Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: After MAHA-Republican election debacle, controversial campaigner Zen Honeycutt looks to sympathetic Democrats to promote her anti-chemical agenda
It was a bad Election Day for MAHA, and Zen Honeycutt wasn’t the least bit surprised. The Make America Healthy ...
Biohacker influencers are claiming GLP-1 weight loss drugs extend lifespan. One mice experiment suggests there may be some truth to the claim
Few drugs have been as disruptive to the field of medicine as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) mimics. Based on a naturally ...
As measles deaths among the unvaccinated hit a 35-year high, Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense bizarrely blames doctors for slow-walking a cure
On November 5, 2026, Wisconsin health officials announced that an infant has died of measles, the state’s first death of ...
Viewpoint: Bedeviled by “toxic inflammation”? How wellness grifters turn this scientific gray zone into a supplement jackpot
In the wellness world, 'inflammation' has become the ultimate scapegoat for everything that ails the human body. But while immunology ...
Farming, food, and chemicals: Post-midterms, the MAHA alliance between Democrats and MAGA Republicans is bruised but not cowed. What comes next?
Concerns about pesticides were a factor in the 2026 midterm elections, but they primarily acted as a winning issue for ...
With technical barriers to human embryo editing falling, ethical concerns escalate
Heritable genome editing in human embryos is once again under intense scrutiny after the publication of an opinion piece in ...
Viewpoint: ‘Just the flu’: Skipping your child’s flu shot could be a fatal mistake
In 2003, my life was completely shattered. My daughter, Alana, was 5½ years old when she died from complications of ...
Challenging genetic modification rejectionists: Our evolving food system has relied on science for thousands of years
Oryza rufipogon is an ordinary-looking wild grass found today in parts of China, India and Southeast Asia. More than 8,000 ...
Viewpoint: Activist attacks on corporations increasingly depend on “attribution” science to target oil companies for global climate change
On October 5, 2026, the Supreme Court heard a threshold question in Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. v. County Commissioners of ...
Viewpoint: Yes, our food system stinks, but the attack of ultra-processed foods is often misplaced
Ultraprocessed foods have a terrible reputation. Studies have linked them with multiple chronic diseases. Journalists and health influencers characterize them ...
Viewpoint: Peptides and medical freedom: The MAHA obsession that can damage your health
After the third day of squirting an experimental drug up his nose, Dylan Meetze felt horrible. “It was like I ...
“Do your own research”: What Medicare’s annual open enrollment circus teaches us about the seductive trap of DIY health and science
A striking example of the dubiousness of that maxim is the annual rite of fall for seniors—Medicare’s Open Enrollment period, ...
Race against food rot: How AI and gene editing could slash fruit and vegetable waste
Every year, between a quarter and half of all the fruits and vegetables grown on Earth never reach a hungry ...
What is a “normal” climate? Strategy for adapting to the unknown
Climate change is worsening. There’s now no chance of holding temperature rise to 1.5°C. The future will bring worsening floods, ...
Viewpoint: Drones, dollars and baby food: Critical innovations that anti-plastic ideologues willfully ignore
If people isolated themselves in an imaginary world dominated by Big Change …- where foundations fund scientists to publish dubious ...
Viewpoint: How badly is the U.S. food-safety net fraying? FDA’s bungled handling of the tainted lettuce crisis deepens concerns over cuts to disease tracking and response
This summer, a Cyclospora outbreak linked to iceberg lettuce sickened almost 13,000 people in 21 states, killing two. Investigators traced the ...
Viewpoint: That’ll be $300: The wellness industry’s junk science scam to ‘fix’ your immune system that isn’t broken
One of the most frustrating features of the wellness industry, at least for me as an immunologist, is how readily ...
In Trump administration redirect, U.S. steers NIH sharply away from biodefense and pandemic preparedness
When the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) released its strategic plan for the next five years (2026–2030), ...
Science challenges anti-soda activists: No, sodas won’t make you fat
A new study helps clarify the weight-loss impact of diet drinks and dispel a popular myth about artificial sweeteners. As ...
Health misinformation minefield: Countering online deluge by copying its style
Imagine you’re worried about vaccinating your baby. A message on Facebook tells you: “Protect the community and your kids by ...
Victims of their own success: As memories of killer diseases fade, vaccine rejectionism soars
Three measles-related deaths have been reported in England in 2026. One child died from an acute infection, another from the ...
Viewpoint: Activists hype ‘dangerous level’ of pesticide residues in Driscoll berries: Separating health concerns from fear-mongering
I had several people ask me if I have second thoughts about my berry consumption in light of a swarm ...
100% raw milk, 100% misguided: As MAHA-fueled demand for unpasteurized milk soars, American Academy of Pediatrics renews call for a ban on its sale and distribution
This story was originally published by ProPublica. The nation’s largest professional group of pediatricians has renewed its call for a ...
Testosterone’s growing appeal to women: It anecdotally mildly improves sex life, but are there any other potential benefits—or red flags?
A recent BBC report described women posing as men to get hold of testosterone gel, hoping to improve their menopause ...
RFK Jr.’s EPA capitulates to anti-abortionists, authorizes study of safe abortion pills which activists falsely claim are “poisoning” our water supply
After pressure from anti-abortion advocates, Republican lawmakers and state officials, the Environmental Protection Agency announced this month that it will ...
Viewpoint: ‘Statistical murder’: Kennedy’s expanding record of “duplicity and mendacity”
Public health disasters do not always begin with a new pathogen. Sometimes they begin with a government official who teaches ...
PFAS in Agriculture: Science, Uncertainty, and Risk Communication
Summary PFAS contamination raises legitimate health and environmental concerns, but this diverse family of thousands of chemicals should not be ...
Vaccine-preventable congenital infections are a leading driver of autism
Kids born with certain congenital infections are approximately three times more likely to be diagnosed as having autism, according to ...
