David Warmflash | Genetic Literacy Project
The latest research shows how eating disorders, and anorexia in particular, produce a cascade of physical and mental effects, including direct alternation of the person's genes.
David Warmflash | Genetic Literacy Project
Based on the belief that female sexual dysfunction is more often upstairs than down, the drug flibanserin is being promoted for what's called hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), estimated to afflict roughly 1 in every 10 women.
David Warmflash | Genetic Literacy Project
Given the complexity of pregnancy, taking all evidence-based precautions against preterm birth is a wise course of action. But it may not be enough. The predisposition may lay in the fetus.
Ben Locwin & Kavin Senapathy | Genetic Literacy Project
This daily ordeal, among other irrational behaviors I suffered, was physically and emotionally exhausting, yet it wouldn't subside until I realized that life didn't need to be this way. In retrospect, I can't believe I endured this constant state of fear.
This account is one firsthand example of bona fide Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
David Warmflash | Genetic Literacy Project
It's called the "naturalist fallacy". Naturalist beliefs that seeds or foods developed in part by scientists, often working in laboratories, are "bad" while all things found in nature are good--spurs millions of people to fear what they eat and screen what they buy at the supermarket.
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Owen Patterson
Former UK environment secretary goes on the attack against what he says are modern Luddites: Greenpeace and the ministers of the European Union
Peter Hadfield | Potholer54
The British YouTube rationalist and renowned ex-BBC Radio 4 and CBC science reporter with a degree in geology debunks pseudoscience, creationism, climate change denialism�and now anti-GMO safety claims.
David Warmflash | Genetic Literacy Project
Lab created beef offers the possibility of ending the breeding of livestock for slaughter--and the ability to produce in vitro meat on future space colonies. Other than the questionable taste, what's not to like?
Arthur Doucette | Genetic Literacy Project
GMO Free USA has mounted a boycott against food companies for harmless trace levels of chemicals found in some of their products. The fulminations do a good a job at scaring consumers but not so good at educating them about science literacy and human health.
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