Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Lipton also devoted space to Stonyfield Farms and others in the GMO-opposing organic food industry doing the same, but that seems ...

The legal attack hit Kevin Folta in early February. After receiving a FOIA request from US Right to Know---a nonprofit dedicated to exposing "the failures of the corporate food system"---the ...

A federal judge yesterday ruled in favor of the New York Times Co. — and the role of the Fourth Estate more broadly — in a defamation case brought by University of Florida horticultural sciences ...

Even the best scientific innovation can be flattened by public distrust. That was the major reminder from Kevin Folta, Ph.D., a professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida, to ...

In 2015, Eric Lipton, a two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning investigative reporter, published a long expose on the front page of the New York Times that delivered on its headline: “Food Industry Enlisted ...

A scientist named Kevin Folta at the University of Florida has been one of a broader group of public researchers who have come under hostile, Freedom Of Information Act scrutiny with the goal of ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. GM food, GM medicine and GM humans. What is the future for a technology that promises to speed up the ...

A U.S. federal court judge dismissed a defamation lawsuit brought by a University of Florida professor against a Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter. In the suit, UF horticultural sciences ...

A University of Florida professor, who has been a longtime defender of genetically modified foods, has sued the New York Times and one of its reporters for libel. Kevin Folta, UF's horticultural ...

If you're a scientist and public communicator, you are putting yourself in professional and personal danger. And as Kevin Folta's case shows, things are only getting worse. Social media in general, ...

Vine plants can be a great way to make your garden look beautiful while covering your fence, softening the noise coming from the loud neighbors next door, and providing natural shade. Depending on ...