Kevin Folta
@kevinfolta.bsky.social
Professor, plant biology, molecular biologist, fruit grower, science communicator, cancellation survivor. Good Trouble. Strategic communication coach, Talking Biotech podcast host. Old new dad. Farmer's husband. Best booth at farmers market.
You know this “Health Freedom”thing has traction when the lunch meat rejects medical intervention.
November 6, 2025 at 11:58 PM
You know this “Health Freedom”thing has traction when the lunch meat rejects medical intervention.
Taking red dye out of Swedish Fish will not make America healthy when 95% don't get enough dietary fiber. Zbiotics has created a genetically engineered probiotic that converts free simple sugars into branched fiber chains. Talking Biotech Podcast #481 podcasts.apple.com/.../a-biotec....
November 2, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Taking red dye out of Swedish Fish will not make America healthy when 95% don't get enough dietary fiber. Zbiotics has created a genetically engineered probiotic that converts free simple sugars into branched fiber chains. Talking Biotech Podcast #481 podcasts.apple.com/.../a-biotec....
Our community of Warsaw expatriates was ecstatic, until they hit the fine print.
October 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Our community of Warsaw expatriates was ecstatic, until they hit the fine print.
This week's Talking Biotech Podcast is an interview with Dr. Jonathan Howard about his new book, "Everyone Else is Lying to You". We discuss the rise of the bad science and fake scientists now running the CDC and public health. #COVID19 #Vaccination podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
October 13, 2025 at 3:59 AM
This week's Talking Biotech Podcast is an interview with Dr. Jonathan Howard about his new book, "Everyone Else is Lying to You". We discuss the rise of the bad science and fake scientists now running the CDC and public health. #COVID19 #Vaccination podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...
That's not how science works.
October 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
That's not how science works.
Sometimes you gotta take two old dead thermalcyclers and make one good one. Yep, those Big Ag Shill bucks just keep rolling in!! #science2025
September 23, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Sometimes you gotta take two old dead thermalcyclers and make one good one. Yep, those Big Ag Shill bucks just keep rolling in!! #science2025
I keep getting ads for walk-in showers. I don't know that I've ever entered one any other way. Am I missing something?
September 18, 2025 at 3:26 AM
I keep getting ads for walk-in showers. I don't know that I've ever entered one any other way. Am I missing something?
Talking Biotech Podcast #487 covers the recent controversial Veritasium video and corrects the egregious mistakes. Please listen and share. We need to fix this, as this "educational" video just made it harder for us to teach science. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
September 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Talking Biotech Podcast #487 covers the recent controversial Veritasium video and corrects the egregious mistakes. Please listen and share. We need to fix this, as this "educational" video just made it harder for us to teach science. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
My corrections to the @veritasium episode on #glyphosate. So many mistakes, using anti-biotech sources for information, ignoring the actual data. Many have asked me to do this. This week's Talking Biotech Podcast. #478 share.transistor.fm/s/c65ea0e7
September 6, 2025 at 11:55 PM
My corrections to the @veritasium episode on #glyphosate. So many mistakes, using anti-biotech sources for information, ignoring the actual data. Many have asked me to do this. This week's Talking Biotech Podcast. #478 share.transistor.fm/s/c65ea0e7
Unintended effects of the #HPV and #Shingles #vaccines revealed from big data sets! Sounds awful? But new reports are showing unexpected **benefits** of vaccination, from decreased dementia, cancer, & cardiovascular risk. This week's talking biotech podcast #473. share.transistor.fm/s/26f60919
August 26, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Unintended effects of the #HPV and #Shingles #vaccines revealed from big data sets! Sounds awful? But new reports are showing unexpected **benefits** of vaccination, from decreased dementia, cancer, & cardiovascular risk. This week's talking biotech podcast #473. share.transistor.fm/s/26f60919
It is not about crime. It is about punishing the businesses in these places, punishing the people that dared to not vote for Der Leader. Mail in ballots will end, there will be a heavy military presence at polls in the name of "security" to intimidate voters in these places. Watch for it.
August 24, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It is not about crime. It is about punishing the businesses in these places, punishing the people that dared to not vote for Der Leader. Mail in ballots will end, there will be a heavy military presence at polls in the name of "security" to intimidate voters in these places. Watch for it.
On the Talking Biotech podcast series we are discussing the 10 year anniversary of @IARCWHO 's landmark classification of #glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. I'm looking for anyone that wants to defend this classification and the literature suggesting undue risk from this product. DM me!
August 6, 2025 at 2:31 PM
On the Talking Biotech podcast series we are discussing the 10 year anniversary of @IARCWHO 's landmark classification of #glyphosate as a probable carcinogen. I'm looking for anyone that wants to defend this classification and the literature suggesting undue risk from this product. DM me!
She's not too sure about how this works. I wish that I could buy her a beer and a pizza and draw it out on napkins. It breaks my heart that something as elegant as mRNA is so poorly understood.
August 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
She's not too sure about how this works. I wish that I could buy her a beer and a pizza and draw it out on napkins. It breaks my heart that something as elegant as mRNA is so poorly understood.
10 years after #glyphosate controversial @IARCWHO classification @zaruk describes the backstory of the decision- the legal collusion, suppression of evidence, and payoffs usually pinned on Big Ag interests. Read @the_firebreak or listen to us discuss here. open.spotify.com/episode/7trt...
August 3, 2025 at 2:09 PM
10 years after #glyphosate controversial @IARCWHO classification @zaruk describes the backstory of the decision- the legal collusion, suppression of evidence, and payoffs usually pinned on Big Ag interests. Read @the_firebreak or listen to us discuss here. open.spotify.com/episode/7trt...
10 Years Ago This Week: @IARCWHO Monograph 112 is published, claiming #glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen". What have we learned about the process, the legal profession, and science? @zaruk writes 10 Lessons in The Firebreak; we discuss on the podcast. share.transistor.fm/s/792b32d8
August 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
10 Years Ago This Week: @IARCWHO Monograph 112 is published, claiming #glyphosate as a "probable carcinogen". What have we learned about the process, the legal profession, and science? @zaruk writes 10 Lessons in The Firebreak; we discuss on the podcast. share.transistor.fm/s/792b32d8
Wait, where have I heard this before?
July 30, 2025 at 5:22 AM
Wait, where have I heard this before?
Another giant in the history of biotech hhas left us. Dr. William Rutter was central in many seminal discoveries in biotech. He isolated the gene for insulin (from rats), and I remember reading his 1969 paper that demonstrated three major RNA polymerase activities. He also founded Chiron.
July 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Another giant in the history of biotech hhas left us. Dr. William Rutter was central in many seminal discoveries in biotech. He isolated the gene for insulin (from rats), and I remember reading his 1969 paper that demonstrated three major RNA polymerase activities. He also founded Chiron.
Talking Biotech 469 is about #pig domestication, when and where did these wonderful animals join the human experience? I speak with Dr. Jajing Wang from @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social about the novel approaches she used to answer these questions. share.transistor.fm/s/b5001d85
July 27, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Talking Biotech 469 is about #pig domestication, when and where did these wonderful animals join the human experience? I speak with Dr. Jajing Wang from @dartmouthcollege.bsky.social about the novel approaches she used to answer these questions. share.transistor.fm/s/b5001d85
Ozzy Osbourne has been consistently failing to die suddenly since he was 20, despite tremendous efforts.
July 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Ozzy Osbourne has been consistently failing to die suddenly since he was 20, despite tremendous efforts.
The first dragon fruit flower of 2025. 9pm and 1 AM.
July 23, 2025 at 1:47 PM
The first dragon fruit flower of 2025. 9pm and 1 AM.
My latest in @aspb Plant Physiology explains how innovations move to application-- with communication. The public should be demanding more technology, so why are they concerned or scared? An article about the needed strategy revision. #geneediting #GMO #scicomm academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
July 12, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My latest in @aspb Plant Physiology explains how innovations move to application-- with communication. The public should be demanding more technology, so why are they concerned or scared? An article about the needed strategy revision. #geneediting #GMO #scicomm academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...
Talking Biotech 467 - #Celiac safe wheat? Less immunoreactive wheat has been developed by
@UCDavisPlants using old-school mutagenesis. A scintillating talk with grad student Maria Rottersman.
@ASPB
share.transistor.fm/s/9419052e
@UCDavisPlants using old-school mutagenesis. A scintillating talk with grad student Maria Rottersman.
@ASPB
share.transistor.fm/s/9419052e
July 12, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Talking Biotech 467 - #Celiac safe wheat? Less immunoreactive wheat has been developed by
@UCDavisPlants using old-school mutagenesis. A scintillating talk with grad student Maria Rottersman.
@ASPB
share.transistor.fm/s/9419052e
@UCDavisPlants using old-school mutagenesis. A scintillating talk with grad student Maria Rottersman.
@ASPB
share.transistor.fm/s/9419052e