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Podcast: WHO was wrong about COVID; Pandemics make women cheat? Rampant fraud threatens organic farming

Posted June 18, 202000:34:08

Infectious disease experts have blasted the World Health Organization for telling the public that asymptomatic patients rarely spread COVID-19. Pandemics...

Podcast: Retracted hydroxychloroquine-COVID studies backlash; Obesity cancer drugs? ‘Unbiased’ Guardian takes animal rights money

Posted June 10, 202000:37:47

Two major studies which found that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine doesn't treat COVID-19 have been retracted. What does that mean for the...

Podcast: Pesticides prevent cancer. Growing drugs in GMO plants; battling diabetes with CRISPR

Posted June 3, 202000:38:14

Rapid advances in biotechnology could help prevent hundreds of thousands of diabetes deaths every year. Growing drugs in GMO plants is poised to cut...

Podcast: Fungi destroy $60 billion worth of food each year. Are natural biopesticides the answer?

Posted May 28, 202000:26:57

Food waste plagues both farmers and consumers. Americans throw out much of what we buy at the grocery store—roughly 133 billion pounds of food each...

Podcast: Cancer-causing baby powder? USDA cuts GMO rules; plant-based meat less healthy than you think

Posted May 27, 202000:44:58

In an effort to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, the USDA has revamped its biotech crop rules, sparking a new debate over how GMO and gene-edited...