Ketamine may become the next in-demand' antidepressant

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

Viewpoint: ‘We are witnessing a full-scale assault on science in the U.S’. That will be RFK, Jr.’s legacy

Geoffrey Kabat |
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

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Report on Pediatric Gender Dysphoria and Gender Conversion Efforts

Lindsey Dawson |
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

Video: John Stossel and GLP’s Jon Entine on the faux bee-apocalypse—How environmental groups and the media manufacture chemical scares

John Stossel, Jon Entine |
Have you heard? The honey bees are dying! At least, that’s what the media and big money- hungry environmental groups ...
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Blame human evolution for corporate jargon and thick academic prose

Patrick Whittle |
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

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

Viewpoint: ‘Get toxins out of our environment’—Despite pledges, Trump’s MAHA policies are making some Americans more vulnerable

Stephanie Armour |
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

Seeds of influence: As U.S. and other Western countries hesitate to back biotech in Africa, China is redefining global standards around agricultural innovation

Joseph Maina |
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

Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology

Jon Entine |
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 

On chronic disease, the Make America Healthy Commission misfires, but there are solutions: Rethinking fruits and vegetables 

Kevin Folta |
If there is a positive aspect of the Make American Healthy Again movement it is that it brings to the ...
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GLP podcast: Should doctors go to jail for prescribing opioids?

Cameron English, Ron Chapman |
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

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

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

Viewpoint: Health danger zone: The political and cultural rise of functional medicine and wellness grifters

Henry Miller |
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

Viewpoint: Phase out petrochemical-based plastics in favor of paper to reduce carbon emissions? Scientists challenge activist dogma

David Zaruk |
The next time someone asks you: Will that be paper or plastic? think twice before you torch the planet by choosing the ...
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GM crops have enhanced environmental sustainability. As climate change roils farming, we’ll need even more biotech innovation

Stuart Smyth |
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

Cracking cancer’s code: How science is weaponizing our immune system to target aggressive brain tumors

Henry Miller |
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

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

With malaria ravaging East Africa at a rising rate, European and U.S. backed anti-vaxxers target lifesaving vaccines

Peter Wamboga-Mugirya |
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

Viewpoint: ‘Forever chemical’ hustle—The ‘dark money’—environmental group—tort lawyer alliance that is scaring the public about PFAS chemicals and filling activist coffers

David Zaruk |
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

Viewpoint: The wellness industry is rife with bad science and fraud. It’s gaining traction

Katie Suleta |
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?

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?

Jon Entine |
A global trade war jeopardizes agriculture worldwide.  EU’s Farm to Fork plan also faces criticism. Jon Entine, editor-in-chief of the ...
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Viewpoint: Here’s how the MAGA—liberal ‘wellness warriors’ science disinformation ecosystem works

Andrea Love |
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

Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin

Ricki Lewis |
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 

Viewpoint: Concerned whether pesticides in the environment are safe? Listen to hands-on experts, not ideologues 

Geoffrey Kabat |
Few environmental issues are more controversial than the potential danger of pesticides used to tame weeds and disease in crops ...
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?

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?

Stephanie Armour |
After the Senate voted to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary, supporters of his “Make ...
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GLP podcast: ‘Industrial’ food is very nutritious; Porn might be harmful; Love of music is (partially) in your genes

Cameron English, Liza Dunn |
This week on Facts and Fallacies, a farmer and plant geneticist refutes activist claims that modern agriculture drastically reduces nutrient ...