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‘Great potential harm to international harmony’: When COVID broke, key scientists believed virus could have leaked from Wuhan lab, but Anthony Fauci and Francis Collins suppressed debate
Early in the pandemic, multiple scientists urged NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and NIH Director Francis Collins to seriously consider the ...
GLP Podcast: CRISPR biosensors; Engineered gut microbes; Anti-GMO groups love the lab-leak theory
Researchers have developed a biosensor they say can monitor the activity of CRISPR gene editing in real-time. Synthetic biology is ...
How did this acupuncture study get published in Nature?
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, an unfortunately all-too-common topic for me was the proliferation of dubious acupuncture ...
H+: Does transhumanism ‘sacrifice the rights of the individual on the altar of the collective good’?
Transhumanism (Humanity+ or hereafter H+) is a 20th– century endeavor grounded in rational humanism that trusts technological advances to answer ...
‘Pesticide’ has become a dirty word. Here’s why most fears are misplaced
Chemophobia is rampant. Some environmental groups, organic promoters and sloppy journalists have successfully made many consumers scared of products that ...
They replicate and evolve, but are not alive: Fighting viruses challenges our definitions of life
Scientists have argued for hundreds of years over how to classify viruses, says Luis Villarreal, professor emeritus at the University ...
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 ...
