Science Controversies
Will Trump move to end safe routine childhood vaccines at the urging of RFK, Jr.?
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump in an interview ... said he will be talking to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his nominee ...
Twelve states mandate water fluoridation. What might happen if RFK, Jr. is approved as HHS secretary?
President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the nation’s health agency, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has railed against the practice of ...
Homo juluensis: Big-headed early human is a new branch on our expanding family tree
Researchers have identified a new species of ancient humans, which they have named Homo juluensis, meaning "big head," based partly on ...
Viewpoint: Back to the 1980s—Federal suit won by anti-crop biotechnology activists could cripple US agricultural gene editing innovation
On December 2, the Northern California District Court vacated rules adopted in 2020 by the U.S. Department of Agriculture through ...
200 million people worldwide now have legal access to assisted suicide and Britain is debating it. Is it compassion or murder?
A bill proposing the legalization of assisted dying for terminally ill patients is being presented to the UK Parliament.... The bill has sparked ...
California federal judge says USDA must more tightly regulate GM crops but impact of the ruling is still unclear
A federal court [has] overturned a rule exempting genetically engineered plants from pre-market review, saying the U.S. Department of Agriculture ...
Viewpoint: Europe is years behind the rest of the world in approving gene edited crops (and the future looks no better)
Since 2021, when the European Commission began to analyse the situation and concluded that the regulatory framework was not suitable ...
Mano a mano: Expect a knockdown fight between HHS secretary RFK, Jr. and Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins if they both get approved
When Donald Trump announced his pick to lead the Agriculture Department last month, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s team was blindsided, according to ...
Viewpoint—Podcast: ‘Trans people are the perfect targets’: The Supreme Court leaning toward upholding Tennessee’s ban on sex change operations for minors
Trump and the G.O.P. will have a governing trifecta in the new year, and amid the many policies that ...
Viewpoint: ‘It is a myth or a lie to contend that New Zealand is GM free’
There have been claims by Organics Aotearoa New Zealand and other groups that the change in the regulation of genetic technologies ...
Viewpoint: Feminist social justice post-modernist professor rejects reproductive ‘technological innovations’ because they promote ‘intersectional oppressions’
Gig work in childcare, nursing, and transportation; non-invasive prenatal testing; gene editing; and space expeditions can all be attributed to ...
Elon Musk’s spermatozoa: Trump’s new billionaire friend offers his seed as part of a global plan to spur more procreation
Is Elon Musk the dinner party guest from hell? It sure seems that way. Not only is the man desperate ...
In a legal first, transgender lawyer argues before the Supreme Court challenging ban on hormone treatments
Chase Strangio will step into the U.S. Supreme Court [December 3] to argue a case that could fundamentally reshape the ...
Uproar in South Africa where debate intensifies over legalizing gene-edited babies
What is the legal status of heritable human genome editing (HHGE)? In 2020, a comprehensive policy analysis by Baylis, Darnovsky, Hasson, ...
‘Food is personal and cultural”: No assurance that European consumers will ever embrace gene-altered food
“People are pretty OK with using biotech or genetic modification or even gene editing on things that they don’t eat,” ...
Longevity expert says tinkering with the aging process won’t help you live longer
“We don’t have an ageing intervention yet,” says [Dr Stuart Jay Olshansky] ... The only way humans are going to ...
We all bear the consequences of Neanderthal and Denisovan promiscuity
For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the ...
You are taking Ozempic or Wegovy and aren’t losing weight? 20% of patients are in the same boat. Here’s why
In clinical trials, most participants taking Wegovy or Mounjaro to treat obesity lost an average of 15% to 22% of ...
Republicans wary about RFK’s pledge to ‘wage war against ‘industrial agriculture, industrial meat production, factory farming and chemical based agriculture’
Republican Senators on Capitol Hill ... share their hesitations about [Donald] Trump’s preferred candidate to lead the Department of Health ...
Will RFK Jr. blow up the left-right divide on food policy?
The food policy dynamic in Washington, D.C., has been consistent for decades. Democrats favor more government intervention in food production ...
‘It’s a crime not to increase the population’: Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri’s unprecedented rationale for banning women from seeking an abortion
The attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas, and Missouri, seeking to establish the states’ standing to challenge the federal government’s liberalized ...
‘RFK Jr. will need a lot of educating’: Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley says he wants to meet with HHS nominee his misinformation about farming and food
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Tuesday acknowledged concerns about what Robert Kennedy Jr.’s nomination as HHS secretary might mean for the U.S ...
GLP podcast: Psychedelics an overhyped depression cure? ‘Suicide pod’ used for the first time; Tuition-free medical school—blessing or curse?
A steady stream of studies and news stories has presented psychedelics as a game-changing therapy for depression. This may have ...
GLP podcast: Fighting cancer with vaccines; ‘Regulator-activist-legal complex’ undermines innovation
Therapeutic vaccines for some cancers have entered clinical trials. Do they represent the future of cancer treatment? Regulations, fearmongering campaigns ...
Viewpoint: Human gene editing does not equate with eugenics
Eugenics has a terrible history. But if we now have the power to alleviate suffering using gene editing, when does ...
Research into human embryo modeling is rapidly advancing the field but raising just as many ethical concerns
[D]ozens of labs are competing to grow the best likeness of a human embryo. … This high-stakes, high-drama period “is ...
Viewpoint: Patent reform in agriculture? Allow ‘seed biosimilars’, copying the success in the pharmaceutical industry
When a pharmaceutical product goes off-patent, within days the market is flooded with biosimilars (generics) that bring prices down and ...
