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2026 Credibility and Reputation Report

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Global Gene Editing Regulation Tracker

Our interactive GLP global map explains the status of each country’s regulations for human and agricultural gene editing and gene drives.

GLP 2021 Annual Report

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Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?

Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?

RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply

RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

Jon Entine, Mark McDaniel, Thomas Redick

Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse

Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse

GLP Features

RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply

RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply

Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?

Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

Jon Entine, Mark McDaniel, Thomas Redick

Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse

Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse

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Vaccine-preventable congenital infections are a leading driver of autism

Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse

Viewpoint: Wellness patches: Most vitamin supplements are useless and sometimes even dangerous, but this craze is even worse

Anti-vaxxers’ double whammy: Exaggerated vaccine fears have fueled measles outbreaks and preventable deaths—and left survivors more vulnerable to other infections for years

Anti-vaxxers’ double whammy: Exaggerated vaccine fears have fueled measles outbreaks and preventable deaths—and left survivors more vulnerable to other infections for years

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America's health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America’s health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Cameron English, Liza Lockwood

Viewpoint: Hijacking Jesus: How anti-vaccine fanatics are exploiting religious exemptions and killing children

Viewpoint: Hijacking Jesus: How anti-vaccine fanatics are exploiting religious exemptions and killing children

31 states have passed a patchwork of laws to limit election deepfake commercials. They’re not working very well.

31 states have passed a patchwork of laws to limit election deepfake commercials. They’re not working very well.

Stefani Langehennig

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Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

Does glyphosate—the world's most heavily-used herbicide—pose serious harm to humans? Is it carcinogenic? Those issues are of both legal and ...

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A New Transparency Tool from the Genetic Literacy Project

Who is David and who is Goliath in the lobbying battle over agricultural biotechnology? Activists? Agro-business? In a commitment to transparency, the GLP has mined 5 years of data to help the public understand the funding network that shapes the biotechnology debate.

Explore donor and recipient interactive maps

Science Literacy Project Daily Digest

Science Controversies in the Media

Challenging creation of a ‘vaccine injury clinic,’ NIH research scientists rebuke Kennedy for politicizing and undermining science

How the “wellness” movement has turned into a rigid cultural belief system

Vaccines, religious freedom, and protecting children’s health: New York Amish appeal to Supreme Court after $118,000 in vaccine fines for blocking shots

Viewpoint: Why taxes, regulations, and scare tactics won’t convert people into eating healthier

Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers

‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration

Online gold rush of unapproved peptides is outrunning federal regulators

Viewpoint: Selective pronatalism: The radical “ethical” case challenging parents’ right to end a pregnancy when a fetus has a severe genetic disorder

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PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

Discarded Green Cap on Public Trash Can

'Blatant slap in the face': MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration

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Vaccine-preventable congenital infections are a leading driver of autism

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Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers

Government Briefing on Autism Trends

Viewpoint: ‘Statistical murder’: Kennedy’s expanding record of “duplicity and mendacity”

FDA Vials and Syringes Flat Lay

Online gold rush of unapproved peptides is outrunning federal regulators

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Viewpoint—“Miracle molecule” debunked: Why acemannan supplements don’t work

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Viewpoint: Selective pronatalism: The radical “ethical” case challenging parents’ right to end a pregnancy when a fetus has a severe genetic disorder

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Widely condemned as unethical, hepatitis B vaccine study funded by RFK Jr’s CDC gets a final greenlight

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Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s stacked FDA advisory council endorses multicancer screening test from ethically- questionable company that would increase false positives and waste billions of dollars

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Ahead of the midterms, Meta has paid at least 29 anti-LGBTQ accounts for their posts

Prescription Capsules Scattered on Twenty-Dollar Bills

Facts & Fallacies podcast: America's health care system is broken. A doctor explains how to fix it, Part 2

Challenging creation of a ‘vaccine injury clinic,’ NIH research scientists rebuke Kennedy for politicizing and undermining science

How the “wellness” movement has turned into a rigid cultural belief system

Vaccines, religious freedom, and protecting children’s health: New York Amish appeal to Supreme Court after $118,000 in vaccine fines for blocking shots

Viewpoint: Why taxes, regulations, and scare tactics won’t convert people into eating healthier

RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply

Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?

Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers

‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration

Viewpoint: ‘Statistical murder’: Kennedy’s expanding record of “duplicity and mendacity”

Online gold rush of unapproved peptides is outrunning federal regulators

GLP Library Search

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Ag Biotech Comms

Ag Gene Editing

Agricultural Regs & Ethics

Alternative Proteins

Ancestry & Evolution

Newly approved GMO chestnut trees planted across from the White House are stirring debate

Newly approved GMO chestnut trees planted across from the White House are stirring debate

We are entering a new era of personalized medicine—if you’re white

Facts & Fallacies podcast: The ‘woke’ crusade against anthropology? Dr. Elizabeth Weiss

Artificial Intelligence

Challenging health misinformation? People are more likely to believe AI when it responds with empathy

Challenging health misinformation? People are more likely to believe AI when it responds with empathy

Viewpoint: RFK Jr. touts AI to guide health care…but searches using the technology he champions expose him as scientifically illiterate

Viewpoint: ‘Bureaucratic and economic obstacles’ to agricultural biotechnology: Europe creeps into the 21st century, but blocks remain

Brain / Neuroscience

Chemical Controversies

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

GAHA: The corporate-created “healthier America” movement challenging what it claims is MAHA misinformation about modern farming, chemicals, and food

‘Forever chemical’ concerns: Separating hysteria from reasonable concern in the debate over PFAS danger

Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers

Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers

‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration

PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication

How the “wellness” movement has turned into a rigid cultural belief system

How the “wellness” movement has turned into a rigid cultural belief system

Vaccines, religious freedom, and protecting children’s health: New York Amish appeal to Supreme Court after $118,000 in vaccine fines for blocking shots

RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply

Human Gene Editing

Medical Misinformation

Medical Regs & Ethics

Personalized Medicine

Synthetic Biology

Sustainability & Climate

Viewpoint: ‘Bureaucratic and economic obstacles’ to agricultural biotechnology: Europe creeps into the 21st century, but blocks remain

Viewpoint: ‘Bureaucratic and economic obstacles’ to agricultural biotechnology: Europe creeps into the 21st century, but blocks remain

Rural revival or corporate windfall? Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill tax law opens the door to big breaks for data centers—but tech giants aren’t cashing in

Is organic farming really more sustainable? 100 recent studies say ‘no’