ScienceSeeker Editor's Selections February 29-March 6 2016 #sciseekpicks #scicomm

Each week, the ScienceSeeker editors pick their favorite posts within their respective areas of interest and expertise. Here is a round-up of the Science Seeker Editors’ Selections for the past week:

• GMOs: An unhealthy debate by Alex Taylor at Thought and Awe 
• Ten thousand years of GMO foods – making inedible edible by Skeptical Raptor 
• Paper Drives Home How Much Politics Influences Attitudes Toward Science Issues by Matt Shipman at Communication Breakdown
• What Donald Trump's smile says about the emotions of the US public by Alex Fradera at BPS Research Digest 
• There is a reproducibility crisis in psychology and we need to act on it by Dorothy Bishop at Bishop Blog 
• "Schizophrenia" does not exist. Discuss. by Paul Whiteley at Questioning Answers 
• "Joke Addiction" As A Neurological Symptom by Neuroskeptic at Discover 
• Zika virus infects human neural stem cells, but… and Your brain and the 'neuronal big bang' at Lunatic Labs 
• Social mimicry and theory of mind interactions by Zusi at On Psychology and Neuroscience 
• People will follow a robot in an emergency – even if it’s wrong by Aviva Rutkin at New Scientist
• Is Depression Always a Disease? by Therese J Borchard at World of Psychology 
• More Support for Early Exposure to Peanuts to Prevent Allergies by Andrew Pollack at Well
• New immunotherapy discovery could give treatments the precision they need by Alan Worsley at Cancer Research UK Science Blog  
• VIDEO: What exactly is epigenetics? by Ulla Gjeset Schjølberg at ScienceNordic
• How zebrafish help advance cancer research by Jan Botthof at Speaking of Research
• Some viruses play the shell game by Joost Snijder at Uncoating
• I love thial-S-oxides so much I cry by Shane Caldwell at Superhelical 
• The Science of Snow by N Niemuth at SustainableNano 
• Seasons On Mars - How Do They Compare With Earth? by Robert Walker at Robert Inventor
• Banning the tackle in rugby: A lesson in A vs Z by Ross Tucker at The Science of Sport 
• Snakes in a park? Not as much trouble as you'd expect by Sarah DeWeerdt at Conservation 
• Mapped: The sensitivity of the world’s ecosystems to climate Robert McSweeney at Carbon Brief 
• The Lack of the Landscape of Fear in Eastern Forests by John Laundre at Living Alongside Wildlife 
• What do chimp ‘temples’ tell us about the evolution of religion? by Rowan Hooper at New Scientist
• Monarch Conservation Strategies by Chris Helzer at Prarie Ecologist
• Big Bugs, Little Bugs by Mark Lasbury at As Many Exceptions as Rules 
• Michael Atiyah’s Imaginative State of Mind by Siobhan Roberts at Quanta
  
• Discrete Analysis launched by Gowers

Check back next week for more great picks!