GLP podcast: Tort lawyers are destroying US science and medicine

In a nation once heralded as the crucible of scientific breakthroughs and medical marvels, US tort lawyers are now wielding gavels like wrecking balls, smashing innovation with a barrage of frivolous lawsuits that threaten to grind progress to a halt. These legal vultures, chasing jackpot settlements and ideological pipe dreams, aren’t just clogging courtrooms—they’re strangling the lifeblood of American science and medicine, turning innovative companies into defendants and destroying their ability to produce technologies that drive economic progress. The situation is poised to worsen with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a career trial lawyer with a history of abusing the legal system, serving as secretary of Health and Human Services.

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The risk posed by unleashed trial attorneys is greater than many Americans realize—including Kennedy’s supporters on the political left and right: higher food prices, restricted access to medicine and generally lower standards of living that amount to a cost of $443 billion in a single year, or more than or 2 percent of  US GDP.

The ultimate question is, will Kennedy have enough influence in the Trump Administration to further the extremist legal causes he’s best known for? On this episode of Facts and Fallacies, Jon Entine, founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, joins Cameron English to try to answer that question.

Jon Entine, founder and executive director of the Genetic Literacy Project, is an Emmy-winning investigative TV News producer and author of seven books, including three on genetics. Please follow him on X at @JonEntine

Cameron J. English is the director of bio-sciences at the American Council on Science and Health. Visit his website and follow him on X @camjenglish