Science Controversies
GLP podcast: COVID shots in 2025. Who needs a booster and why?
Five years after COVID-19 began to turn the world upside down, controversy continues to rage around the life-saving mRNA vaccines ...
‘Three parent babies’ aren’t new. Here is what science has accomplished so far
[E]ight babies have been born in the UK following an experimental form of IVF that involves DNA from three people ...
‘Disconnected from biological and agrultural reality’: Green Party opponents of deregulating gene editing in New Zealand slammed by scientists
Claims made by gene technology opponents in arguments surrounding the Gene Tech Bill suggesting gene-editing of plants could occur via ...
Viewpoint: Why people do not accept the scientific fact of evolution
If the theory of evolution is so profound and proven, why doesn’t everyone accept it as true? ... Evolution is ...
Viewpoint: Activist hypocrisy — It makes no sense to use genetic engineering to treat disease but limit it to grow food sustainably
As a biomedical scientist working in cancer and infectious disease immunology, I’ve spent decades working with genetic tools and genetic ...
GLP Spaces on X: Misinfo from the mainstream. Hypocritical pediatricians blast RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx stance while flouting consensus on GMOs
You can't be a stalwart defender of scientific consensus, expertise and evidence-based medicine while taking contrarian positions on critical public ...
EU orders further studies on glyphosate in the wake of controversial study in which activist scientists used cancer-prone rats and found some developed cancer
The European Commission has told two EU agencies to run a study for up to 21 months to figure out ...
Challenging RFK. Jr.’s misstatements on aluminum in vaccines: ‘No, the microscopic amounts play no role in autism’
Cumulative aluminum exposure from vaccination during the first 2 years of life did not raise the risk of autism, asthma, ...
‘Three parent baby’ medical first:Â Male sperm and eggs from two women combined to create an embryo free from inherited mitochondrial disease
Mitochondrial disorders can cause serious health problems, including paralysis, heart failure, brain damage, strokes and blindness. ... The disorders are ...
Video: Nuclear energy will destroy us? Global warming is an existential threat? Chemicals are massacring bees? Donate to the Green Industrial Complex!
In an eye-opening exchange, John Stossel sits down with Jon Entine, an award-winning journalist and Executive Director of the Genetic ...
Malaysia scientists hopeful government will reform laws to open the way for sustainable gene-edited rice
Since 2021, several scientists have been developing new genetically edited rice varieties with targeted traits, such as resistance to disease ...
Viewpoint: How the Washington Post became a megaphone for Green Billionaires peddling environmental misinformation
There was a time when environmental journalists at least made an effort to present their coverage in a balanced manner ...
Republicans in Congress and RFK, Jr. find common ground in using psychedelics to treat traumatized veterans
Driven by a desire to help ex-servicemembers with mental illness, GOP lawmakers led a failed campaign last year to persuade the Biden ...
More evidence that autism is genetic and potentially treatable
Researchers at Princeton University and the Simons Foundation have identified four clinically and biologically distinct subtypes of autism, marking a ...
GLP spaces on X: The ‘Dirty Dozen,’ dissected
Each year the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) "Dirty Dozen" list ranks fruits and vegetables with the supposedly highest pesticide residues, ...
Bird flu? Don’t worry, we fired the scientists
The Trump administration’s recent decision to cancel $766 million in funding to vaccine company Moderna for the development of a ...
Is Elon Musk’s Grok-4 AI anti-semitic?
In a series of posts on X, the AI chatbot Grok apologized for what it admitted was "horrific behavior." The ...
Viewpoint: Jim O’Neill: The  controversial longevity promoter and now RFK, Jr.’s second in command stirs worry in the public health community
As Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new right-hand man, [Jim] O’Neill is expected to wield authority at health agencies that fund ...
Viewpoint: How well-intended mask mandates and lockdowns fueled the establishment science-skeptical MAHA movement
Every time I post about vaccine science, the responses are swift and predictable: "Where was the evidence for the lockdowns ...
Is the American Academy of Pediatrics a stalwart defender of science and vaccines or a biotechnology science rejectionist? Sadly, it’s both
In a rare but pointed rebuke of federal health policy, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) filed a federal lawsuit ...
Opportunities, challenges and concerns as gene edited pigs may soon be on the regulatory platter in Europe
The US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) recent decision [approving gene edited pigs] has prompted [quesions about] what this technology ...
The science of seed oils: Healthy or harmful?
The Dirt Seed oils have become the most recent food to avoid. Despite being a staple in every diet and ...
GLP podcast: Has MAHA made vaccine denial a right-wing cause?
The ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. has fueled intense speculation about how politics influences vaccine hesitancy. With over 1,200 ...
 ‘Designer baby’ startup: Controversal germline editing company Bootstrap Bio raising money for germline gene editing launch
A California-startup focused on genetically editing human embryos — a step toward creating so-called designer babies — is raising money ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation’
It’s springtime in the US, which means the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases their annual Dirty Dozen list, the bane ...
Viewpoint: Formerly anonymous author of May HHS recommendation limiting pediatric gender surgeries reflects on report’s hostile reception
In May, the Department of Health and Human Services published a comprehensive review of treatments for gender dysphoria in minors that was swiftly criticized, ...
Lab-grown salmon on sale in the U.S.: First seafood to earn FDA approval
The Coho salmon, pinkish orange and streaked with lines of white fat, wasn’t wild-caught in Alaska or farmed in Chile. It ...
