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From plastic coasters to human hearts: Inside the race to print the human body
Fifteen years ago, 3‑D printing was heralded as the technology that would revolutionize manufacturing, democratizing production and allowing anyone with ...
Baby food panic, brought to you by trial lawyers hoping to prosecute by press release
Last week, I received an email from a law firm asking ACSH to promote its groundless allegations about the dangers ...
Viewpoint — Fact checking MAHA mythmakers: How wellness influencers undermine American science and health
After RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA vaccine technology research programs last week, I had big plans of multiple articles I ...
Viewpoint: Video — Big Solar is gobbling up productive agricultural land and hurting farmers yet providing little energy or sustainabilty gains
I made this 10-minute documentary, SUNBLOCK, because I love farmers and ranchers and want to tell their stories. This film ...
Four ways to strip carbon out of agriculture and limit farming’s climate impacts
Carbon is a “hot topic” in an age of Climate Change (pun intended). That is playing out in unique ways ...
Confronting the elephant in the human biodiversity room — the explosive issue of IQ
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine two widely separated human groups living for thousands of years in different cultural and ecological ...
The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID
COVID-19 has not disappeared. According to the most recent weekly update from the CDC, wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?
The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...
Organic farming will never be truly sustainable until it embraces gene editing
The organic process is neither viable nor sustainable but a new paper would like to change that. By allowing modern ...
When AI goes HAL 9000: How the coming age of agentic AI could unleash catastrophic cyberattacks
With all the hype about the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize and accelerate innovation, there are some ...
Viewpoint: It’s time to move beyond the ‘sex assigned at birth’ mania
As you may have noticed, “sex” is out, and “sex assigned at birth” is in. Instead of asking for a ...
Viewpoint: Should the public foot the pricey bill for organic farming and food?
A group of European researchers argued in a recent journal article that permitting the use of gene edited crops in ...
More than 12,500 pesticides need assessment or re-evaluation. Here is how EPA does its work
Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin has said he wants the federal agency to accelerate scientific safety evaluations of various chemicals, ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: What the media and policymakers miss about containing agricultural pests—Exaggerating risk and underestimating benefits
The debate on the extent and necessity of regulating the use of plant protection products essentially concerns an objective assessment ...
GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote ‘fat phobia’ as some fat activists claim?
Obesity may have finally found its match in Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are helping many millions of people ...
Viewpoint: The Green Revolution saved 1-2 billion lives globally. Activists say it was a failure. They’re lying
In the past few years, many environmental and academic activists have been undermining the work of Norman Borlaug and the ...
MAHA ‘Mom’s Militia’ is weaponizing its ‘Children’s First’ disinformation campaign to transform the federal health system
It is unspoken but widely accepted that this moment won’t last. The time will come when the noble knight will ...
Marrying your cousin: Might it provide some evolutionary benefits?
The taboo against cousin marriages may be overblown--and there may even be an evolutionary argument in support of it in ...
Disease is the greatest threat to bee health. Can genetically engineered probiotics help protect them?
If you cannot engineer the organism, engineer its microbiome. Since scientists began exploring how to solve problems using synthetic biology, ...
Viewpoint: Activist hyped study ‘proving’ that glyphosate can cause leukemia is junk science
The discussion around glyphosate, a widely used herbicide, is becoming increasingly charged, especially with new studies surfacing that suggest a ...
Viewpoint: Hollywood’s latest bizarre (un)health fetish: ‘I have Lyme disease!!’
Last week, media outlets were awash with headlines about another celebrity revealing a years-long battle with Lyme disease. Justin Timberlake ...
Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent
Vaccinations not only safeguard individual health but also preserve the collective health of our communities, ensuring that preventable infectious diseases ...
The ‘Mind Diet’: How our diet shapes cognitive health and dementia
There’s long been evidence that what we eat can affect our risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline as we age ...
Viewpoint: ‘Travesty of science’: Latest ‘global glyphosate study’ is a scientific mess issued by the ethically-compromised Ramazzini Institute
In June, the Ramazzini Institute published the results of its long-heralded Global Glyphosate Study via an article in a Ramazzini-managed ...
Why dogs and cats are evolving to look alike?
Domestication has made cats and dogs more diverse, but also curiously alike – with serious implications for their health and ...
GLP spaces on X: Climate change and meat. Separating fact from hype
Red meat is often scapegoated as a major villain in the popular story about our global efforts to prevent a ...
