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U.S. defunding International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), UN-affiliated group that issued cancer warnings for glyphosate, steak, and getting a haircut
The United States’s withdrawal this year from the World Health Organization (WHO) is having knock-on effects on an influential global ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s unethical plan to run a Tuskegee-like syphilis experiment in West Africa to ‘prove’ hepatitis B vaccines cause neurological damage
Every generation needs to learn about what is commonly known as the Tuskegee syphilis study, which ran from 1932 to ...
Viewpoint—After the vaccine policy wrecking ball: Taking stock one year after RFK, Jr. abandoned science
This past month, my kids’ small-town school has been in crisis mode. Budget shortfalls, emergency meetings, parents scrambling to understand ...
White House clamps down on RFK, Jr.’s vaccine rejectionism but he reportedly retains Trump’s support
The White House is more tightly controlling the messaging and policies—including around vaccines—coming from the Department of Health and Human ...
The intersection of vaccinations and faith: Should the ultra-religious get exemptions from mandatory vaccines shots?
From the perspective of mainstream scientific medicine, the choice between vaccination and potentially fatal diseases seem obvious. So are religious ...
Viewpoint: Check on scare “science”—Claims about the human health dangers of microplastics are collapsing
Since the rise of MAHA in US policy, journalists have been starting to question the findings of activist scientists, and ...
Viewpoint: Why health practitioners need to be disciplined for spreading misinformation—and why that’s so challenging
Unfortunately, in most cases health misinformation has been allowed to stand with very few, if any, professional consequences. Some prominent ...
Cosmetics offers a case study in the dangers of science misinformation
When we think about misinformation, we tend to picture election interference, geopolitical propaganda or pandemic conspiracy theories. But misinformation does ...
Don’t take over-the-counter fish oil supplements for your heart, joints or depression, science says
Fish oil, also known as omega-3, is among the most popular dietary supplements. It’s often promoted to protect the heart, boost ...
RFK, Jr. and MAHA wellness influencers are wrong about seed oils. Here’s a guide
Are seed oils harmful? Social media trends and wellness influencers often say yes. Some restaurants now advertise seed oil–free menus. The ...
Case study on conspiracy theories in the digital age: Bill Gates and Covid
Long before COVID-19, [Bill] Gates was a leading voice in advocating for pandemic preparedness, funding vaccine research and infrastructure in ...
‘You only need to put a few knicks in the brain’: FDA is bizarrely demanding fake brain surgery to assess Huntington’s disease therapy
Katie Jackson desperately wants a new treatment for Huntington’s disease. Her husband died from the devastating brain disorder. And because ...
RFK, Jr. getting heat from MAHA for bowing to Trump and ‘abandoning’ anti-vaccine dogma
On Mr. Kennedy’s watch, millions of children in recent months still received Covid shots, “the deadliest vaccine ever made,” as ...
Microplastics as a blueprint for health scares: How the “panic pipeline” of activists and academics partners with tort lawyers to manufacture chemical crises
We’ve seen this fear-to-filing pipeline repeatedly in other contested controversies — most recently involving Tylenol and food additives — where ...
Viewpoint — The Lancet on RFK, Jr.: A year of failure
... Politicians are known to break promises, but Kennedy's record, 1 year in, has been a failure by most measures, ...
Viewpoint—Challenging misinformation spreaders: Three prominent doctors speak out
Should doctors engage with “misinformation spreaders?” That’s the question Dr. Jeremy Faust asked vaccine promoter Dr. Paul Offit and social ...
Eerily human-like embryo models are being crafted from stem cells in laboratories, raising ethical concerns
Researchers are racing to engineer highly realistic human embryo models using stem cells in the lab. Some of the newest ...
Nine deadly vaccine myths that RFK, Jr. and MAHA promote
In consulting rooms across America, physicians face a challenge that no medical school prepared them for. A parent arrives with ...
If you’ve identified as transgender or nonbinary in Kansas, you’ve just lost your ID and driver’s license
The number of bills directly targeting and undermining the existing legal rights of transgender and nonbinary people in the U.S ...
Anti-aging peptide therapies don’t work despite touts by RFK, Jr., Jennifer Anison and Gwenyth Paltrow—and millions of their followers
Droves of wellness enthusiasts, biohackers, social-media influencers, and celebrities are injecting experimental “anti-aging” peptides in the hopes of boosting energy, ...
Understanding the evolution of individuality—Fruit flies may have an answer
As a Ph.D. student, I wanted to understand the evolution of individual differences in fruit fly behavior – the building ...
Stung by polls, Trump retreats from anti-vax rhetoric. Florida aligns with RFK, Jr. rejectionism
President Donald Trump is urging Republicans nationwide to move away from anti-vaccine messaging ahead of the Midterms. Still, in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis is ...
As measles cases soar in South Carolina, RFK, Jr.’s disciples lobby to gut vaccine mandates
As South Carolina grapples with a measles outbreak that has infected nearly 1,000 people, groups with ties to the US health secretary, Robert F Kennedy ...
Bamboo shoots are the next ‘superfood’? Don’t believe the hype, it’s not based on science
According to the New York Post, our research team has discovered a much-overlooked “superfood”: bamboo shoots. Before you rush out ...
Make Europe Healthy Again? MAHA movement crosses the Atlantic
... Robert Malone, a medical doctor and prominent adviser to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., spoke for more than 45 minutes ...
‘Consensus science’ is under attack
A growing distrust of expertise is reshaping the terrain of science in the United States. Since the pandemic, the partisan ...
How to spot fake science news
How to choose your news video describes tips to choose news and separate face from opinion. Our Evaluate news information ...
