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Jon Entine

Cincinnati
As seen in: Forbes, Memory Studies, AEI - American Enterprise Institute, Political Economy with Jim Pethokoukis, Genetic Literacy Project, Quillette
Covers:  biomedicine and agricultural biotechnology; science innovation; science communication; media ethics, 'disruptive technologies'
Dad, journalist, iconoclast, founder GeneticLiteracyProject.org - ag biotech/biomedicine/sustainability/ethics. Emmy-winning TV news producer, book author

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Jon Entine is founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project. A lifelong journalist, he won 19 major journalism awards including two News Emmys. Jon spent 20 years in network television news as a producer for ABC News and NBC News. He was Tom Brokaw's longtime producer. He also worked at 20/20, PrimeTime Live, and was executive in charge of documentaries at NBC. His 1989 documentary with Brokaw, "Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction," one Best International Sports Film of 1989.

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Regulatory approaches for genome edited agricultural plants in select countries and jurisdictions...

Regulatory approaches for genome edited agricultural plants in select countries and jurisdictions...

Genome editing in agriculture and food is leading to new, improved crops and other products. Depending on the…

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The Politicization of Public Investments

The Politicization of Public Investments

Should public pension funds invest the assets of their retirees based on the political views of the politicia…

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GM insect-resistant Bt cotton boosted India's crop yields? Differing Experts - The Peninsula Foun...

GM insect-resistant Bt cotton boosted India's crop yields? Differing Experts - The Peninsula Foun...

Cameron English is a Science Writer and the Managing Editor at Genetic Literacy Project. Jon Entine Is a Reno…

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Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It

Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We Are Afraid to Talk About It

In virtually every sport in which they are given opportunity to compete, people of African descent dominate. …

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The Myth of Social Investing: A Critique of its Practice and Consequences for Corporate Social Pe...

The Myth of Social Investing: A Critique of its Practice and Consequences for Corporate Social Pe...

Mackenzie, C. (1997). Ethical investment and the challenge of corporate reform. Doctoral dissertation, retrie…

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Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People

Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People

Amazon.com: Abraham's Children: Race, Identity, and the DNA of the Chosen People: 9780446580632: Entine, Jon:…

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Selective Pressure, Selective Silence

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By Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle Verified
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Human evolution, particularly of the brain, ended a long time ago—at least that is what many educated people, wary of claims about biological differences between human groups, prefer to believe. For much of the postwar era, it was widely assumed that natural selection had largely ceased to shape human populations and that any evolution during the past ten millennia was too slow or too slight to detect. That view was partly shaped by evidence and partly shaped by history.
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The Science Misinformation Gap

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By Jon Entine
| Quillette Verified
Every day, a Facebook user in Munich—and across the European Union—is likely to see at least one post with a label attached that warns, “False: rated by independent fact-checkers.” Most will scroll by. But a Facebook user in Minneapolis looking at the same post will not see a warning label. Same platform, same algorithm, same claim, different internet.
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Microplastics as a blueprint for health scares: How the "panic pipeline" of activists and academics partner with tort lawyers to manufacture chemical crises - Genetic Literacy Project

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By Henry Miller, Jon Entine
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A wave of high-profile research over the past several years has taken microplastics from a story about pollution in oceans, drinking water, and food to a far more alarming claim: that these particles are “inside you” — in brains, blood, arteries, placentas and testes — and may be tied to serious disease, including cancer and cardiovascular harm. There have been thousands of stories echoing this narrative in the media and on advocacy networks, often framed as proof of corporate malfeasance.
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Awards

Multiple awards

—"The Ethical Edge" [column on business ethics and brand marketing] Business Digest of San Fernando Valley, Ventura, and Santa Barbara, CA —Ventura County Press Club Best Column – 1999 NBC Entertainment Special: "Miss America: Beyond the Crown" —Columbus International Film Festival: 1996 Honorable Mention (2 categories) "Shattered Image: Is the Body Shop Too Good to Be True?" Business Ethics, Sep. 1994 —National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award: 1995 Honorable Mention. ABC PrimeTime Live: "Surgical Scorecards" —Columbus International Film Festival: 1994 Honorable Mention ABC PrimeTime Live: "Omertà" —Columbus International Film Festival: 1994 Honorable Mention ABC PrimeTime Live: "20/20 Vision" CINE Golden Eagle Award: 1993 International Film and TV Festival of New York: 1993 Finalist Columbus International Film Festival: 1993 Bronze Plaque —Museum of Broadcast Communications: Archival Collection ABC PrimeTime Live: "Miracle Cure" —Columbus International Film Festival: Chris Award (First Prize), 1993 Museum of Broadcast Communications: Archival Collection ABC PrimeTime Live Special: "Gorbachev: The Final Hours" —Emmy, News and Documentary: 1991 NBC News Special: "China in Crisis" —Emmy, News and Documentary: 1990 NBC Documentary: "Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction" —International Sport Film Festival (45th Annual): 1990 Best Feature Film —Ohio State Award: 1990 —CINE Golden Eagle Award: 1989 —Museum of Broadcast Communications: Archival Collection NBC Nightly News Investigative Series: "The Transplant Boom" —Clarion Award: 1979, ABC 20/20: "Look Out, Gold Swindlers" —The Corcoran Gallery of Art: 1981 Certificate of Merit —National Headliners Club Award: 1981 —Museum of Broadcast Communications: Archival Collection