Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Police raid Guinea-Bissau offices of RFK Jr.-backed vaccine researchers, seize hepatitis B doses
Judicial police in Guinea-Bissau searched the offices of the Bandim Health Project on Monday and seized doses of hepatitis B ...
‘Weird food’? Testicle- and brain-eating, supplement-gulping MAHA health food enthusiasts defend their ‘natural’ diets
Raw buffalo brains, bull testicles and roadkill are on the menu for a growing community of diet contrarians who insist ...
Latest Trump administration proposal to change NIH research grant system draws scientists’ ire
The National Institutes of Health wants to stop telling grant applicants their scores — and scientists aren’t happy about it, ...
RFK Jr.’s anti-vaccine obsession and fear of MAHA derailed bird flu containment plan
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-vaccine views helped push the Agriculture Department to shelve its plan for vaccinating poultry against avian ...
As Europe inches forward in its embrace of gene-edited crops, hopes abound that opposition to GMOs might fade
Europe's recent deal to loosen rules on gene-edited crops could be the first crack in the continent's decades-long resistance to ...
Drugs and supplements can extend life and five other longevity myths
Six popular claims about living longer don’t hold up, according to the scientists who study aging, as The New York ...
World Health Organization calls Kennedy- and CDC-backed Guinea-Bissau hepatitis B vaccine study designed to ‘prove’ the danger of vaccines “unethical”
A controversial hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau that would withhold the birth dose from 7,000 newborns got back on ...
Chaos or at peace with the world: The complex ways psychedelics transform the brain
Psychedelics don’t simply scramble the brain. Beneath the apparent chaos, psilocybin seems to organize brain activity around a person’s surroundings, ...
Challenging creation of a ‘vaccine injury clinic,’ NIH research scientists rebuke Kennedy for politicizing and undermining science
The board that oversees the National Institutes of Health’s research hospital has publicly rebuked Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...
How the “wellness” movement has turned into a rigid cultural belief system
Wellness isn’t just green juice and supplements anymore. It has become a worldview. That’s the argument from Ipsos researchers Colin ...
Vaccines, religious freedom, and protecting children’s health: New York Amish appeal to Supreme Court after $118,000 in vaccine fines for blocking shots
New York’s Amish are taking their fight over school vaccine mandates to the US Supreme Court, after the state hit ...
Viewpoint: Why taxes, regulations, and scare tactics won’t convert people into eating healthier
Decades of gentle nudging haven’t slowed the global obesity epidemic, so governments are getting pushier — slapping warning labels on ...
Viewpoint: Latest attack on renewable energy and farmers, new USDA rules could put solar grants out of reach for small producers
Farmers hoping to tap the US Department of Agriculture's Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) must now build their solar ...
‘Blatant slap in the face’: MAHA activists turn on RFK Jr. and Trump administration
A group of “Make America Healthy Again” activists, including former members of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s 2024 presidential campaign, says ...
Online gold rush of unapproved peptides is outrunning federal regulators
The online market for unapproved injectable peptides is booming, and the FDA is struggling to keep up, as Forbes contributor ...
Viewpoint: Selective pronatalism: The radical “ethical” case challenging parents’ right to end a pregnancy when a fetus has a severe genetic disorder
Even if polygenic embryo screening worked exactly as advertised, it could still do real social damage. That’s the argument from ...
Ahead of the midterms, Meta has paid at least 29 anti-LGBTQ accounts for their posts
On September 14, far-right influencer Chaya Raichik, known online as Libs of Tiktok, attacked a Washington state high school on ...
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
Grail’s Galleri multicancer blood test flunked its own big trial, and an FDA advisory panel recommended approving it anyway. That’s ...
Viewpoint: The price Americans pay for science denialism
Science denialism is quietly undoing centuries of hard-won progress against disease, and Americans are already paying for it with their ...
Viewpoint: Are these Trump-conservative GOP doctor-politicians violating their medical oath?
Physicians pledge to “do no harm,” but a cluster of Republican doctors in Washington are championing policies that strip health ...
Viewpoint: The shocking consequences after a year of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s distortions, deceptions, and flat-out falsehoods
If you think having accurate information about your health matters, then the U.S. has a problem. I know, because I've ...
Retreat from identity labels: Does the sharply declining number of young teens identifying as gay and bisexual reflect an ideological shift?
The share of young teenagers identifying as lesbian, gay or bisexual has dropped sharply in just four years — and ...
MAHA moms divided over RFK Jr.’s food‑safety efforts, as recall alerts grow and outbreaks spread
The “crunchy moms” who helped power Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Make America Healthy Again movement are splintering, as a year ...
Challenging health misinformation? People are more likely to believe AI when it responds with empathy
At a time of rampant medical misinformation online, artificial intelligence can do a good job of correcting falsehoods, but the ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr. touts AI to guide health care…but searches using the technology he champions expose him as scientifically illiterate
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has become an unlikely cheerleader for artificial intelligence in medicine — ...
Viewpoint: ‘Bureaucratic and economic obstacles’ to agricultural biotechnology: Europe creeps into the 21st century, but blocks remain
Genetically modified crops won’t single-handedly rescue harvests from worsening droughts, but Europe’s rulebook is making sure they barely get the ...
Viewpoint: How the anti-abortion movement twists medical facts and promotes science misinformation
Misinformation and junk science about abortion are spreading at alarming rates and are becoming key components in legislation and litigation ...
