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Viewpoint: Polyphenols or NAD+ supplements to combat aging: No, Gwenyth Paltrow and followers, don’t waste your money.
“No, I don’t.” That’s my answer to the increasingly frequent questions I’ve been asked about whether I take anti-aging supplements ...
Viewpoint: Long-contained diseases are on the rise in the U.S. Are Trump cuts to blame?
As beachgoers flock to water during the busy July Fourth weekend, danger could be lurking in some areas. Researchers this ...
As the EU loosens restrictions on agricultural gene editing, it remains years behind the rest of the world on equally-safe GMO foods
The sante-eNews Newsletter from 2 June 2026 announced another GMO decision. The title claims that the European “Commission authorises use ...
Viewpoint: Europe’s rejection of air conditioning is the poster child for misunderstanding how to mitigate the impact of climate change
Europe is warming: ~0.5°C per decade since the 1980s. Figure 1 shows the continent’s annual count of days since 1950 ...
Viewpoint: SCOTUS strikes a blow against junk science in Bayer glyphosate case. Will it deter mass tort litigators?
Mass tort litigation grows like weeds. Last week, the Supreme Court created the ultimate lawsuit-killer by rejecting state court claims ...
‘Alternative’ cancer treatments that could kill you
The diagnosis of cancer brings fear, uncertainty, and an urgent search for control. In that vulnerable moment, alternative cancer therapies ...
Viewpoint: Europe clears the way for gene-edited crops — but fear-driven restrictions still slow their full potential
On 17 June 2026, the European Parliament adopted new rules on plants obtained by certain new genomic techniques (NGTs), including the ...
Viewpoint: Trump poised to politicize all U.S.-supported science research
I recall the precise moment I realized U.S. science was in for a very rough time. My wife and I ...
World’s first AI-designed vaccine explained
Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI) ...
Viewpoint: In the science misinformed grifter game plan, the organic-food-is-healthier myth might be the worst.
Organic food marketing, vaccine denialism, cancer pseudoscience, climate denial, wellness culture, and conspiracy theories may look different, but they're all ...
Viewpoint: The Lackland flu outbreak is fading but Hegseth’s military anti-vaccine fiasco is not
The flu outbreak at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland has now become more than a military installation health problem. It is ...
Viewpoint—Gutting the CDC: Survey of current and past CDC workforce accuses RFK, Jr. and Trump of destroying the agency and endangering public health
Since the Trump administration took office in January 2025, the workforce at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has ...
Ideological red flag: Led by anti-vax doctor, Tennessee is now the U.S. epicenter selling potent ivermectin shown worthless to prevent or treat Covid
Four years ago, Tennessee became the first state to allow adults to buy the antiparasitic drug ivermectin from a pharmacy ...
Transgender female athletes and Title IX: Separating ‘policy’ from ‘legality’
The Supreme Court on [June 30, 2026] ruled that states can exclude transgender athletes from women’s and girls’ sports teams. The ...
Even in blue states, hospitals have continued to drop gender-affirming care for youths
One afternoon in late 2024, a sixth-grader nicknamed Bug came home from school with an announcement to make. Bug, who ...
Viewpoint: The dangerous influence of ‘woke’ post-modernism in science
From an article in Science magazine by journalist Rachael Zamzow, we learn that many social scientists believe that a published ...
America’s trust in Trump-Kennedy’s CDC health recommendations is plunging
More than a year into President Donald Trump’s second term, poll findings released on [June 9, 2026] showed that trust in federal ...
Anguished parents, doctors in tears: Utah’s long measles outbreak takes a toll
Ben Dowse hadn’t expected to treat measles when he became a doctor, but there he was, examining a newborn exposed ...
Viewpoint: More and more younger men are falling outside our health system. What can reverse this?
Recently, on a podcast, someone asked me how public health should be communicating about vaccines to young adults, and I ...
Kennedy’s nutrition prescription for medical schools: Real problem, bad cure
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has turned a recognized challenge — medical students receive too little ...
Viewpoint: As the International Association for Research on Cancer loses influence, activists and trial lawyers scramble to protect a lucrative playbook
This past week, US Department of State, together (nominally) with the Department of Health and Human Services, effectively discredited any ...
Daubert for Dummies—Scientific Reliability in U.S. Courts: Daubert, Rule 702, and Made-for-Litigation Evidence
A New York federal appeals court is poised to decide one of the more consequential courtroom battles over scientific evidence ...
Viewpoint: Embryos are becoming the newest battleground of love, loss, and legal uncertainty
Who owns a future-person? As IVF outpaces the law, embryos are becoming the newest battleground of love, loss, and legal ...
Viewpoint: ‘Industrial food’ primer—Challenging the dangerous delusions of the alternative food movement
Eat real food. It’s the closest thing American alternative food politics has to a creed, and for the better part ...
Viewpoint: While unvaccinated children are dying overseas, Congress challenges Trump and Kennedy’s block on aid
A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to restore US funding for Gavi, the Vaccine ...
Viewpoint: “Turn on, tune in, drop out”—Kennedy embraces the Timothy Leary psychedelic revolution
U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is sticking his fingers into many pies. One of these contains psychedelics that are ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine deniers are attacking a life-saving Vitamin K shot for newborns that isn’t even a vaccine
Newborns routinely receive the Vitamin K shot immediately after birth to prevent vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), a rare but ...
