Getting past celebrity and/or media-hype hooey:
- Wizardry REPRISED/REPOSTED (October 17 2012): The Wizardry of ‘Oz’ – a peek behind the curtain of the anti-GM movement - lots of celebrities, lots of politics and lots of woo-woo science behind the scenes of Dr. Oz (December 10, 2010)
- Before you decide to egg-liminate from your diet, read this (August 2012) – response to“Egg yolks are as bad for you as cigarettes”
- Dear Celebrity (April 2013) – challenging the PETA/Hollywood connection
- Organic not safer than conventional (March 2012) – response to media hype around organics/production
- Unravelling the hype around GMOs, Toxins and Unborn Babies (May 2011)
- Fear profiteering = big profit! - “…the press does not print “There was no wolf, after all” stories when alarms are shown to be false or overblown. The press and public remember the “Wolf!” story.” (April 2011)
- Questions or concerns about feedlots? – one vegan’s account of a US feedlot (June 2010)
- Ever heard of Food Inc.? - addressing the misinformation outlined in the documentary Food Inc. (April 2010)
- Organic doesn’t necessarily mean pesticide free Some excerpts from Alex Avery’s work on ag production methods (March 2010)
Mainstream/General Interest:
- Dear Pam (content warning: extreme sarcasm)
- Flores LaDue – First Lady of the Stampede
- On Grief: From ‘b’ to ‘c’ to ‘eff’ to ‘Why’? AND Into that good night…
- Organic not safer than conventional (Western Producer op ed piece by Rob Wager and me)
- Yeah, well – - - Conventional vs GE vs Organic (September 2010)
- And… Cuddles the Cow: crisis meets jurisdiction in three hilarious acts (July 2009)
Select Guest Blogs:
- Agriculture Every Day, Huffington Post Alberta, April 8, 2013
- Interest Groups Turn Supreme Court Case into a ‘Save the Seeds’ Myth, AgWest Bio Inc., March 1, 2013
- The Roles of ‘Rationality’, ‘Toxicity’ and ‘Partisanship’ in Interpreting Science Information, Biofortified, August 18, 2012.
- Before you decide to egg-liminate from your diet, read this, Realagriculture, August 15, 2012.
- From biocomposites to blush: how ag meets our daily needs in non-food ways AgWest Bio Blog, April 24, 2012
- Apathy & Online Activism: an impetus for science & science communication? AgWest Bio Blog, January 26, 2012
- How are you going? Report from Crop Update, Perth, Australia, Realagriculture, February 23, 2011
Research Stuff:
- Fifty Shades of Hype: myths, the media and misperceptions, March 1, 2013
- I smell a rat: Seralini, poor peer review and media manipulation, September 20, 2012
- Is Science Missing the Boat? Social media strategy is a must for science advocates, January 20, 2011
- The title says it all – - -The Wizardry of ‘Oz’ – a peek behind the curtain of the anti-GM movement, December 10, 2010
- When Bad Science Gets Good Legs, online activism, social media and poor peer review:
- Online Anti-technology Networks & Issue Advocacy
- A bit of research I am working on – - - Triffid Flax: The Triffid Flax Story: growers’ perspective (plus more), 2012
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