Dad, journalist, iconoclast, founder https://xitter.cf/t.co/VaCWq74soa - ag biotech/biomedicine/sustainability/ethics. Emmy-winning TV news producer, book author
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I've been writing about the fact that the press narrative on bee and insect health has been wrong since 2013--more than two dozen articles. Here's my first one, in Forbes. The entire campaign to ban neonicotionid insecticides and other crop chemicals because they allegedly kill insects in massive numbers is absolutely not supported by science...and never has been: forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2…
The so-called "beepocalypse" has always been a myth. @JonEntine, @DrLizaMD and I will explain why tomorrow at 12 pm central. Until then, here's some background reading to get you up to speed. 🧵 xitter.cf/i/spaces/1jMKgmvElBbJL
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PFAS “forever chemicals” are fast becoming one of agriculture’s biggest flashpoints. While they mostly reach farms from outside sources like biosolids, compost, irrigation water, and industrial contamination, farmers often bear the costs and the blame.
When activists, litigators and headlines push fear over facts, farmers need to know where the science actually stands. Thousands of compounds are lumped together as “PFAS,” yet the strongest evidence of health effects is limited to just a few, mainly PFOA and PFOS.
Join the Council for Agricultural Science and Technology @CASTagScience tomorrow, with paper authors @JonEntine, Mark McDaniel, and Thomas Redick, to discuss the new paper, “PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication."
🗓️ Friday, Oct. 16 | Noon–1 p.m. CT | Free
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Recent data show that roughly 78% to 80% of U.S. adults currently take at least one #supplement. But what does the science say about their benefits (or lack thereof)? Join @JonEntine, @camjenglish & @DrLizaMD to find out. xitter.cf/i/spaces/1oKMvNEBywYGQ…
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Between the environmental costs of data centers and the risks posed by rogue agents, #AI technology seems to be at a crossroads that will shape the future. Join the debate with @JonEntine, @camjenglish & @DrLizaMD xitter.cf/i/spaces/1qKVmyLZkYWxB…
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Data centers are now a volatile flashpoint in American politics, and AI leaders are urging caution around #AI development to prevent ... human extinction. What's going on in AI? Join @JonEntine, @camjenglish & @DrLizaMD to find out. #DataCenters #FrontierAI xitter.cf/i/spaces/1qKVmyLZkYWxB…
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During his confirmation hearing, #RFKJr denied having any ongoing connection to @ChildrensHD, an #antivax group that filed dozens of #lawsuits against #vaccine mandates under his leadership. Children's Health Defense frames the keynote as a homecoming, welcoming “our founder back to the CHD stage.” geneticliteracyproject.org/2…
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To satisfy activists, museums are presenting Native American creation myths as history and reburying 12,000-year-old human skeletons. Even everyday commercial objects from the 20th century are now treated as cultural patrimony requiring reburial. All this, while critical research remains stalled.
Anthropologist Elizabeth Weiss joins @camjenglish @JonEntine, and @DrLizaMD to discuss how progressive politics is leaving knowledge buried in the past. @eweissunburied
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This is on @SenBillCassidy as much as it is on @SecKennedy and the incompetent antivaxxers he's hired at HHS. Senator, YOU voted to advance RFK Jr.'s nomination out of YOUR committee, and YOU voted to confirm him. YOU are as much to blame as he is.
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The #FDA is weighing a “competency-based approach” to evaluating AI-powered #medical devices, modeled on how doctors get credentialed. “You can’t regulate generative #AI the way you regulate pills and cardiac pacemakers,” said @DavidBlumenthal, a professor at the @HarvardChanSPH. geneticliteracyproject.org/2…
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Selective Pressure, Selective Silence quillette.com/2026/06/10/sel… by @JonEntine Patrick Whittle via @Quillette
There are no Republican conservatives any more. The right has become hopelessly and irredeemably infected with Trumpism. Most of today’s so-called conservatives are mere enablers. They are lackeys to the most corrupt politician—by miles—in the history of the U.S. Almost every day there is a fresh report of Trump’s self-serving decisions. He plays by no rules but his own. For him everything is transactional—and then he screws people who try to play his game. Republicans today have devolved into the very opposite of patriots. And I write this as someone who was a member of a conservative think tank for 15 years. Democrats have gone astray ideologically for sure but at least they are not fundamentally poisoned as is today’s right. It will take a decade—if ever--to purge that stink from the party—if conservatives even have the will.
Isn't this just the same postmodernity we've been plagued w since Obama? Nothing is true, and relativity and subjectivism don't argue facts/evidence rationally; they just assert moral superiority (if they're on the left). The foundational assumption is that Democrats (the left) are invariably right; Republicans (and conservatives) are always wrong.
From a postmodern POV, there's nothing to argue about; there's just cretins who need to be confronted w their anachronistic views and attitude, and put in their proper, inferior place.
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The upcoming #Tylenol litigation is a test case: will courts screen scientific claims carefully, or allow made-for-litigation science to shape juror opinions and public health debates? Join @jonentine, @camjenglish, and @DrLizaMD to discuss. #MassTort xitter.cf/i/spaces/1DGLddXOwNMGm…
RT @GeneticLiteracy: “It’s probably the biggest water quality problem in the world,” said environmental engineer @SteveChapra of @TuftsUniv…
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'Timothy Leary's “turn on, tune in, drop out” message helped establish him as a counterculture figure, but his primary concern wasn’t carefully testing potential #PTSD treatments,' writes @camjenglish.
Join Cameron and medical toxicologist @DrLizaMD on the latest Facts & Fallacies podcast as they examine #RFKJr's claims about #ibogaine. geneticliteracyproject.org/2…
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Junk Science & Mass Tort.
Come join @JonEntine, @camjenglish & me tomorrow to discuss!
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'For much of the postwar era, it was widely assumed that natural selection had largely ceased to shape human populations and that any evolution during the past ten millennia was too slow or too slight to detect,' write @jonentine and Patrick Whittle for @Quillette.
'A landmark study published in Nature last April by Harvard geneticist David Reich and colleagues has complicated that narrative. ... While the paper itself is technical and cautious, its implications are explosive. ... It has already dragged an older, more troubling word back into the discussion—“race”.' geneticliteracyproject.org/2…
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"The research that refutes [Trump's] frankly false statement does not get the same amplification or the same publicity that #disinformation did, so I think it’s a big problem, unfortunately,” said Dr. @KamranAbbasi, editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal. @bmj_latest #Tylenol #Misinformation
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