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Environmental Working Group, which promotes fear and doubt about the (non-organic) American food supply each year with its so-called Dirty Dozen list, tries to pretend they are not industry-driven. But they are totally industry-driven, they just engage in meaningless anti-science virtue signaling while doing so. 

They will happily take industry funding, as long as the company is one of the "socially responsible companies that offer a wide range of products and services, including organic food, personal care products and financial services." How do you know if you can pass muster as a socially responsible company for EWG? It seems all you have to do is give them money and your ethical sins are washed...

What would a world without GM crops look like? This is a science-fiction piece at the moment, but might come to pass if the fringe anti-biotechnology activists who call themselves environmentalists have their way.

The writer, Roxanne Palmer, posits this futuristic survey as a discussion between a well-respected academic, crop scientist Dr. Wayne Parrott of the University of Georgia (who has advised ACSH on matters of ag-tech in the past...

1. "Democracy Dies In Darkness" - that is the tagline for the Washington Post these days. And yet they promote darkness about science. Last Tuesday they were hosting a panel on "how science and technology are changing our food systems", yet what did they leave out? Anyone who knows anything about science or technology and food.

Instead, it was mostly organic salespeople and scaremongers.

There was a great deal of Internet objection to this obvious spin, a number of science advocates tried to get me on the...

Physicians often have to provide unwanted news; very few patients came into my office wanting and hoping for surgery. And there were always a few that wanted a second opinion, not because of my demeanor but because they didn’t like what they heard and wanted to hear something different, less surgical, more pill or watchful waiting. I always encouraged them to get that second opinion because part of the underlying problem was that they didn’t trust me, and without the magic of trust, surgery becomes a far more difficult treatment for both patient and physician. 

With that as a background, it should make sense that a study on how we accumulate evidence in making a decision caught my eye. I am sharing it with you because I needn’t look further for proof that my belief that second...