Kevin Folta
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Is Round-up in the air a health danger? (Answer: No)
Last week the anti-biotech websites exploded with the news: “Roundup Weedkiller Found in 75% of Air and Rain Samples, Gov ...
Misplaced fears of identical diseases links anti-GMOers to anti-technology fringe groups
GMOs, vaccines, chemtrails, fluoride, all have remarkably similar suites of disease "side effects" according to anti-technology critics. The same scare ...
Video: In search of the mystery glyphosate pathogen with Kevin Folta
Dr. Kevin M. Folta, from the University of Florida, discusses the case of Dr. Don M. Huber, and takes down ...
Massive data do not support Don Huber’s GMO/glyphosate pathogen claims
Anti-GMO figure Don Huber, Emeritus Professor of Plant Pathology at Purdue University, has stirred quite a bit of controversy as ...
Univ of Florida’s Kevin Flota faces attacks from anti-GMO activists
Kevin Folta, a professor and researcher in the University of Florida’s horticulture program, is facing another round of attacks from ...
In GMO debate, ‘right to know’ is empty mantra
The right to know is an empty mantra, three words that sound like they are pursuing freedom and information. However, ...
Podcast: Kevin Folta discusses Don Huber’s dubious claim of new superbug created by GM corn
The Food and Farm host Ray Bowman interviews Dr. Kevin Folta, associate professor and interim chair at the University of ...
Podcast: University of Florida geneticist Kevin Folta tackles cancer threats, pesticide abuse and other anti-GMO myths
On the science blog imprüvism, host Armi Legge tackles the GMO debate and interviews Kevin Folta, professor and department chair ...
Don Huber, controversial activist scientist promoting mysterious GMO superbug scare, has no data
University of Florida plant geneticist Kevin Folta challenges, in a public forum, the claims by anti-GMO scientist Don Huber that ...
China’s anti-GMO activists exploit fears of infertility
In a new blog post by Kevin Folta, interim chairman the University of Florida’s horticulture program, he describes the anti-GMO ...
Anti-GMO current spreads to China
In a new blog post by Kevin Folta, interim chairman the University of Florida’s horticulture program, he describes his experience ...
Hawaii activists smear campaign against independent Florida scientist Kevin Folta
"When you are an academic scientist that interacts with the public there are a few that are gunning to discredit ...
Malicious harm to an devastated industry
A friend sends me a picture from the internet. It is shown here below. It originates from a Facebook effort ...
Malicious harm to a devastated orange industry
"Are you ready for a tall glass of GMOs? If they move forward with GMO oranges, you need to know ...
Plant geneticist Kevin Folta explains GMO process in foods
When humans began to farm between ten and twenty thousand years ago, they took the seeds from their best edible ...
Kauai’s biotech battle: A field report from geneticist Kevin Folta
In Kauai, there is no reason for fear or action; no need for a bill and restrictive non-scientific regulation ...
Hawaii science ‘Swat Team’ engages public fears fanned by anti-GMO activists
Hawaii is in the crosshairs of anti-GMO campaigners. Two bills—one on Kauai and another on the Big Island—are being debated ...
Folta: EU is throwing euros down a rat hole in quest to replicate Seralini study
The following is an edited excerpt. Last September's lumpy rat study by Seralini et al certainly whipped the wildly uncritical ...
A geneticist attempts to replicate the famed “stunning corn” study
Anti-GM crusaders don't really want independent replication, that would expose their lack of evidence ...
When the anti-GE science sucks, you can have it both ways
The following is an edited excerpt. Dear Howard Vleiger, which one is correct? You have stood by your (probably bogus) ...
The collateral damage of tripe
The following is an excerpt. The latest attack on science comes from a report from renowned anti-GM activist Judy Carman ...
What if we discussed organic the same way as biotech?
It's easy it is to concoct a reasonable-sounding (but false) argument that organic crops must cause autism and diabetes ...
Himalayan sea salt promoted by activists as non-GMO has lead, arsenic, plutonium and more
The following is an edited excerpt. Yesterday I wrote about a website I found HERE and could not believe my eyes. It ...
Huh? Anti-biotech group confirms salt is definitely not a GMO
The following is an edited excerpt. Here's how we know that science is dead in the anti-GMO movement. The Non-GMO ...
Proposition 37.1: let’s start this conversation
In the shadow of Proposition 37's defeat maybe we can have a real conversation. Angry, uninformed discussion based on fear ...
What is transgenic biotechnology all about?
Today’s genetic engineering processes, especially those used on food crops, are the subject of much contentious debate. Much of that ...
The California GM labeling controversy joins list of historical food scares
Writer Kevin Folta takes aim at anti-GM activists in this piece, comparing the California GM labeling controversy with other food ...
Huh? Activists embrace new foods mutated with toxic chemicals and radiation, reject safe GMOs
Anti-GMO campaigners take no issue with new crops created by soaking seeds or tissues in toxic chemicals or subjecting them ...
