GLP Science Facts & Fallacies

E-cigarettes burst onto the scene nearly 20 years, disrupting the cigarette industry and leaving anti-smoking advocates uncertain about how to ...

Information, much of it false, spreads at lightning speed in today’s digital age. The problem is more troubling than it ...

Fossil fuels, pesticides and food processing have dramatically improved living standards around the globe. This may be a controversial claim, ...

With illicit opioids still killing thousands of Americans each year, some public health advocates are pushing a radical solution to ...

Ever notice how the environmental movement’s doomsday predictions arrive like clockwork, each one as urgent as the last? Mass starvation, ...

To hear RFK, Jr. talk about medical school, you may think doctors enter health care oblivious to basic facts about ...

The greater the media hype around psychedelics, the more skeptical you should be. A perfect example of why this skepticism ...

The harder the government cracks down on a drug, the more deadly its illicit replacement that emerges from the black ...

It's a charge many scientists face: they post a factual tweet refuting common misinfo about vaccines, pesticides or some other ...

Spearheaded by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, the Green Revolution dramatically boosted food production in the middle of the ...

The insecticide DDT has prevented roughly half a billion deaths. A relatively low-toxic chemistry widely used to control disease-vectoring mosquitoes ...

Depending on whom you ask, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent a significant step forward for public health—or they're ...

There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...

Widely used as a battlefield anesthetic in the later stages of the Vietnam War, ketamine has emerged as a key ...

For 70 years, a persistent minority of academics and activists has claimed that fluoridated drinking water poses a serious but ...

Enjoying delicious food is a fundamental part of the human experience. Few of us would deny the enjoyment we get ...

The science is settled: biological sex is not a spectrum but a binary, and the evidence is undeniable to anyone ...

US obesity rates are falling from a record high after steadily climbing since the 1960s, dropping to 37 percent this ...

RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition has built its platform on the concept of health freedom, a belief ...

The science community faces an existential crisis as thousands of studies are retracted and dozens of peer-reviewed journals are forced ...

The story most people know about America's opioid epidemic, a public health crisis claiming over 1 million lives since 1999, ...

Late last month, Daily Caller published a bombshell report claiming that Johnson & Johnson, the former manufacturer of Tylenol (acetaminophen), ...

Buoyed by sensationalist reporters eager to write alarming headlines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly hyped a dramatic "epidemic" of ...

How far are we willing to go to slow climate change? The list of proposed solutions runs the gamut from ...

A few months ago, a law firm emailed one of us (Cameron) asking for help promoting their litigation against baby ...

"It really implies risk when there is none." That's how geneticist and farmer Kevin Folta summarizes the fatal flaw behind ...

Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...