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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 ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s Children’s Health Defense botches the science on mRNA vaccines. No, they don’t cause cancer
Last month, researchers published an important study about how mRNA COVID-19 vaccines affect our immune system. The findings are fascinating and highlight ...
Viewpoint: Sustainable intensification—Debunking activist claims that high-yield agriculture leads to industrial monocultures
“Nature organisations have an uneasy relationship with modern agriculture. I think many of them would ideally like to free up ...
Viewpoint: Health danger zone: The political and cultural rise of functional medicine and wellness grifters
From the anti-vaccine movement and COVID denialism to the promotion of raw pet food, the wellness-industrial complex has repeatedly shown ...
Viewpoint: Phase out petrochemical-based plastics in favor of paper to reduce carbon emissions? Scientists challenge activist dogma
The next time someone asks you: Will that be paper or plastic? think twice before you torch the planet by choosing the ...
GM crops have enhanced environmental sustainability. As climate change roils farming, we’ll need even more biotech innovation
hen genetically modified (GM) crops were initially commercialized in the mid to late 1990s, many critics of the new technology ...
Cracking cancer’s code: How science is weaponizing our immune system to target aggressive brain tumors
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had ...
Viewpoint: Indiscriminate cuts of agricultural climate programs undercut American productivity
As the Trump administration reviews federal programs, reduces the federal workforce, and prepares its 2026 budget proposal, cuts to climate-related ...
With malaria ravaging East Africa at a rising rate, European and U.S. backed anti-vaxxers target lifesaving vaccines
In early April, at the national launch of Uganda's malaria vaccine, 31-year-old Caroline Akot cradled her 9-month-old child, who had ...
Viewpoint: ‘Forever chemical’ hustle—The ‘dark money’—environmental group—tort lawyer alliance that is scaring the public about PFAS chemicals and filling activist coffers
The mainstream media is being inundated with articles about “forever chemicals” invading our bodies and the environment. It is meant ...
Viewpoint: The wellness industry is rife with bad science and fraud. It’s gaining traction
The wellness Industry has made a business of scaring people into thinking they are at risk from the benign and ...
What impact will the global trade war and RFK, Jr.’s MAHA agenda have on European farming, health and the U.S. science brain drain?
A global trade war jeopardizes agriculture worldwide. EU’s Farm to Fork plan also faces criticism. Jon Entine, editor-in-chief of the ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how the MAGA—liberal ‘wellness warriors’ science disinformation ecosystem works
Tired of seeing evidence get steamrolled by vibes and wellness profiteering? Me too. We are currently living in an era ...
Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin
I wish that I could stop reposting this essay – I do so whenever limitations on women’s reproductive rights become ...
Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues
Few environmental issues are more controversial than the potential danger of pesticides used to tame weeds and disease in crops ...
GLP podcast: ‘Industrial’ food is very nutritious; Porn might be harmful; Love of music is (partially) in your genes
This week on Facts and Fallacies, a farmer and plant geneticist refutes activist claims that modern agriculture drastically reduces nutrient ...
Viewpoint: More a vibe than a coalition—RFK, Jr. rose to popularity with the support of gadflies, conspiracists and crystal healers. Are they turning on him?
After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make ...
No, farmers who use agricultural chemicals do not have higher cancer rates
There is now scientific consensus that pesticides cause cancer among farmers. This conclusion has been confirmed by the courts insofar ...
Synthetic biology may be the only way to survive and thrive on Mars and beyond
A field known as synthetic biology has become one of the most highly anticipated in science. Its outputs range from ...
GLP Spaces on X: End public science funding—sensible policy or sheer madness?
Is it time to eliminate public funding for scientific research? It's an undeniably radical proposal, but one supporters say is ...
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Viewpoint: Why does ‘Big Organic’ oppose hydroponics and other sustainable farming innovations? [Hint: $$$]
I get pitches for stories every day and sometimes I want to see if the world that opposes science has ...
X, Y, sex and gender: When genetics pulls a fast one
The spectrum of information that can be obtained by prenatal testing is wide and rapidly increasing. Many mutations, or "abnormalities," ...
Viewpoint: Organic or intensive agriculture? Brazil reframes the debate over the most promising future for farming
It's the year 2050, and the world's population has just passed 9 billion people. Economic growth has lifted hundreds of ...
Viewpoint: Food dyes? Herbicides? Vaccines? … Water? Yes, they are all toxic depending upon the circumstances so beware of scare claims
We are back at it with the next edition of Fundamental Elements, a new section of ImmunoLogic. The goal? Break ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how Environmental Working Group’s Carey Gillam, Le Monde and the Oak Foundation destroy reputations while promoting the tort industry
The small media and political monitoring company v-Fluence – also known for one of its products, Bonus Eventus – has been the target ...
