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2026 Credibility and Reputation Report

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Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker

Our interactive GLP global map explains the status of each country’s regulations for human and agricultural gene editing and gene drives.

GLP 2021 Annual Report

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Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim

Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim

Rebecca Roberts

As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot

Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot

Viewpoint: Here are the election-inspired Trump administration healthcare policy reversals expected in the coming months

Viewpoint: Here are the election-inspired Trump administration healthcare policy reversals expected in the coming months

Amanda Seitz, Stephanie Armour

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As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim

Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim

Rebecca Roberts

Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot

Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot

Viewpoint: Here are the election-inspired Trump administration healthcare policy reversals expected in the coming months

Viewpoint: Here are the election-inspired Trump administration healthcare policy reversals expected in the coming months

Amanda Seitz, Stephanie Armour

Farming, food, and chemicals: Post-midterms, the MAHA alliance between Democrats and MAGA Republicans is bruised but not cowed. What comes next?

Farming, food, and chemicals: Post-midterms, the MAHA alliance between Democrats and MAGA Republicans is bruised but not cowed. What comes next?

With technical barriers to human embryo editing falling, ethical concerns escalate

With technical barriers to human embryo editing falling, ethical concerns escalate

Rebecca Roberts

Viewpoint: ‘Just the flu’: Skipping your child’s flu shot could be a fatal mistake

Viewpoint: ‘Just the flu’: Skipping your child’s flu shot could be a fatal mistake

Zachary Yaksich

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on "attribution" science to target oil companies for global climate change

Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on “attribution” science to target oil companies for global climate change

Alex Trembath, Elizabeth McCarthy

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

Viewpoint: How CNN got played by environmental activists pushing a plastics scare and litigation agenda

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Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Does glyphosate—the world's most heavily-used herbicide—pose serious harm to humans? Is it carcinogenic? Those issues are of both legal and ...

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A New Transparency Tool from the Genetic Literacy Project

Who is David and who is Goliath in the lobbying battle over agricultural biotechnology? Activists? Agro-business? In a commitment to transparency, the GLP has mined 5 years of data to help the public understand the funding network that shapes the biotechnology debate.

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Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Science Controversies in the Media

AI medicine breakthrough: Could ‘good viruses’ created by AI, cure deadly viruses?

RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status

‘Gattaca stack’: The eugenic, technological push to ‘improve the human stock’

Uneasy allies: Are MAHA and American agriculture careening toward a breakup?

4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy

More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?

Blue, purple and red states passed or reaffirmed bans on trans females competing in women’s sports

Washington Post

Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next?

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Viewpoint—“Miracle molecule” debunked: Why acemannan supplements don’t work

RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status

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Farming, food, and chemicals: Post-midterms, the MAHA alliance between Democrats and MAGA Republicans is bruised but not cowed. What comes next?

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Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim

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4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy

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Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot

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More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?

Children’s Health Defense Press Conference

As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

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Viewpoint: Here are the election-inspired Trump administration healthcare policy reversals expected in the coming months

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Uneasy allies: Are MAHA and American agriculture careening toward a breakup?

Bayer Crop Circle in Golden Wheat

Making fertilizer from thin air: Bayer’s gene-editing innovation could dramatically cut chemical fertilizer use in growing food

Microscopic IVF Egg Injection

With technical barriers to human embryo editing falling, ethical concerns escalate

AI medicine breakthrough: Could ‘good viruses’ created by AI, cure deadly viruses?

RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status

‘Gattaca stack’: The eugenic, technological push to ‘improve the human stock’

Uneasy allies: Are MAHA and American agriculture careening toward a breakup?

As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim

4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy

More than 80% of ‘pro-science’ candidates were swept into office. Will they have a policy impact?

Blue, purple and red states passed or reaffirmed bans on trans females competing in women’s sports

Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next?

GLP Library Search

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Ag Biotech Comms

Ag Gene Editing

Agricultural Regs & Ethics

Alternative Proteins

Ancestry & Evolution

Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy

Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy

Newly approved GMO chestnut trees planted across from the White House are stirring debate

We are entering a new era of personalized medicine—if you’re white

Artificial Intelligence

'Gattaca stack': The eugenic, technological push to 'improve the human stock'

‘Gattaca stack’: The eugenic, technological push to ‘improve the human stock’

4 key ways the Blue Wave will upend science policy

Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next?

Brain / Neuroscience

Chemical Controversies

$7.35 billion PFAS settlement: 3M to pay people who blame health problems on ‘forever chemicals’ phased out of firefighting foam for more than 20 years

$7.35 billion PFAS settlement: 3M to pay people who blame health problems on ‘forever chemicals’ phased out of firefighting foam for more than 20 years

How climate change is driving increased pesticide usage

Farming, food, and chemicals: Post-midterms, the MAHA alliance between Democrats and MAGA Republicans is bruised but not cowed. What comes next?

Viewpoint: Democratic tsunami: As the red tide recedes, here are the most likely shifts in food and agricultural policy

Viewpoint: Democratic tsunami: As the red tide recedes, here are the most likely shifts in food and agricultural policy

How climate change is driving increased pesticide usage

Farming, food, and chemicals: Post-midterms, the MAHA alliance between Democrats and MAGA Republicans is bruised but not cowed. What comes next?

RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status

RFK Jr.’s collapsing legacy: U.S. poised to lose measles elimination status

‘Gattaca stack’: The eugenic, technological push to ‘improve the human stock’

As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure

Human Gene Editing

Medical Misinformation

Medical Regs & Ethics

Personalized Medicine

Synthetic Biology

Sustainability & Climate

Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next?

Voters hate AI data centers, yet they are crucial to establishing a critical technology. So what’s next?

How climate change is driving increased pesticide usage

Gene editing once viewed with suspicion by UK farmers, upwards of 90% now open to their sustainability benefits