GLP Science Facts & Fallacies

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 ...

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 ...

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" ...