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Earlier this year, two writers at Mother Jones noted:
It’s easy to find bad information about the safety of vaccines on the internet.
True, that. It’s also easy to find bad information about the safety of GMOs on the internet.
What puzzles me is why liberal outlets recognize "bad information" about vaccines but not GMOs. (Grist is now a notable exception, after publishing skewed information on GMOs for years.) For let’s be clear: the science on GMOs is as solid and authoritative as it is on

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Take two kids, the same age, who grew up in the same city. Which one is more likely to go to jail … or college?

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If you take your motorbike rides seriously enough to want a smart heads-up display in your helmet, you can now do something about it. Skully has just launched a crowdfunding campaign for its Android-powered head protector, now named the AR-1; plunk…

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The USPS boosted its revenue through price increases and continued focus on package-shipping, but ended the third quarter with a $1.96 billion loss.

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IBM’s new computer chips can sense, taste, feel, smell and hear like a brain.

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Simple, an online bank, isn’t fulfilling its "worry-free" promise: Some users couldn’t perform any transactions for 24 hours.

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McDonald’s reported its worst monthly calendar-adjusted global same-store sales since early 2003 as it deals with a meat-supplier scandal in China and continued weakness in the U.S.

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