Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s depressingly misguided (and litigator-funded) crusade against antidepressants
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced plans to begin significantly reducing the most-used class of antidepressants in America. Under his ...
Prioritizing AI, robotics, and nuclear energy: Trump administration is guiding research funding away from independent universities to private companies
President Trump’s science adviser told lawmakers on [July 22, 2026] that the Trump administration intended to drastically overhaul the country’s ...
Europe’s tentative embrace of agricultural gene editing could revolutionize food production and health in Asia
On June 17, 2026, the European Parliament reached a historic milestone by endorsing New Genomic Techniques (NGTs), sending a powerful ...
No test, no tennis: Women’s Tennis Association becomes first major female sports league to require genetic sex testing
The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has taken a step beyond most other women’s sports leagues by requiring genetic sex testing ...
FDA takes up peptide therapies as hype outpaces science
A slate of popular peptide therapies has won the backing of a key advisory panel to the federal government – ...
Louisiana and Texas bring RFK,Jr.- MAHA-backed restrictions on dyes and other ‘controversial’ ingredients to eight states
Over the past month, Texas and Louisiana both enacted first-in-the-nation legislation that created specific labeling requirements for food products that ...
Viewpoint: ‘Thought police in the UK?’ Conservatives lash out at government report calling anti-LGBQT+ narratives ‘false and misleading’
Anti-transgender views have been classed as “misinformation” in a government-commissioned report. The study urges the Government to use psychology to ...
Poll: Younger people more open to using genetics to increase fertility and reduce chances of inherited diseases
Our report Fertility, Embryo Research and Genome Editing: Public Attitudes in Europe explores public attitudes to fertility treatment, embryo research, genome editing, donor conception, surrogacy and ...
Trump-RFK, Jr. National Science Board firings: Accountability vs. partisan meddling
In late April, President Trump fired the National Science Board (NSB), yanking a federal science institution that had operated largely out of ...
Strawberries are berries—and 35 other surprising food and drink myths
Some ideas are repeated so often, we start believing they’re true – particularly when it comes to food. But there’s ...
We are entering a new era of personalized medicine—if you’re white
The National Institutes of Health recently announced a remarkable achievement: the world’s largest database of human genomes, a repository of ...
Viewpoint: Why do so many ‘mainstream’ and ‘respected’ media outlets exaggerate climate change threats?
The message is unmistakable: Global warming is coming for your family’s dinner table, and only sweeping climate policy can save ...
Is the longevity obsession a new form of ageism?
It wasn’t always like this. In the 1600s and 1700s, when people aged 65-plus made up just 2% of the ...
Science brain drain escalates as Trump purge extends to USDA
Since the start of the second Trump presidency, the federal government has slashed nearly a quarter of a million employees, ...
Viewpoint: Kratom ‘supplement’ crisis: DEA sits on its hands while patient addictions to this ineffective drug rise
Earlier this month, the Drug Enforcement Administration announced a plan to ban a class of kratom products known as 7-OH, ...
High cholesterol? FDA approves effective oral medication
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Lipfendra (enlicitide), the first oral inhibitor of proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9), ...
What’s the prospect of developing gene-altered crops that are more nutritious and resist climate disruption
Calories alone are not enough Climate change is not only affecting how much food we can produce, but also how ...
Viewpoint: A practical guide to evaluating social media wellness hype
Evaluating a health claim often comes down to a few questions that most people were never taught to ask. The ...
The Indian physician’s one-woman battle against health disinformation on Wikipedia
For over a decade, Dr. Netha Hussain has been part of the last line of defense against public health disinformation ...
Regulating cultured meat around the world
The US and Singapore remain the most advanced markets in terms of cultivated meat approvals....The UK has already approved cultivated meat for pet ...
Are we edging closer to precisely, and safely, editing human embryos?
On June 1, an international group of industry and academic collaborators, led by geneticist Dieter Egli at Columbia University, released a preprint ...
Rapamycin: Here’s the skinny on the anti-aging pill that increases the lifespan—of mice by 10%
The PEARL trial — published in full results in 2025 — was the most rigorous human study of low-dose rapamycin ...
More and more babies are developing uncontrollable bleeding—linked directly to vaccine deniers’ rejection of vitamin K shots
Bleeding episodes among infants of 6 months of age or younger in Sweden doubled from 2003 through 2021. This concerning ...
Viewpoint: Is bagged salad a dangerous science experiment? Challenging an online misinformation campaign
A video posted on X by @WallStreetApes shows a woman o claiming that U.S. bagged lettuce is "soaked in chlorine, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. is setting up a panel to compensate people who claim they were injured by a COVID vaccine–no proof needed
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to make it easier for people to get compensated for ...
‘It’s time to have a conversation’: Once adamantly opposed to human gene editing, UK’s The Guardian acknowledges likely benefits
Ever since Crispr-Cas9 gene-editing technology emerged in the early 2010s, ethical questions around genetically altered humans, so-called designer babies, have ...
Can we trust Trump’s USDA to accurately report farm data? Beef export numbers suggest ‘no’.
Reuter’s Tom Polansek reported that, “the U.S. Department of Agriculture dramatically lowered its reported beef export sales on Thursday, sparking fresh concerns ...
