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Food safety specialist joins MSU Extension

“I had the opportunity to develop a Food Defense and Biosecurity Extension ... progress and enhanced knowledge regarding food safety practices, the interface of food and health, smart packaging, ingre... read more

Backfire: How misinformation about wildfire harms climate activism (commentary)

That means that biomass facilities try to take the limited government funding for alternatives to fossil fuels, instead of those funds going to genuine climate solutions such as roof-top solar. In Cal... read more

ASU professor challenges conventional wisdom in invasion biology

The problem is governmental, industry, and conservation groups use the widely available body of misinformation regarding tamarisk in preparing legislation, executive orders, management policies and pl... read more

Panel offers advice on how to combat climate-change "neoskepticism"

A small panel of researchers has addressed what they suggest is a new threat to combating climate change—neoskepticism—where people believe ... such arguments boils down to differences of opinion rega... read more

NASA talks global warming

I have a lot of confidence in humans. We’re smart, and even better, we’re clever. There are solutions to global warming, and a lot of them are engineering and technology-driven — I think we can advanc... read more

A big call on imported pig meat

“This trimming raises a big question over what will happen to the waste. “The biosecurity issue is less about commercial piggeries, but rather, the thousands of pigs in backyards. MPI has no convincin... read more

Beware of Sleeping Giants Rudely Awakened

They also help the government, ensuring that its resources are concentrated on arrests of real criminals - not on ineffective, feel-good solutions advanced by political leaders anxious to reassure a f... read more

The Disneyland measles outbreak continues apace, and a woman refuses quarantine

They are misleading parents and catering to the scientifically-unfounded fears of others. Meanwhile, VaxTruth.org posted a highly misinformation- and fallacy-laden response to the Disneyland measles o... read more

Lessons Learned about Equine Welfare

And carriage horses—most cities have very strict regulations regarding horse and medical care, and yet there's always an effort to get rid of them." Lenz said several factors complicate our ability to ... read more

Towards a Healthier Debate on Health Reform

“[The town hall meetings are] not creating context in which misinformation on both sides can be corrected, and that’s the problem. We don’t have a deliberative process here taking place in public to i... read more

The 'mini ice age' hoopla is a giant failure of science communication

especially if we are to avoid the media frenzy highlighted by the ABC's Media Watch. If scientists, science organisations and media aren't careful, they can inadvertently end up promoting dangerous mi... read more

Water and waste a key focus at meeting

The committee were asked to allow for an extension on the pest management plan and an extraordinary item regarding waste service delivery ... The plan gives effect to the Biosecurity Act 1993, and it ... read more