12/04/i...
December 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Israeli military raids Palestinian seed bank - 8 people abducted & equipment & resources for food security and Food Sovereignty destroyed or stolen - including Palestinian heritage seeds. www.gmfreeze.org/2025/12/04/i...
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Congratulations to @lizagrandia.bsky.social, winner of the LACS-SHA 2025 Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize!
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Congratulations to @lizagrandia.bsky.social, winner of the LACS-SHA 2025 Murdo J. Macleod Book Prize!
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🚨 The seed bank of Palestinian peasants has been destroyed by Israeli occupation forces. This occurred on 1 December during a raid on La Via Campesina's member organisation in Palestine. It’s a direct attack on food sovereignty. viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
December 4, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨 The seed bank of Palestinian peasants has been destroyed by Israeli occupation forces. This occurred on 1 December during a raid on La Via Campesina's member organisation in Palestine. It’s a direct attack on food sovereignty. viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
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1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
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A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup--aka glyphosate--“does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted 8 years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed it, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.
Glyphosate safety article retracted eight years after Monsanto ghostwriting revealed in court
Credit: Mike Mozart/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup “does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted eight years after documents released in a court…
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December 4, 2025 at 4:19 PM
A review article concluding the weed killer Roundup--aka glyphosate--“does not pose a health risk to humans” has been retracted 8 years after documents released in a court case revealed employees of Monsanto, the company that developed it, wrote the article but were not named as coauthors.
Journal Finally Retracts Roundup Cancer Study Reliant on #Monsanto Research and Ghostwriting. Cornerstone of safety for decades: “the article’s conclusions regarding the carcinogenicity of #glyphosate are solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto.” www.commondreams.org/news/roundup...
Journal Finally Retracts Roundup Cancer Study Reliant on Monsanto Research and Ghostwriting | Common Dreams
A scientific journal retracted a landmark study on Roundup and cancer
amid ethical concerns involving Monsanto, which could impact regulations
and ongoing litigation.
www.commondreams.org
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Journal Finally Retracts Roundup Cancer Study Reliant on #Monsanto Research and Ghostwriting. Cornerstone of safety for decades: “the article’s conclusions regarding the carcinogenicity of #glyphosate are solely based on unpublished studies from Monsanto.” www.commondreams.org/news/roundup...
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☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF.
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF.
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
Bad deal reached on new #GMO deregulation file in EU trilogue. No risk assessment, traceability or labelling for 94% of new GMOs (NGTs): rapporteur Jessica Polfjard (the one grinning her head off in the photo) betrays intent of the European Parliament. Details gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
December 4, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Bad deal reached on new #GMO deregulation file in EU trilogue. No risk assessment, traceability or labelling for 94% of new GMOs (NGTs): rapporteur Jessica Polfjard (the one grinning her head off in the photo) betrays intent of the European Parliament. Details gmwatch.org/en/106-news/...
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"There were few people better placed to
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
I wrote an Opinion piece for @thelancet.com about James Watson. It's not an obituary - Georgina Ferry did that for them - but offers some thoughts on the problematic aspects of Watson's history.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
James D Watson: a cautionary tale
There was always going to be a complex reckoning in the obituaries of James D Watson
(1928–2025), the American geneticist who co-discovered the structure of DNA. For many
years, Watson was one of the ...
www.thelancet.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:15 AM
"There were few people better placed to
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
know why notions of race-based differences in intelligence
have no scientific foundation; to sustain his beliefs in the
face of that demanded not just ignorance but active denial." @philipcball.bsky.social in @thelancet.com
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The agreement reached yesterday is disaster. For most of the new genomic techniques: no traceability, no labelling of products, no monitoring of environmental impact, no coexistence measures, and full-on patent system that will kill the small seed breeders.
🌱New genomic techniques #NGTs
@envi.europarl.europa.eu team led by Jessica Polfjärd makes deal with @eu2025dk.bsky.social to pave the way for climate- & pest-resistant plants that give higher yields and require fewer fertilisers and pesticides.
Press release⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
@envi.europarl.europa.eu team led by Jessica Polfjärd makes deal with @eu2025dk.bsky.social to pave the way for climate- & pest-resistant plants that give higher yields and require fewer fertilisers and pesticides.
Press release⤵️
www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/pres...
December 4, 2025 at 7:44 AM
The agreement reached yesterday is disaster. For most of the new genomic techniques: no traceability, no labelling of products, no monitoring of environmental impact, no coexistence measures, and full-on patent system that will kill the small seed breeders.
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Crunchtime: tonight last planned negotiation on deregulation of new GM food (#NGTs): will negotiators Jessica Polfjard and Denmark allow for no safety, no consumer choice, but patented food? Save Our Seeds, FOEE, Solidagro and CEO handed over 500K signatures from citizens who want freedom of choice.
December 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Crunchtime: tonight last planned negotiation on deregulation of new GM food (#NGTs): will negotiators Jessica Polfjard and Denmark allow for no safety, no consumer choice, but patented food? Save Our Seeds, FOEE, Solidagro and CEO handed over 500K signatures from citizens who want freedom of choice.
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🚨 Big day in Brussels:
NGOs representatives handed over a 500.000 signature petition demanding that GM food remains labelled.
Tonight’s trilogue might be the last one on this file.
EU negotiators now have half a million reasons to protect transparency & consumer choice.
Fingers crossed. 💥🌱
NGOs representatives handed over a 500.000 signature petition demanding that GM food remains labelled.
Tonight’s trilogue might be the last one on this file.
EU negotiators now have half a million reasons to protect transparency & consumer choice.
Fingers crossed. 💥🌱
December 3, 2025 at 4:29 PM
🚨 Big day in Brussels:
NGOs representatives handed over a 500.000 signature petition demanding that GM food remains labelled.
Tonight’s trilogue might be the last one on this file.
EU negotiators now have half a million reasons to protect transparency & consumer choice.
Fingers crossed. 💥🌱
NGOs representatives handed over a 500.000 signature petition demanding that GM food remains labelled.
Tonight’s trilogue might be the last one on this file.
EU negotiators now have half a million reasons to protect transparency & consumer choice.
Fingers crossed. 💥🌱
Influential study on #glyphosate safety retracted 25 yrs after publication. The widely cited study, which concluded glyphosate was safe, has just been officially disavowed. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by #Monsanto. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Influential study on glyphosate safety retracted 25 years after publication
A 2000 study that concluded the well-known herbicide glyphosate was safe, widely cited since then, has just been officially disavowed by the journal that published it. The scientists are suspected of ...
www.lemonde.fr
December 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Influential study on #glyphosate safety retracted 25 yrs after publication. The widely cited study, which concluded glyphosate was safe, has just been officially disavowed. The scientists are suspected of having signed a text actually prepared by #Monsanto. www.lemonde.fr/en/environme...
Trump administration sides with Bayer. "MAHA voters chose this administration because they were tired of watching captured regulators sign off on chemicals poisoning their families, not because they wanted Washington to hand pesticide giants a liability shield." www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/trum...
Trump administration sides with Bayer in seeking Supreme Court ruling on Roundup fight
Bayer, the beleaguered maker of Roundup herbicide, has garnered the support of the US Department of Justice in its court battle to turn back a tide
www.thenewlede.org
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Trump administration sides with Bayer. "MAHA voters chose this administration because they were tired of watching captured regulators sign off on chemicals poisoning their families, not because they wanted Washington to hand pesticide giants a liability shield." www.thenewlede.org/2025/12/trum...
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🎥Two Danish short films are asking the questions Brussels would rather skip
Right now, the EU is negotiating whether to deregulate gene-edited plants – current proposals are without risk assessment and no labeling on food. 🕵️
These films take a step back and ask: Do we actually need this? ✨🌻
Right now, the EU is negotiating whether to deregulate gene-edited plants – current proposals are without risk assessment and no labeling on food. 🕵️
These films take a step back and ask: Do we actually need this? ✨🌻
December 3, 2025 at 9:06 AM
🎥Two Danish short films are asking the questions Brussels would rather skip
Right now, the EU is negotiating whether to deregulate gene-edited plants – current proposals are without risk assessment and no labeling on food. 🕵️
These films take a step back and ask: Do we actually need this? ✨🌻
Right now, the EU is negotiating whether to deregulate gene-edited plants – current proposals are without risk assessment and no labeling on food. 🕵️
These films take a step back and ask: Do we actually need this? ✨🌻
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Author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, @gdstone.bsky.social discusses how the Green Revolution didn’t speed up food production—but did fuel the growth of fertilizers and #pesticides. It also provided a heroic legend that is completely untrue! exchange.prx.org/pieces/595920
Glenn Davis Stone, PhD, author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, discusses the legend and unintended consequences of the Green Revolution.
Did you know that the “Green Revolution” is a cultural narrative that is rarely questioned? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn for her conversation with Glenn Dav...
exchange.prx.org
November 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Author of The Agricultural Dilemma: How Not to Feed the World, @gdstone.bsky.social discusses how the Green Revolution didn’t speed up food production—but did fuel the growth of fertilizers and #pesticides. It also provided a heroic legend that is completely untrue! exchange.prx.org/pieces/595920