GLP Science Facts & Fallacies

If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...

Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...

Iconoclastic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again roiled the science community, cancelling $500 million ...

As an increasing number of US states begin to liberalize their drug laws, allowing recreational use of marijuana and even ...

Five years after COVID-19 began to turn the world upside down, controversy continues to rage around the life-saving mRNA vaccines ...

One of the many troubling consequences of the COVID pandemic has been a resurgent anti-vaccine movement, brought to unprecedented prominence ...

America's ferocious battles over food safety and nutrition are often driven by politics and other ideological considerations rather than cold, ...

The ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. has fueled intense speculation about how politics influences vaccine hesitancy. With over 1,200 ...

Science journalism is in disarray as reporters pollute their coverage with politics, promote conspiracy theories, and bungle basic scientific facts—undermining ...

Over the last decade, a growing chorus of scientists has declared that biological sex is not binary. Properly assessing human ...

With a growing number of US states legalizing marijuana use, scientists and policymakers are once again engaged in a pitched ...

There's a growing panic over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most recently targeting fluoropolymers used in medical devices. The issue ...

It wasn't a total train wreck. That's the best way to summarize the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission's May ...

In some ways, we do work like computers and use distributed networks of firing neurons in important ways. ... "I also ...

In the late 1990s, America began to see a dramatic uptick in the misuse of prescription opioids. Fueled by unethical ...

Today's science disinformation ecosystem is sustained by a truly strange coalition of MAGA conservatives and liberal “wellness warriors” who have ...

An untreated rattlesnake bite can kill you, yet drinking the same dose of venom is generally harmless, courtesy of the ...

This week on Facts and Fallacies, a farmer and plant geneticist refutes activist claims that modern agriculture drastically reduces nutrient ...

We've all heard the claims about gender-affirming care. The effects of puberty blockers are reversible; most experts agree that medically ...

After years of flogging one chemical scare after another, NPR has abruptly changed its tune, defending Girl Scout cookies against ...

It's a widely believed myth spread by wellness gurus, Hollywood stars, politicians and even many scientists: the pharmaceutical industry "owns" ...

For nearly three decades, the anti-vaccine movement has perpetuated a dangerous, science-free narrative linking vaccines to autism. Not only has ...

Greenpeace USA just lost a $667 million defamation lawsuit over pipeline protests that might sink the infamous NGO for good ...

Doctors are leaving medical school ill-equipped to do their jobs and patients–especially the poorest among us–are receiving inferior care that ...

The pandemic continues to roil our political discourse as Stanford health economist Jay Bhattacharya prepares to take over as director ...

In a nation once heralded as the crucible of scientific breakthroughs and medical marvels, US tort lawyers are now wielding ...

Tew Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has never hesitated to attack modern agriculture. Though most ...