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Jon Entine

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Jon Entine

@JonEntine

Dad, journalist, iconoclast, founder GeneticLiteracyProject.org - ag biotech/biomedicine/sustainability/ethics. Emmy-winning TV news producer, book author

Cincinnati

Joined March 2009

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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
May 10, 2024
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
@camjenglish
@camjenglish
May 10, 2024
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. 🧵 x.com/i/spaces/1jMKg…
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Apr 4, 2025
I must admit that I did not foresee how low RFK would go, just how hard he’d scrape the bottom of the barrel of antivax “researchers” to find someone to provide him with his long-sought study showing vaccines to cause autism. He chose David Geier. Even worse than Geier’s
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Jan 8, 2025
‘No link found between cancer and glyphosate’: Australian federal court voids all outstanding glyphosate cancer claims geneticliteracyproject.org/2025/01/07/no-… via @GeneticLiteracy
‘No link found between cancer and glyphosate’: Australian federal court voids all outstanding...
From geneticliteracyproject.org
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Mar 19, 2025
Honeycutt is bananas. Glyphosate isn't even carcinogenic in humans! Not ONE risk agency in the world has concluded it causes cancer in humans—ZERO. Age adjusted cancer rates among dogs have not gone up over the past 50 years. Dogs are living longer and before dogs weren't
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Feb 26, 2019
Activist group finds drinking 140 glasses of wine a day could expose alcoholics to potentially harmful levels of the herbicide glyphosate
Activist group finds drinking 140 glasses of wine a day could expose alcoholics to potentially...
From geneticliteracyproject.org
Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Nov 10, 2024
Not one independent science agency in the world believes that microtraces of glyphosate cause cancer. It’s not carcinogenic. Here are short summaries. Click through your the actual studies.
Kevin Folta
@kevinfolta
Nov 10, 2024
Replying to @josneezy1
Defense of agriculture: 1. Not carcinogenic 2. Not poison, except for plants at levels used 3. Not sprayed on food Crop plants treated early in development to suppress weed competition. Always glad to help.
Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer
From geneticliteracyproject.org
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Jan 30, 2025
“There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?” — Norman Borlaug
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Feb 27, 2025
RFK, Jr. has argues that genetically engineered crops “vastly increased” the use of chemicals in agriculture, a long-debunked myth that maligns American farmers and deceives the public about the safety of food. As HHS secretary, he wields significant influence over food safety
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Mar 17, 2025
There is a reason you are an unknown chemist. There is zero scientific evidence that glyphosate releases neurotoxins or in any way damages the brain. You literally made that up or lifted it from some activist brain dead website. More than 15 global risk agencies, including the
The Unknown Chemist
@TheUnknownChem1
Mar 14, 2025
Replying to @JonEntine
Glyphosate causes algae blooms in Lake Erie releasing neurotoxins into The drinking water- increased ALS hotspots all along its eastern shores
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Feb 23, 2025
Scientists believe it’s linked to over expansion of organic farming near urban areas. Organic farming is so inefficient—a 20%-40% yield lag—that over expansion in the organic sector has resulted in devastation of insect. As consumer demand for organic food has surged—especially
Jonny Paradise
@plantparadise7
Feb 23, 2025
Replying to @plantparadise7 @JohnStossel and 2 others
What’s happened to all the insects?
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Feb 1, 2019
Vitamin-fortified golden rice could debut in Bangladesh within 3 months geneticliteracyproject.org/2019/02/01/vit…
Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Jul 16, 2021
Organic pesticide copper sulfate—unlike glyphosate—is a carcinogen, kills beneficial insects, decimates soil, pollutes water. It also works. Here are political and science reasons why regulators give it a free pass geneticliteracyproject.org/2021/07/13/for… via @GeneticLiteracy
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Organic pesticide copper sulfate—unlike glyphosate—is a carcinogen, kills beneficial insects,...
Downy mildew is a scourge to wine grapes. Although the fungus causing it (Plasmopara viticola) was discovered in the southern US in the 1830s, it really
Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Feb 27, 2025
Is glyphosate a dangerously high toxic agricultural chemical. In his 2017 study “Long-term trends in the intensity and relative toxicity of herbicide use,” Andrew Kniss analyzed herbicide usage and associated toxicities over a 25-year period. The study found that Glyphosate, in
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Jon Entine
@JonEntine
Jan 20, 2024
Ironically, the most common pesticide sprayed on grapes is ORGANIC copper sulfate. Unlike glyphosate, which has a very short half life and is not toxic to beneficial insects or wildlife, organic copper sulfate kills beneficial insects and wildlife. In other words, your childish
Kevin Folta
@kevinfolta
Jan 20, 2024
There are no glyphosate tolerant grapes. It is not “sprayed on grapes”. If it was sprayed on grapevines they’d die, and certainly not produce grapes!! When you can get the easy ones right…
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