GLP Weekly: How to stop social media disinformation campaigns against GMO crops; Does the genetics revolution unsettle you? Here's a guide; and more!

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‘Natural health’ and conspiracy sites exploit social media to fester opposition to GMO crops. Here’s a study about what can be done to stop it Cameron English Does the ‘genetics revolution’ unsettle you? Here is a guide, and reasons to be hopeful Ricki Lewis Podcast: Sneaky sheep, substandard stallions and sperm wars Kat Arney, Lewis Hou, Patrick Sharman, Peter Ellis, Susan Johnston, Wendy Bickmore Billion-year-old microbes could give us new food, fuel sources—if we can figure out how to use them Kostas Vavitsas Fritz Haber and Carl Bosch: The chemists who revolutionized fertilizer production, changing agriculture forever Alexander Hammond Brave new world? Why the public might be ready for gene-edited babies Kristen Hovet Viewpoint: How a small group of scientists and pliable media created a ‘catastrophe narrative’ that hurts bees and farmers Henry Miller How a fetus’s developing brain may be shaped by mom’s mental state Catherine Monk, Jyoti Madhusoodanan Podcast: How activists and politicians derailed South Australia’s attempt to embrace GMO crops Caroline Rhodes, Kevin Folta DNA databases as crime deterrent: As more ‘cold cases’ are solved, are would-be criminals growing wary? Oscar Schwartz