Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: “Turn on, tune in, drop out”—Kennedy embraces the Timothy Leary psychedelic revolution
U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is sticking his fingers into many pies. One of these contains psychedelics that are ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine deniers are attacking a life-saving Vitamin K shot for newborns that isn’t even a vaccine
Newborns routinely receive the Vitamin K shot immediately after birth to prevent vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), a rare but ...
Viewpoint: Scientists have scrapped the worst-case climate scenario. Is that proof that climate change is a hoax, as Trump claims?
When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Right-wing politics bad for your health? Separating speculation from science
Politics has infiltrated every facet of modern life, including medicine. And some Americans seem increasingly inclined to make important health ...
Viewpoint: How Earthjustice became the poster child for the abuse of special interest activist funding
A recent US Department of the Treasury announcement that organizations claiming tax exempt status (NGOs, foundations, universities and some media groups) will ...
Viewpoint: Vaccines’ non-specific effects? The ‘shoddy’ Danish couple whose ‘research’ inspires RFK, Jr.’s health delusion
In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane ...
Some plants can poison you. So how did humans figure out what is safe to eat?
Have you ever eaten a green potato, or a bunch of rhubarb leaves? Hopefully not, because these two plant parts ...
Viewpoint: Who and what’s to blame for the surge in vaccine-preventable diseases?
What causes an epidemic to spread? Don’t underestimate the power of rhetoric and oratory by politicians. About 1,500 measles cases ...
Viewpoint: Double standard—Why does the wellness industry get a free pass while Big Healthcare is treated as morally suspect?
Despite public opinion, the wellness industry is profoundly and almost absurdly commercial. It sells, among its products and services, supplements, ...
Limiting gender affirming interventions: Trump administration targets Texas even though it already bans youth access
Since early 2025, the Trump Administration has sought to limit youth access to gender-affirming care, taking a comprehensive approach to ...
Viewpoint: Can mRNA research survive the Trump administration?
In December 2020, mRNA vaccines leapt into the limelight as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. To date, millions of ...
Viewpoint: Greenpeace and poison: How environmental advocacy groups rely on compliant (and often ignorant) journalists to spread disinformation and spark litigation
Here we go again. Greenpeace released a report recently entitled Our Poisoned Land claiming 102 individual pesticides have been used across seven ...
Sounds we can’t hear — the hidden planetary signals behind science, fear, and misinformation
Most of us think of sound as something we can hear: music, speech, barking dogs, thunder, or the roar of ...
Can ‘Social Stress Indicators’ help contain social media misfluencers?
Misleading information online is often treated as a technical glitch, something that better algorithms or stricter moderation can fix. But research points ...
Viewpoint: There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee—including many substances that can cause cancer. Why isn’t it banned?
We live in a complex chemical landscape in which risks are notoriously difficult to evaluate. It can be pretty hairy ...
Viewpoint: Why the EPA mismeasures cancer risk of chemicals and what should be done to fix it
Every administration says it prioritizes getting the science right, and our current Administration has emphasized using “gold-standard science” as the ...
‘It’s not super useful’: As wariness about AI grows, Trump proposes rollback of healthcare safeguards
Paul Boyer, a psychotherapist for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland, California, is experiencing the AI revolution firsthand. He’s a little underwhelmed ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Nicotine vaping—public health miracle, or risk to children? Professor Cliff Douglas
E-cigarettes burst onto the scene nearly 20 years, disrupting the cigarette industry and leaving anti-smoking advocates uncertain about how to ...
Gutting the National Science Board: How the Trump-RFK, Jr. crusade is erasing the separation of science and state
“On behalf of President Donald J. Trump,” read 22 emails sent from the White House Presidential Personnel Office on Friday afternoon, April ...
‘Turbo cancer’ or mRNA cancer cure? Strategies to counter misinformation
Scientists are making rapid progress toward a long-awaited goal that could help to reshape cancer care: mRNA cancer vaccines with the potential ...
The Orange Bowl without oranges: Can CRISPR save Florida citrus?
The famous Orange Bowl may still host an annual New Year’s Day football game after 91 years in celebration of ...
Viewpoint: NAD is the wellness grifters latest evidence-lite longevity fad. At least the mice are impressed.
NAD has been discussed in the wellness world for years. In 2019, Jennifer Aniston mentioned it in an interview with ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Limit free speech to blunt social media misinfo?
Information, much of it false, spreads at lightning speed in today’s digital age. The problem is more troubling than it ...
AI likely to improve health care, research shows—but not for blacks and ethnic minorities
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly being integrated into health care, including but not limited to diagnosis and treatment plans, drug development, prediction of health risks and ...
Financial incentives, over diagnosis, and weak oversight: Autism claims are driving up Medicare costs
As we recently argued, the American healthcare system’s structure of open-ended reimbursement, subjective diagnostic criteria, and fee-for-service billing creates powerful ...
The FDA couldn’t find a vaccine safety crisis, so it buried its own research
Corrupt and Unethical Leadership at the FDA There is a particular kind of government betrayal that arrives not with a ...
Viewpoint: Why the retracted Monsanto glyphosate study doesn’t change the science—the world’s most popular herbicide is safe
In 2000, three researchers published a peer-reviewed paper concluding that, “under present and expected conditions of use,” Roundup, a formulation of ...
Viewpoint: The state of U.S. vaccine policy? Dismal nationally, but some states are stepping up.
[T]he chasm between what gets said on Capitol Hill and what actually ends up playing out in policy has never ...
