Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Growing animal muscle and fat cells inside rice grains and calling it beef: One of numerous genetically engineered products shaking up our ecosystem
Perhaps the most audacious biotechnology breakthrough of recent years is cultured beef rice, a hybrid food that literally grows animal ...
Viewpoint: Trump appoints climate change hoax promoter to head influential government policy project
The Trump administration has appointed a critic of mainstream climate science to oversee the federal government’s flagship report on how ...
Viewpoint: With trust in doctors and mainstream medicine collapsing, medical professionals need a new communications strategy
Institutional trust has been in decline since the late 1950s, Stephanie Baker, PhD, professor of sociology at City St George’s, ...
Wellness grifters overwhelm information channels in the developing world, and the problem is escalating
A scroll through TikTok, Instagram or Facebook is enough to find supplements claiming to do almost everything. Lose weight. Reverse ...
Pete Hegseth’s bizarre Viagra commercial as Trump administration endorses ‘hormone replacement therapy’
Pete Hegseth announced [on July 15, 2026] that the Department of Defense will offer testosterone deficiency screening for soldiers 30 and ...
US court revives 550 lawsuits claiming Tylenol causes autism and ADHD. What does this ruling mean for science and the law?
A federal appeals court today revived more than 500 lawsuits alleging that Tylenol maker Kenvue failed to warn consumers that ...
Science under siege: As federal funding dries up, top research universities are turning out fewer PhDs
The number of students admitted to Ph.D. programs this fall dropped 15 percent from [2025], according to data from over ...
Farmers and agri-food companies are abandoning social media even as disinformation grows
Many people in the agricultural sector have dropped off social media, says a recent survey by researchers at the University ...
Across Eastern Europe, science disinformation has spread far beyond COVID and vaccine denialism. Here’s the grim list.
Medical misinformation in Poland has become in 2025 a much larger ecosystem than the old anti-vaccination narratives. A NASK report, ...
Viewpoint: Supplements to clean your liver? Not a good idea.
As cases of liver disease and public awareness of the organ's role in overall health have risen, so have sales ...
Which among war, weather and cyber attacks is the biggest world threat? None of the above. It’s misinformation, and here’s why.
The UN and the World Economic Forum have identified misinformation and disinformation as top global risks—ranking them as higher short-term ...
Viewpoint: A plastic surgeon on why banning gender-transition surgery without further research is wrong and harmful
In [February, 2026], [The American Society of Plastic Surgeons] ASPS, a society for which I previously served on the Board ...
Cancer health facts are particularly susceptible to online misinformation
For someone who has just received a cancer diagnosis, the internet can become both a source of comfort and confusion ...
Snake-oil cures throughout history
From drinking excessive quantities of salt water during the Ebola outbreak to consuming horse urine and cow dung during the ...
Using AI for health questions? Here are 4 tips for the most accurate answers.
If you want to start, or continue using, a chatbot for your health questions, take these expert-recommended steps as you ...
Viewpoint: In abortion-restricting Florida, misinformation abounds when Republican congresswoman faces an ectopic pregnancy
In a recent interview with Tara Palmeri, Rep. Kat Cammack, R-Fla., was unexpectedly asked about the life-threatening ectopic pregnancy she experienced ...
Viewpoint: Will new breeding techniques help make European agriculture more competitive?
"Breeding companies have been eagerly awaiting this for a long time," begins Sjaak van der Ploeg, Breeding & Strategy Lead ...
AI being mobilized to target misinformation about vaccines–on AI
Artificial intelligence doesn’t have a great reputation for veracity. Social media abounds with AI-generated concoctions, from cute images of fake ...
Belief in unproven dietary regimes, vitamins, and crank therapies is putting patients’ health in danger and increasing the risk of getting cancer
Social media misinformation about the use of dietary supplements such as turmeric, St John’s wort and magnesium is now so ...
X rolls out direct messages to users who interact with misinformation
X is no longer hoping you’ll stumble across a fact-check on your own. The platform’s Community Notes system now actively ...
Viewpoint: 21 worthless wellness trends inspired by RFK, Jr.’s ill-informed MAHA followers that can harm or even kill you.
Somewhere along the way, "wellness" went from drinking water and getting enough sleep to taking medical advice from a "looksmaxxing ...
Deeply-flawed ivermectin study revives scientifically unsupported miracle cancer drug myth
Though researchers have been studying the animal deworming drug ivermectin for decades, there is no evidence that it's a safe ...
Do cold plunges and contrast therapy work?
Images of people jumping from icy plunge baths after a period in saunas or hot tubs are heating up social ...
2,300 endangered species: Controversial de-extinction company Colossal Biosciences joins U.S. effort to preserve their DNA
The Trump administration and a company that is promising to bring long-gone animals back from extinction announced a partnership on ...
Kennedy-founded Children’s Health Defense doubles down on support for Idaho mother charged by a grand jury with murdering her twins last year after claiming vaccines killed them
An Idaho mother who said her 18-month-old twins died last year after receiving three vaccines has been charged with murder ...
Signal or noise? Study links GLP-1 drugs to slowing the aging process
A theory that GLP-1 medications like Ozempic or Zepbound might help people live longer has been bandied about by biohackers ...
Viewpoint: In this age of disinformation, how can scientists and farmers promote food literacy
...[W]e need to ask for more than feel-good, farm narratives that have limited transparency. While we want to support local ...
