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Is ‘sex addiction’ a real disorder — or an excuse?
Another week, another sex addict. Or so it seems. In the most recent case of a celebrity claiming 'sex addiction' ...
Racial differences in medicine: Radiotherapy prostate treatment success in Black Americans linked to population-based genetic differences
Black men with localized prostate cancer had better treatment- and disease-specific outcomes than white men when treated with definitive radiotherapy, ...
China regards US search for COVID origins with suspicion — hobbling future pandemic preparedness
One fallout from the conflict over the origin of the pandemic is less scientific collaboration and more mistrust between two ...
Viewpoint: Many white evangelicals invoke bogus ‘Christian beliefs’ to justify vaccine resistance
In the grab bag of reasons for vaccine resistance, the religious exemption claimed by evangelicals is perhaps the most perplexing ...
When can we declare the COVID pandemic officially over?
Pandemics do eventually end, even if omicron is complicating the question of when this one will. But it won’t be ...
How a fascination with telepathy pseudoscience laid the groundwork for modern brain research
A brush with death led Hans Berger to invent a machine that could eavesdrop on the brain. In 1893, when ...
Major anti-vaccine misinformation disseminators: Pregnancy apps
For generations of parents, Heidi Murkoff’s 1984 pregnancy guide “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” has been a trusty companion, ...
GLP Podcast: COVID vaccines; Lab leak scandal; UK embraces CRISPR crops—the biggest stories of 2021
The COVID-19 vaccines saved a lot of lives in 2021, but convincing some Americans to take them proved to be ...
Viewpoint: 10 stupid agriculture and food truisms that need to die
In the spirit of moving forward into the new year and helping to stop the spread of misinformation, here are ...
46,000 people and counting: How COVID has impacted the study of human behavior
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay Van Bavel, a psychologist at New York University, wanted to identify ...
Omicron symptoms similar to seasonal cold and flu
With the omicron variant now the dominant strain in the United States infecting the unvaccinated and fully inoculated alike, health ...
Viewpoint: What is ‘scientism’ — and why does that worldview fail us?
Over the last 15 years of being a scientist who writes about science in a variety of forums, I have ...
Why geneticists are moving away from using the term ‘race’ — but not its meaning
Geneticists are moving away from using the term "race" in their papers, but the meaning of replacement descriptors such as ...
Viewpoint: How ‘bad faith’ journalists corrupt our understanding of crop biotechnology and undermine science
In a column published in the newspaper Le Monde, the journalist Stéphane Foucart, explains that GMO technology has not significantly ...
COVID spurred a slew of junk science. Here are the top 6 coronavirus related stories of 2021
Just as it did last year, the most dangerous pandemic in a century spawned all sorts of junk science in ...
Viewpoint: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has used COVID to make anti-vaccine disinformation mainstream
While many nonprofits and businesses have struggled during the pandemic, Kennedy’s anti-vaccine group has thrived. An investigation by The Associated ...
5 reasons why the GMO debate is over
Though we still hear some moaning and groaning about GMOs — genetically modified organisms — it primarily comes from a ...
Viewpoint: With more than 70 countries producing GM foods, it’s time to get beyond tired debate over technology and embrace innovation
Transgenics began nearly three decades ago in world agriculture with the aim of increasing agricultural productivity. In other words, produce ...
Vaccine mandate opponents find a home in the Republican party
"The truth is, I'm still a registered Democrat," says Del Bigtree, a well-known anti-vaccine activist. Even before COVID-19, he wrote ...
GLP Podcast: Coming soon — USDA ‘bioengineered’ labels; Scientific American strays from science; Schools teach anti-GMO falsehoods
The USDA's mandatory bioengineered food labels will begin to appear on many more products next month. What can consumers expect ...
Who shares fake news? This personality type is most likely fall for misinformation
To find solutions to this misinformation crisis, our society needs a clear-eyed assessment of who and what drives the spread ...
Omicron was ‘created’ to distract from the Ghislaine Maxwell trial? New anti-vaccine misinformation floods the internet
False claims about the new variant have leaped across the Internet in the two weeks since it was first identified ...
Viewpoint: For another year in a row, the US scored highest in pandemic preparedness — so why is the country doing so poorly with COVID?
Nearly two years into a coronavirus pandemic that has killed more than 5 million people, every country, including the United ...
Viewpoint: An argument for CRISPR crops — ‘Very little about modern life is natural — and it’s time we all got over it’
Life goes on as gene-edited foods begin to hit the market. Japanese consumers have recently started buying tomatoes that fight ...
‘Category X’: What’s the science behind asexuality?
“Asexuality is an identity on equal footing with heterosexuality, homosexuality and so on", says Sunniva Árja Tobiasen. She is one ...
What lasting societal changes might COVID spur?
March 2020 to May 2020 almost certainly marked the most significant short-term change ever in worldwide human behavior. Vast sections ...
‘Misinformation kills’: Websites cataloguing unvaccinated people who died from COVID stir controversy
The details of [auto mechanic Nick] Bledsoe’s death and desperation-fueled change of heart stayed largely confined to his Facebook page ...
