Newsletter GLP Human
Viewpoint: Dr. Joseph Mercola’s war on mainstream medicine — ‘His take on the pandemic is a lucrative conspiratorial dream’
Dr. Joe Mercola, an osteopathic physician who has made an impressive fortune selling supplements through his online store, has a ...
Maybe both sides are right: If SARS-CoV-2 was leaked from a Wuhan lab, it doesn’t mean the virus was necessarily engineered
The “lab leak” hypothesis about the origin of Covid-19 has been getting a lot of attention lately, and deservedly so ...
6 eyewitnesses identified a Texas man as a murderer. It took forensic DNA to prove they were wrong — sparking conversation on how to prevent ‘lineup bias’
On the strength of six eyewitnesses’ lineup identifications, Lydell Grant was sentenced to life in prison in 2012 for the murder ...
GLP Podcast: Hollywood’s vaccine-autism nonsense; COVID lab-leak story won’t die; Africa ignores Greenpeace on pesticides
Many Hollywood celebrities have endorsed the bogus link between vaccines to autism. Looking back, it appears their influence has been ...
Viewpoint: Zantac BS—Sanofi’s marketing sleight-of-hand in ‘reformulating’ its Zantac acid-reducer deceives consumers
Back in 2019, I wrote about some of the tricks that drug companies use to hang onto brand name sales ...
Anti-biotechnology critics say the Genetic Literacy Project is a Monsanto-funded ‘corporate front’. It’s not true. Here is the documentation — and a review of the critics behind the disinformation
Activist groups opposed to agricultural biotechnology (GMOs and gene edited crops and animals) repeatedly claim that the Genetic Literacy Project ...
X-ray vision to peer into the rubble of collapsed buildings or check for booby traps? The science of the future is now
Within seconds after reaching a city, earthquakes can cause immense destruction: Houses crumble, high-rises turn to rubble, people and animals ...
Viewpoint: ‘Magic promised by genetically pruning ‘defective’ embryos has fairy-dusted the eyes of even the most intelligent’ — Maybe it’s time to hit the pause button
Advances in genetics have been revolutionized in the last few years. First came CRISPR, which can edit single genes, possibly ...
Organ transplantation: Challenging ethical questions on race, economics, and the meaning of life
At an international conference on kidney transplantation in 1963, a disagreement broke out about exactly when a patient should be considered ...
Which provides better long-term protection against coronavirus reinfection: An actual infection or a vaccine?
Two recent studies have confirmed that people previously infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, can be reinfected with ...
Viewpoint: Why the Wuhan lab escape theory explaining the origin of the global pandemic isn’t going away anytime soon
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives the world over for more than a year. Its death toll will soon reach ...
Viewpoint: Suspending COVID vaccine patents will not solve the supply problem or hasten the end of the pandemic
In a recent Washington Post column, Fareed Zakaria wrote: The United States is entering a post-pandemic era. This is happening primarily ...
Podcast: Bad science in the headlines—Epidemiologist Geoffrey Kabat explains how to spot flawed research on Google News
A just-published study found that consuming two or more sugar-sweetened beverages in a day is linked to a doubling of ...
Genomic Cold War? More nations joining the US in using biotechnology to enhance military capabilities
The UK government recently announced an £800 million, taxpayer-funded Advanced Research and Invention Agency (Aria). The brainchild of the British ...
Incurable Huntington’s disease? microRNA offers hope in the wake of failed clinical trials
A recent DNA Science post considered the ebb and flow of treatment possibilities for Alzheimer’s disease. This week, it’s Huntington’s disease. Like ...
Viewpoint: ‘Make America Safe Again’—Conservative calls for fellow rightists to get vaccinated
As a conservative, I praised most of President Trump’s efforts to “Make America great again,” including the financial incentive to ...
Science Facts and Fallacies Podcast: COVID’s mysterious origins; Why some anti-vaxxers got their shots; Unwise J&J ‘pause’?
Where did SARS-COV-2 come from? For most of the last year a natural origin story was the predominant view among ...
Why do some animals live extraordinarily long lives — and can humans benefit from studying them?
Life, for most of us, ends far too soon — hence the effort by biomedical researchers to find ways to ...
‘In nature, everything is connected’: Can synthetic biology reverse the decline in our depleted marine ecosystem?
Our blue planet runs on ocean ecosystems that are currently in steep decline. In the last 50 years, the amount ...
Vaccine equity: This is what the US is doing to ensure widespread global access to COVID-19 vaccines
The U.S. is expected to soon have enough COVID-19 vaccine doses on hand to fully vaccinate just about everyone in ...
Impact of false negative COVID tests: Some patients have Long Covid symptoms but have been denied medical coverage
Kristin Novotny once led an active life, with regular CrossFit workouts and football in the front yard with her children ...
Viewpoint: ‘Dump Dimorphism’ — Challenging orthodoxy, neuroscientists claim 30 years of studies show ‘no meaningful male-female brain differences’
Everyone knows the difference between male and female brains. One is chatty and a little nervous, but never forgets and takes ...
Science Facts and Fallacies podcast: Dr. Paul Offit takes on anti-vaccine activism as COVID shots stem new infections
Early in the pandemic, Children's Health Defense—the anti-vaccine group headed by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.—alleged that SARS-COV-2 was being used ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine resistance is a growing concern. So far, the US is bungling its response
Research shows that vaccine skepticism appeals to people who already distrust authority. Solutions proposed during the COVID-19 pandemic may be ...
‘Super smellers’: 4 ways some people are hard-wired to sniff out even the subtlest aromas
Do certain smells make you feel uncomfortable, even nauseous? Or is your nose so good that you can detect even ...
Podcast: ‘GMOs’ are more natural than you think; CRISPR mosquitoes fight malaria; Dating apps and syphilis
A growing body of research shows that dozens of naturally transgenic plants have existed for millions of years, undermining a ...
Viewpoint: COVID lockdown denialists are immune to the hard realities of a relentless virus
I am no lockdown junkie. I’d like to get that straight before I explain why the most extreme variant of ...
