GUEST OVERVIEW: Jon Entine is the founder and executive director of the non-profit Genetic Literacy Project. GLP
was founded to challenge misinformation about innovation in human genetics—such things as ‘designer babies’ and gene therapy—and the agricultural technology biotechnology revolution
that has helped drive a 4x increase in food production over the past 75 years.
Our mandate has expanded in the face of fierce attacks by environmental and social justice advocacy groups who often put their implacable ideological beliefs ahead of the general good.
In recent years, with an explosion of disinformation on science, we’ve extended our mandate to cover the debate around climate change, global food security, the use of gene drives to rid the
planet of killer pests such as disease-carrying mosquitoes, synthetic biology, public health and vaccine hesitancy and artificial intelligence (AI). All are under degrees of attack, often from both
the left and the right.
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