Science Controversies
Republicans threaten to challenge the Biden administration’s January 4 private sector COVID vaccine mandate
Employers in the private sector will have two months to ensure their workers are fully vaccinated or tested weekly under ...
Workers who refuse COVID vaccines can be required to pay for tests under proposed Biden Administration rules
The Biden administration’s highly anticipated vaccine mandate rule for private-sector employers will allow businesses to force workers who refuse to ...
Public health has taken a huge credibility hit during the COVID pandemic. Here’s what led to this crisis
[P]ublic health has succeeded marvelously by some measures, lengthening life spans and bringing many diseases to heel. But when the ...
Breast cancer vaccine clinical trials begin
Cleveland Clinic researchers have opened a clinical trial for a vaccine that could prevent an aggressive form of breast cancer ...
Here’s what parents need to know about the COVID vaccine approved for children age 5-11
[November 2,] the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention gave the final OK for youngsters age 5 to 11 to ...
Race for biosupremacy? China aggressively expanding efforts in artificial intelligence, quantum computing, semiconductors and genetic data collection
Chinese firms are collecting genetic data from around the world, part of an effort by the Chinese government and companies ...
How Israel got a jump on the rest of the world in COVID booster rollouts
Throughout the global effort against Covid-19, Israel’s public health experts have been consistently ahead of their counterparts elsewhere in the ...
Personal freedom vs vaccine mandates: Protests over Biden Administration COVID shot mandates surge
Across the nation, employers, government officials, health care workers and other Americans are continuing to push back against COVID-19 vaccine ...
‘Viral evolution is a long game.’ Here’s where scientists think COVID might be headed
Even for a virus, evolution is a long game, and our relationship with SARS-CoV-2 is still in its infancy. We ...
Should all phthalates be banned? Misrepresented study highlights problems with reporting on complex, evolving science
I’ve written in the past about the tendency of some researchers to compensate for weak study design or small sample ...
Inexpensive SSRI antidepressant fluvoxamine could reduce severe COVID
A cheap, generically available anti-depressant may reduce the risk of severe Covid-19 disease by close to a third in people ...
Viewpoint: ‘No thinking, just copying and pasting’: European Commission’s GM public comment period spammed by identical anti-biotech comments
Starting a few weeks ago the European Commission began a public feedback period on the regulation of gene edited crops ...
After conquering US meatless market with GMO plant-based meat line, Impossible Burger sets sights on Britain
The American maker of a “bleeding” meat-free burger is planning to launch in Britain after applying for regulatory approval to ...
Why aren’t COVID vaccine boosters being tweaked to curtail Delta and other dangerous variants?
More COVID-19 booster shots may be on the way — but when it’s your turn, you’ll get an extra dose ...
Poisonings from unproven COVID treatment ivermectin surge around the country
Poisonings from taking ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that some people have used in an attempt to treat or prevent Covid-19, ...
Bipartisan US House members voice support for streamlining agricultural biotechnology regulations
Streamlined regulations, enforcement of trade agreements, and increased funding for university research are all needed to advance innovation in biotechnology, ...
Demanding access to chemical fertilizers, Sri Lankan farmers go on hunger strike
Farmers belonging to 41 farmers’ organisations in the Elahera area in Polonnaruwa commenced a continuous hunger strike [October 24], demanding ...
AY.4.2: What do we know so far about the new Delta variant mutation?
A newly-discovered mutation of the delta variant is being investigated in the U.K. amid worries that it could make the ...
First pig-grown kidney transplant successfully trialed in humans
Researchers have long sought to grow organs in pigs that are suitable for transplantation into humans. Technologies like cloning and ...
Could a new generation of weight-loss drugs make a dent in the obesity epidemic?
In a field plagued by drugs with dangerous side effects and product recalls, doctors have been hesitant to prescribe these ...
Mexico’s farm sector is already lagging as GM crop ban looms
Banning genetically modified crops and glyphosate will harm 40 percent of Mexico’s gross domestic product (GDP), warned economist Fernando Cruz ...
Minimal role fetal cells play in COVID vaccine development could provide opening for Supreme Court rule on religious exemptions
A group of unvaccinated Maine health care workers are asking the Supreme Court to block a state rule that mandates ...
China’s latest Twitter disinformation claim: COVID caused by Maine lobsters imported to Wuhan
Zha Liyou, the Chinese consul general in Kolkata, India, tweeted an unfounded claim that Covid-19 could have been imported to ...
Viewpoint: Green lobby in full swing as activist NGOs flood European Commission with pre-fabricated, anti-biotechnology propaganda
Before legislative procedures, the EU regularly asks for the opinions of its citizens and stakeholders. In principle, anyone can participate ...
Superbugs: The next (inevitable) public health crisis could kill as many as 10 million people around the world
Covid-19 has demonstrated the catastrophic result of a virus catching the world unprepared. But over human history, bacteria have been ...
Is ‘serious genetic condition’ a useful term?
Despite no consensus on the definition of ‘seriousness’, the concept is regularly used in policy and practice contexts to categorize ...
‘Human skulls line his shelves’: 21-year old TikTok star JonesBones stirs ethical debate over selling human remains
Jon Pichaya Ferry, known on TikTok as JonsBones, is a 21-year-old bone salesman. Ferry’s account, where he has garnered nearly ...
