Teen Skepchick’s Reality Checks 2.19
- “Golden rice,” a GM rice with increased vitamin A, has been opposed by anti-GM advocates. But it could help malnourished children. (via Slate Magazine)
- Alabama state rep. Mary Sue McClurkin wants to shut down the state’s abortion clinics, partly because “a child…is the largest organ in a [woman’s] body.” Uh, what? (via Feministing)
- How vaccines have changed the world, in a graphic. (via Forbes)
- Pseudoscience and stereotyping won’t solve gender inequality in science. (via The Guardian)
Featured image credit: International Rice Research Institute (IRRI)
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