Science Controversies
Viewpoint: As MAHA blows up over Supreme Court ruling limiting glyphosate litigation, Trump offers toothless plan to reduce pesticides in food
President Trump, facing a backlash from supporters of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for allying himself with the chemical ...
PEW study: The sick state of American health information
Most Americans say it’s important to be healthy, but fewer think they are doing a good job at managing their ...
Viewpoint: Why are there no approved bioengineered insect-protected (Bt) apples?
642 separate Bioengineered (aka, GM/GMO, recombinant DNA) events, of 42 traits, in 32 different crops or plants have received regulatory ...
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 ...
From infrared sauna blankets to collagen gummies, here’s the top 10 social-media-promoted wellness shams
The wellness industry has become a multi-billion-dollar business built around one simple promise: feeling better. Better sleep. Better skin. Better ...
Viewpoint: Glyphosate may be hazardous, but it is not dangerous as used by farmers. Critics of the Supreme Court’s Roundup ruling garble hazard with risk
... In epidemiology, causation is usually a population-level inference. Researchers ask whether an exposure reliably changes disease risk across groups of ...
Viewpoint—Junk science: How predatory mass tort lawyers twist facts, scare the public about phantom chemical risks, and cash in on billion-dollar settlements
Too many mass tort litigations are being resolved based on so-called “expert” testimony that is, in reality, less than reliable ...
Miracle cure or medical mirage? As scientists strip away the hype over psychedelic therapy, evidence of the benefits fades.
Over the last decade, we’ve seen scientific interest in these drugs explode. But most clinical trials of psychedelics have been small ...
Viewpoint: Disinformation grift: The wellness industry is a lucrative and mostly worthless marketplace of ‘balms, brews, and baloney’
Wellness used to mean getting your vitamins from food and eliminating waste in a toilet. Today it means supplements, colonics, ...
Viewpoint: Which is worse: Trace PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ on strawberries or the fear that scares people away from eating them?
A wellness blog called Mamavation had a lab test two containers of Driscoll’s from a single store on a single ...
Viewpoint: From magnetizing your head to taking useless supplements, the wellness craze has morphed into an obsession of the affluent
The health world is awash with what is sometimes referred to, a bit too politely in my opinion, as “woo”; ...
From printers to pigs: The precarious future of organ transplants
At any given time, the US transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Even with a record 41,356 transplants ...
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 ...
Viewpoint: The facts behind the grifter-promoting wellness and anti-aging peptide craze: Don’t waste your money
The wellness craze of the moment. Peptides themselves are just short chains of amino acids, the same building blocks that ...
Is cellular reprogramming junk science? Nearly 20 patients are getting eye injections in the first FDA-cleared cellular trial
It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique ...
Why the human genome is less a script than a puzzle
It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does ...
Leading OB-GYN group challenges RFK, Jr. gutting of maternal vaccine schedule
The leading professional organization for obstetricians and gynecologists in the US has launched its first maternal vaccination schedule and diverged ...
No, Bill Gates did not secretly engineer ticks to promote veganism
"WEAPONIZED TICKS ARE HERE -- AND IT'S NO ACCIDENT! Genetically modified ticks are exploding across America, triggering Alpha-Gal Syndrome," claims a May ...
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 ...
Desperate patients of autistic children paying up to $20,000 for bogus stem cell injections recommended by RFK, Jr.
Autistic children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in ...
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 ...
After Mel Gibson’s Joe Rogan comments, grifters promoting ivermectin, without evidence, as a hantavirus preventive
"Hantavirus is a RNA virus, and ivermectin should work against it," claims a May 6, 2026 post on X from Mary Talley ...
AI’s promotion of ‘fake news’ erodes everyday thinking, MIT study reveals
Yet another study shows that the more you let artificial intelligence do the thinking for you, the less capable you ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. ignores oversight of vast HHS programs to focus on his pet obsessions—and gets much of the science wrong
Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Psychedelics for PTSD? Examining RFK, Jr’s claims about ibogaine
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined the chorus of psychedelic advocates who claim the drugs could revolutionize mental health care, ...
Trump and climate change skeptics misrepresent updated climate-emissions scenarios to claim projections were bogus
In a May 16 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump cited updated climate change scenarios to misleadingly claim that experts ...
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 ...
