Science Facts & Fallacies

Recent Episodes

Podcast: The story of a grape disease that decimated vineyards for 200 years—and how science helped stop it

Posted September 5, 2019 • 00:15:23

When Europeans began to colonize North America 400 plus years ago, they brought along the crops they knew how to grow so they could have food – things...

Podcast: Food snobbery vs the Impossible Burger: A skeptical look at health claims about plant-based meat

Posted September 5, 2019 • 00:30:14

Plant-based burgers have exploded in popularity over the last three years. Dozens of fast food restaurants and grocery stores around the US already...

Podcast: Do it for the kids? Federal children's health research grants fund anti-pesticide, organic food activism

Posted September 3, 2019 • 00:22:31

Few people would object to the government financing children's health research. But how would taxpayers feel if they were funding organic food activism...

Podcast: Food 5.0—GMOs, robots and the future of farming with agronomist Robert Saik

Posted August 13, 2019 • 00:28:51

Thanks to dramatic advances in technology, less than 2 percent of the US population works in agriculture today, growing the food the other 98 percent...

Podcast: AI-powered devices could cut exploding obesity rates. Will FDA rules hinder progress?

Posted July 25, 2019 • 00:29:30

The US has gotten fat. Since 1980, obesity in the US has climbed from a manageable 11 percent to somewhere between 30-40 percent. So-called lifestyle...