In France, the Council of State judges have decreed that mutagenesis is subject to the same regulations applied to genetically modified organisms (GMOs). In the past they were allowed to exclude all organisms obtained by mutagenesis from GMO regulations by rationalizing that GMOs insert a gene from another species into the genome of an organism while mutagenesis causes internal mutations. 

Congressional documents show Juul Labs met with eight Native American tribes about its vaping device. Native Americans still have the highest smoking levels in America, 22 percent versus 14 percent overall, so if this was 2015 I'd argue 'of course they should talk to tribes, everyone who smokes should be approached with smoking cessation and harm reduction tools' but the evidence is clear that Juul was not just appealing to smokers, they were creating new markets. And people who see racial profiling, legitimately or as an overarching conspiracy, will say they targeted vulnerable communities.

Measles has broken out on the California coast again, as it has done ever since discredited former doctor Andrew Wakefield tried to sell a new vaccine by claiming the existing ones causes autism.

When Science 2.0 was in its early days, anti-vaccine sentiment was a tiny fringe of religious people in one group and then a whole swath of people on the west coast in another. If you wanted to find a hotbed of anti-science sentiment, including beliefs about vaccines and organic food, you could take a compass and draw a circle around a Whole Foods.

Denby Royal felt like being a holistic nutritionist, selling alternative health treatments and products, was a legitimate choice. Royal believed in the products and "certification" in Canada (and the U.S.) is kind of a joke but people will rationalize it as reasonable either way. You can be a trainer in a gym or a hair stylist with just as much training - and no disrespect to either of those, but they are not qualified to give medical advice either.

You learn early that you cant say “treat," "cure," "heal" or "prevent” while suggesting that alternatives to medicine and cosmic diet advice do just that.

A giant swath of Americans who don't accept real medicine will somehow accept Asian folk medical claims. When Asians aren't eating shark fins, they are using them as unsubstantiated remedies, and either or both are what was the likely outcome for shark fins from Africa destined for Asia that were confiscated in Miami.

Some in the pro-science community are a little outraged that the New York Times ran an article in which the two authors wrapped Gwyneth Paltrow's Goop company in the flag of feminism' claiming evidence-based medicine is how the patriarchy keeps women down and Goop selling nonsense alternatives to medicine are as empowering as Shakira and Jennifer Lopez gyrating at the Super Bowl for free somehow is.

A vegan diet claims to hearken back to primitive days but proponents leave out that it wasn't by choice. Whenever possible, early man ate everything on and inside a bone they could, including brains.

The biological basis for that is evident when we consider that the brain is only 2 percent of our body weight but uses 20 percent of our caloric intake. Meat provides a calorie dense way to acquire the diverse nutrition we need.

If you raise your toddler on a vegan diet even now, you are likely going to end up in jail. Yet even in adults it is not healthy unless you offset the nutrition loss with supplements, a study shows. You can't get creatine, carnosine, taurine, omega-3, haem iron and vitamins B12 and D3 from a vegan diet.

The non-profit science NGO Genetic Literacy Project has released its latest educational initiative, the Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker and Index.

With the worldwide war on GMOs essentially lost by environmental lawyers, they still continue to hold back Europe but developing nations have seen through the false promises of western activists who have no solutions to poverty and food insecurity, only fear of the future. They are becoming hopeful about the future.

Chipotle was once the darling of the fast food community, a sign that McDonald's could do expensive American-Mexican fast food. Eventually, McDonald's sold it and then they started listening to what dreary marketing executives claimed people should want rather than what people actually want.

So they claimed they were going "non-GMO" because they wanted to be healthier junk food. The science community was initially perplexed. The consensus on GMOs is even greater than the consensus on climate change and GMOs are just one process, like mutagenesis or anything else labeled organic.

Then scientists got angry.