GLP Science Facts & Fallacies
GLP podcast: Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food—health harming industries or life-saving innovators?
Fossil fuels, pesticides and food processing have dramatically improved living standards around the globe. This may be a controversial claim, ...
GLP podcast: ‘Safe injection sites’: enabling drug addiction or saving lives?
With illicit opioids still killing thousands of Americans each year, some public health advocates are pushing a radical solution to ...
GLP podcast: What’s wrong with ‘doomsday’ environmentalism? It’s false.
Ever notice how the environmental movement’s doomsday predictions arrive like clockwork, each one as urgent as the last? Mass starvation, ...
Doctors needs nutrition classes? A physician unmasks another MAHA myth
To hear RFK, Jr. talk about medical school, you may think doctors enter health care oblivious to basic facts about ...
GLP podcast: Miracle drug? Tech bros inflate depression-fighting effects of psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT
The greater the media hype around psychedelics, the more skeptical you should be. A perfect example of why this skepticism ...
GLP podcast: Overdose crisis—Illicit opioids spread like drug-resistant bacteria?
The harder the government cracks down on a drug, the more deadly its illicit replacement that emerges from the black ...
GLP podcast: Does industry funding corrupt science? The ‘shill gambit,’ debunked
It's a charge many scientists face: they post a factual tweet refuting common misinfo about vaccines, pesticides or some other ...
GLP podcast: How the Green Revolution saved the world $83 trillion
Spearheaded by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, the Green Revolution dramatically boosted food production in the middle of the ...
GLP podcast: In defense of DDT—the pesticide that saved half a billion lives
The insecticide DDT has prevented roughly half a billion deaths. A relatively low-toxic chemistry widely used to control disease-vectoring mosquitoes ...
GLP podcast: Everybody’s wrong about RFK, Jr.’s dietary guidelines
Depending on whom you ask, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent a significant step forward for public health—or they're ...
GLP podcast: Evolutionary mismatch. Is civilization wrecking our health?
There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...
GLP podcast: Ketamine—miracle depression treatment, or recreational nightmare?
Widely used as a battlefield anesthetic in the later stages of the Vietnam War, ketamine has emerged as a key ...
GLP podcast: Dr. Strangelove come to life. The anti-fluoride conspiracy, explained
For 70 years, a persistent minority of academics and activists has claimed that fluoridated drinking water poses a serious but ...
GLP podcast: Cookies addictive like heroin? Toxicologist dismantles ‘food addiction’
Enjoying delicious food is a fundamental part of the human experience. Few of us would deny the enjoyment we get ...
GLP podcast: Evolutionary biologist debunks the ‘sex spectrum’
The science is settled: biological sex is not a spectrum but a binary, and the evidence is undeniable to anyone ...
GLP podcast: Obesity—Disease or Choice? Ozempic’s Triumph Reignites the Debate
US obesity rates are falling from a record high after steadily climbing since the 1960s, dropping to 37 percent this ...
GLP podcast: ‘Health freedom’—a human right or MAHA propaganda tool?
RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition has built its platform on the concept of health freedom, a belief ...
GLP podcast: Are science journals corrupt? Dr. Kevin Folta examines the ‘replication crisis’
The science community faces an existential crisis as thousands of studies are retracted and dozens of peer-reviewed journals are forced ...
GLP podcast: America’s overdose epidemic, explained
The story most people know about America's opioid epidemic, a public health crisis claiming over 1 million lives since 1999, ...
GLP podcast: Tylenol maker refuted link to autism. Daily Caller’s fabricated health scare, exposed
Late last month, Daily Caller published a bombshell report claiming that Johnson & Johnson, the former manufacturer of Tylenol (acetaminophen), ...
GLP podcast: Media keeps hyping the youth cancer ‘epidemic.’ Problem? It’s a myth
Buoyed by sensationalist reporters eager to write alarming headlines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly hyped a dramatic "epidemic" of ...
GLP podcast: Spread meat allergy with gene-edited ticks? Bioethicists pose vile ‘thought experiment’
How far are we willing to go to slow climate change? The list of proposed solutions runs the gamut from ...
GLP podcast: ‘Toxic’ baby food? Dismantling another tort-lawyer health scam
A few months ago, a law firm emailed one of us (Cameron) asking for help promoting their litigation against baby ...
GLP podcast: Three phony health fads making your wallet lighter
"It really implies risk when there is none." That's how geneticist and farmer Kevin Folta summarizes the fatal flaw behind ...
GLP podcast: ‘Fight fire with fire.’ How one science advocate converts vaccine skeptics
Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection
If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...
GLP podcast: ‘Hyperreality.’ How the digital world severs our connection to truth
Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...