Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s FDA is on a screaming downward path—and why it may never recover
Whether you liked [Marty] Makary or not ..., the purge or whatever this was is not somehow going to miraculously ...
Relying on your doctor or AI miracle cure, death and debilitation? Neurologist makes the wrong choice
... Ben knew that his 75-year-old father had chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a type of white blood cell cancer that is ...
Nurses are the front line in challenging social media health myths
Nurses' morale is being significantly impacted by the need to "constantly" correct misinformation, according to their union. Members of the ...
31 states have passed a confusing collection of regulations for cell-based meat and plant and insect alternative proteins
Over the past several years, the regulation of alternative proteins has received a lot of attention at the state level ...
MAGA’s latest ‘health obsession’? Nicotine patches promoted by ‘Zynfluencers’—including some in the Trump administration
Nicotine pouches have become a phenomenon in the past several years, gaining popularity among social-media influencers (aka, self-styled “Zynfluencers”), gamers and middle-aged ...
Viewpoint: ‘Monsanto’ blues—Planned Netflix movie promises yet another round of anti-glyphosate disinformation
By now, many people have heard about a new propaganda movie … er, “drama film” … coming out about Monsanto, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘sadistic’ solution to autism, depression, and other ills looks a lot like prison camp
... [Robert F. Kennedy] has a long history of talking about people on SSRIs in dehumanizing, often racist language that ...
Colossal Bio grows chicks in 3D-printed artificial eggs. Breakthrough or copycat technology?
The baby chicks were shifting and starting to pip—or trying to hatch. But not from an egg. Instead, these chickens ...
Viewpoint— “A safe space to chat, flirt, and be intimate without sex”: Are new AI companies exploiting vulnerable asexuals?
Kor “got really addicted” to their NSFW role-playing AI chatbot last year. The 35-year-old artist from the Midwest recalls a ...
Vagus nerve wellness grift: How to build a billion dollar business. Are you listening, Kelly Ripa?
“There are billions of web impressions and social media posts on the vagus nerve,” said Dr. Kevin Tracey, a neurosurgeon ...
Hantavirus revives COVID-era conspiracies and distrust in public health
Since the first cases of hantavirus on the MV Hondius cruise ship were reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) ...
Seed oil panic: RFK Jr. and influencers made linoleic acid a dietary villain and heart risk. Evidence points the other way — replacing them with animal fat is.
The seed oil panic has achieved full institutional legitimacy. ... The January 2026 dietary guidelines — which discarded 421 pages of scientific ...
Here come the biohackers’ Enhanced Games—The Olympics for athletes doping up on steroids, hormones and peptides. What’s wrong with that?
This past week, in a city built on risk and reward, billionaire biohacker Christian Angermayer went about his wellness routine ...
Fake Ebola cure promoters already cashing in as disinformation videos flood social media
The WHO’s emergency declaration cited eight confirmed cases, 246 suspected cases, and 80 suspected deaths from the rare Bundibugyo strain, ...
‘Realistic and durable’: EPA proposes loosening restrictions on some PFAS ‘forever chemicals.’
The Trump administration ... moved to partially roll back drinking water protections from toxic “forever chemicals.” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...
Is surrogacy modern-day slavery? What to know about Florida Republican effort to pass severe restrictions.
Attorney General James Uthmeier, inserting himself into what had been a standard surrogacy case, is arguing that surrogacy is unconstitutional. The case ...
‘Implausible’: Top climate scientists reject worst-case scenario—soaring temperatures and fast-rising sea levels
For more than a decade, as scientists tried to evaluate just how much the planet might warm by the end ...
UK gene-editing milestone: Livestock barley that increases ruminant value and reduces methane emissions is first-approved CRISPR crop
The UK has issued the first regulatory approval for a gene-edited crop under its new rules for precision breeding. The ...
Chiropractors may no longer be modern-day snake oil salesmen, but the benefits of their therapy are limited–at best
Roughly 11 percent of American adults saw a chiropractor in 2022, mainly for pain management. Chiropractic care is offered by ...
Meat sits atop the U.S.-RFK, Jr. food pyramid. How healthy is the carnivore diet?
Meat is king, according to the U.S. government. The new dietary guidelines encourage people to consume red meat regularly, and ...
Sharp rise in number of parents refusing newborn vitamin K shots, putting babies at 81-fold higher risk of severe bleeding
In the hours after birth, newborns are typically given a shot of vitamin K, which they are naturally deficient of ...
Viewpoint: Doctors can fight health misinformation — if hospitals let them
Health misinformation is a public health problem. According to KFF, more than half of U.S. adults say they get health ...
Social media’s health advice red flags
Researchers ... looked at the social media profiles of 6,828 health and wellness influencers with at least 100,000 followers. Only ...
Viewpoint: No, sugar doesn’t ‘feed’ cancer — common cancer myths, debunked
From avoiding sugar completely to fearing microwaves and mammograms, cancer is surrounded by myths that continue to create panic and ...
Viewpoint—‘Technology is pulling us apart’: Environmental, political, and economic
It could be the relentless news agenda, but the news has been relentless throughout my 11 years as editor-in-chief of ...
Viewpoint: Indian PM wants farmers to switch to 50% organic. It would take at least 10 years, likely won’t work, and isn’t more sustainable
... Prime Minister Narendra Modi decided it was time to ask Indians to brace themselves for price shocks and other ...
West-originated vaccine disinformation sparks murders of health care workers across Africa
Late last year, rumors spread through the villages of Tshopo, a northeastern Congolese province covered in tropical forests, that a ...
