Apr 6, 20151 min read
The following article ran in the Supermarket News IdeaXChange on March 31, 2015:By: Leslie Sarasin, President and CEO, Food Marketing Institute
The words “The War on Science” emblazoned across the cover of the March 2015 National Geographic accomplished the editor's task and caught my attention. The lead article, expounding on those provocative words, explores five topics in current public discourse — climate change, evolution, the moon landing, vaccinations and genetically modified food — for which there is verifiable scientific data available, but that data is being largely ignored, doubted or out-right dismissed, by a growing contingency who is skeptical about science. Visit Supermarket News IdeaXChange to read more.
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