Science Controversies

Social media has been awash in panic as one influencer after another wrongly warns prospective parents against the routine (and ...

Tobacco companies spent decades honing marketing strategies, flavor engineering and processing technologies that helped addict consumers to cigarettes. Then, in ...

Testosterone. Methenolone. Nandrolone. Human growth hormone and EPO. Meldonium, modafinil, and mixed amphetamine salts. Clomiphene, anastrozole, levothyroxine, and liothyronine. Patches ...

Turmeric supplements have become a booming “natural” health product, promoted for everything from inflammation and joint pain to general disease ...

A bipartisan group of US lawmakers is calling on the Trump administration to restore US funding for Gavi, the Vaccine ...

[W]hen I learned that Lord Matt Ridley had been invited to speak at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) about ...

Tens of millions of people around the world are now taking drugs like Ozempic — a kind of real-time experiment ...

Human evolution, particularly of the brain, ended a long time ago—at least that is what many educated people, wary of ...

Like high-tech fortune-telling, the screening estimates the chances that embryos will produce children at risk for thousands of illnesses, from ...

In 2025, the detoxification industry worldwide was valued at over $71 billion, and some estimates have that number approaching $120 ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. is sticking his fingers into many pies. One of these contains psychedelics that are ...

The American Academy of Dermatology (AAD) released results from its annual Practice Safe Sun Survey, revealing many Americans still engage ...

It may be possible to make a convincing argument that serious heritable diseases linked to a single gene should be ...

Supplements have become a central part of wellness culture, touted by everyone from influencers who “stack” them to celebrities whose ...

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted unsupported warnings last fall about acetaminophen use ...

Newborns routinely receive the Vitamin K shot immediately after birth to prevent vitamin K deficiency bleeding (VKDB), a rare but ...

A recent study in JAMA Network Open has found that between January and March 2025, America's Poison Centers reported a ...

At this year’s American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) meeting in Chicago, more than 40 studies, abstracts, oral presentations and ...

Three scientific papers that raised questions about vaccine safety and were used by the Trump administration to justify controversial changes to ...

Politics has infiltrated every facet of modern life, including medicine. And some Americans seem increasingly inclined to make important health ...

When major new climate change scenarios are released, there’s always strong interest. These scenarios lay out what our future climate ...

In 1996, Guinea-Bissau seemed like an ideal research post for budding pediatrician Lone Graff Stensballe. Her supervisor, a fellow Dane ...

A recent US Department of the Treasury announcement that organizations claiming tax exempt status (NGOs, foundations, universities and some media groups) will ...

Nicotine-based vapes, or e-cigarettes, are likely to cause cancers of the lung and oral cavity, according to a new study ...

Supplement-induced liver injury is emerging as a growing global health concern as the wellness industry expands and regulation struggles to keep up, ...

Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs were initially understood as a metabolism breakthrough: medicines that act like hormones to control hunger, ...

The United Kingdom just adopted a tobacco-free generation law. Retailers can still sell tobacco to existing customers, but they will never ...