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Viewpoint: Controversy heats up over ‘informed consent’ for trans-identifying teenagers seeking a sex change operation
In the U.S., the mainstream medical (and legal) community strongly supports gender-affirming care for young people. Most American doctors “maintain… ...
Viewpoint: The health and environmental impacts of glyphosate
A federal reckoning over glyphosate is imminent as the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement gains a foothold with Secretary ...
Global food production has increased 390 percent since 1960. Here’s how farmers have done it
The use of modern seed genetics (which includes genetically modified (GM) crops, chemical and fertilizer use) greatly contributes to improved ...
Is Alzheimer’s disease transmissible?
Five people treated for pituitary dwarfism decades ago with human growth hormone (hGH) pooled from cadavers have shown cognitive decline ...
GLP podcast: Marijuana legalization—smart policy or risk to public health?
With a growing number of US states legalizing marijuana use, scientists and policymakers are once again engaged in a pitched ...
When European politicians and ‘experts’ debate the future of farming, they listen to everyone but farmers
Georges Clemenceau once said war was too important to be left to the generals. Today, in Brussels, agriculture is too ...
Viewpoint: Sustainable agriculture—Why gene editing should be welcomed by organic farmers
Gene editing should be allowed in organic crop cultivation to boost yields and promote more sustainable farming practices, according to ...
Viewpoint: ‘Utter nonsense’—A biologist’s view of the administration’s declaration defining biological sex
It’s odd for me, as a long-time author of college biology textbooks, to witness governments rule on the nature of ...
Climate change challenge: How to ‘future proof’ crops
In a review in The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, Stephen Long, a professor of crop sciences and of plant biology at ...
Viewpoint: Autism epidemic? RFK, Jr. has grifted off of this lie for decades
If you saw the recent HHS Press Briefing by RFK Jr., you’re likely as horrified as I am. RFK Jr ...
Do microplastics pose a threat to food and farming on a global scale?
Microplastics are hindering photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert energy from the sun into the fruit and vegetables we ...
Challenging the ‘multi-billion dollar fear-and-smear campaign against genetically-engineered crops’
Because most of society is between two and six generations removed from farming, to many people that subject is largely ...
Are chemicals causing a decline in fertility in men? Here’s how ideology corrupts evidence-based science
Attempts to make science conform to ideology have enjoyed a long and dispiriting history. For many centuries, religion was the ...
Viewpoint: Natural ≠ better—RFK, Jr.’s recommended ban on artificial dyes provides the ‘illusion of meaningful action’ but no health benefits
Health Secretary RFK Jr. recently announced that eight artificial food dyes will be eliminated from the US food supply by ...
GLP podcast: Activist—tort lawyer—media coalition targets medical equipment devices made with safe PFAS, risking millions of lives
There's a growing panic over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most recently targeting fluoropolymers used in medical devices. The issue ...
Viewpoint: Is Trump’s embrace of nuclear energy a game changer?
President Trump [recently] signed four executive orders aimed at moving the United States’ nuclear industry forward. The executive orders (EOs) ...
GLP Spaces on X: Prescribing with precision—antidepressants without overmedicalization?
There's a ditch on both sides of the road, as the old saying goes, when it comes to antidepressants. While ...
Viewpoint: ‘We are witnessing a full-scale assault on science in the U.S’. That will be RFK, Jr.’s legacy
Back in January, during the second day of confirmation hearings for secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy ...
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Report on Pediatric Gender Dysphoria and Gender Conversion Efforts
Last month, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released Treatment for Pediatric Gender Dysphoria: Review of Evidence and ...
Video: John Stossel and GLP’s Jon Entine on the faux bee-apocalypse—How environmental groups and the media manufacture chemical scares
Have you heard? The honey bees are dying! At least, that’s what the media and big money- hungry environmental groups ...
Blame human evolution for corporate jargon and thick academic prose
For anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization, this kind of message will be depressingly familiar: “Do you have ...
Viewpoint: Following no medical guidance, RFK, Jr. recklessly removes COVID vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant women
Yesterday, in a move that stunned the public health community, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced via Twitter/X that COVID-19 ...
Viewpoint: ‘Get toxins out of our environment’—Despite pledges, Trump’s MAHA policies are making some Americans more vulnerable
In his March address to Congress, President Donald Trump honored a Texas boy diagnosed with brain cancer. Amid bipartisan applause, ...
Seeds of influence: As U.S. and other Western countries hesitate to back biotech in Africa, China is redefining global standards around agricultural innovation
In the heart of Mozambique’s Gaza Province, rice fields stretch across the landscape, a testament to a quiet but powerful ...
Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology
Early last year, the Environmental Working Group and the Green Science Policy Institute launched an attack on a family of ...
On chronic disease, the Make America Healthy Commission misfires, but there are solutions: Rethinking fruits and vegetables
If there is a positive aspect of the Make American Healthy Again movement it is that it brings to the ...
GLP podcast: Should doctors go to jail for prescribing opioids?
In the late 1990s, America began to see a dramatic uptick in the misuse of prescription opioids. Fueled by unethical ...
