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Viewpoint: Political paradox—why Trump’s budget plan ending carbon capture could lower climate-polluting emissions
The U.S. Department of Energy’s decision to claw back US$3.7 billion in grants from industrial demonstration projects may create an ...
Viewpoint: Trump and RFK, Jr. are wrong: ‘Our study of 2.5 million children shows acetaminophen not linked to autism’
United States President Donald Trump recently claimed that using the common painkiller acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol and by the ...
Making Lawyers Wealthy Again: RFK, Jr., Tylenol, and torts
On Monday, September 22, 2025, President Trump led a press conference in the Roosevelt Room of the White House following a press release on ...
RFK, Jr.’s claim that food additives cause ADHD is more scare-mongering than science
Robert F. Kennedy Jr has spent years railing against food additives, framing them as part of a broader threat to public health ...
What is ‘genetic nurture’ and how does it impact educational achievement?
The phrase “Look down your nose” comes from a time when aristocrats were taller than commoners due to their superior ...
Did you hear the story about the GMO that nearly destroyed the world?
An old myth has resurfaced that a GMO almost destroyed all life on Earth — but what's the real story? ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘batshit crazy health conspiracy theories’
[The] Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released their second report: The MAHA Strategy. It aims to focus the United States ...
How gene editing of farm animals could help prevent a COVID-like bird flu epidemic
During a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament ..., former Defra Secretary Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP joined a growing list of political, ...
Viewpoint: Tylenol and the pseudoscience litigation playbook: Here’s how tort lawyer RFK, Jr. consorts with ambulance-chasing lawyers to shake-down companies making a safe and necessary product
Donald Trump held a lengthy press release where he spewed a lot of disinformation and gave dangerous medical advice. He ...
Viewpoint: Farmers take a hit—Trump agriculture and biotechnology budget cuts are hampering U.S. innovation
Imagine a world where crops thrive with less water and fewer pesticides, where livestock resist disease without antibiotics, and where ...
Viewpoint: Science be damned—RFK, Jr. has his mind made up about the causes of autism
In the seven months since he was sworn in as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...
Viewpoint: RFK. Jr.’s MAHA ‘Health Freedom” movement is a singular health threat
"Health freedom” sounds so American – until you realize it’s been hijacked by RFK Jr. and MAHA to replace science ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s agricultural maelstrom: While U.S. agricultural output lags, opportunities for reform are being wasted
American agricultural leadership is being put to the test. Farmers are grappling with high input costs, non-tariff trade barriers, and ...
Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust
Why are so many people anti-science? As experts on attitudes, persuasion and how humans are impacted by scientific innovations, our ...
Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability
Several trends become quickly apparent when we engage the public about agriculture. Consumers across the industrialized world reject concepts like ...
Viewpoint: Why vaccine mandates are critical for public health
Vaccines are one of the most effective and life-saving scientific technologies in modern medicine. They save lives, prevent suffering, and ...
Viewpoint: ‘A conveyor belt of agenda-driven science’: NPR’s anti-aquaculture hit piece is bought and paid for by activists
National Public Radio (NPR), once a beacon of earnest, if occasionally sanctimonious, reporting, has sunk to a new low, as ...
Vaccines, politics, and the fragile future of public health
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s reshaped federal vaccine panel is expected to vote this week to ...
63% of Americans drink fluoridated water. Here’s a science breakdown of its benefits and hazards
Debates are hitting headlines as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voices new concerns about fluoride in public water systems. But what does the ...
Trump’s EPA will stop collecting emissions data from most polluting companies
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping ...
The less you know, the more you cockily believe you’re right: The Dunning-Kruger Effect sustains agricultural misinformation
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where individuals with limited knowledge or skills in a specific area tend to ...
Viewpoint: Media tout alleged ‘danger’ of homeopathic levels of plastic. That’s scaremongering
Homeopathic levels of plastic are the latest environmental scaremongering fad (Nanoplastics! Microplastics!) dominating partisan corporate media when they are not ...
Can native and conventional crops coexist with GM and gene-edited varieties? The case of Honduras
Over the last several years, it’s been more than evident there is an urgent need to increase food production at ...
Natural selection, artificial selection, and now political selection: Vaccine rejectionism is altering the course of evolution, and not in a good way
“A sharp partisan divide remains over new Covid boosters,” reads the headline announcing a recent poll from Politico, as respiratory ...
Viewpoint: ‘Trump may need to ignore RFK, Jr. on food the way he does on energy, or he’s going to send a lot of his voters into bankruptcy’
Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for ...
The Science vs. MAHA battle that’s now unfolding at the CDC
Public health and access to lifesaving vaccines are on the line in a high-stakes leadership battle at the Centers for ...
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 ...
