Daily Human Digest
Every day, the staff of the Genetic Literacy Project scours the Web for stories on a range of human genetics issues, including gene editing, regulations and bioethics, gene therapy, epigenetics, personal genomics, evolution, ancestry and artificial intelligence. We publish excerpts of those stories and encourage our readers to visit the original publications for the complete stories.
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 ...
What happens when a pro-life congresswoman needs an abortion?
Tara Palmeri sits down with Republican Congresswoman Kat Cammack of Florida for a wide-ranging and unusually candid conversation. ... In ...
Kennedy blocks preventive health care panel that reviews treatments for HIV, diabetes, and cancer from meeting — for fourth time
For the fourth time, the Trump administration has prevented an important public health panel from meeting as planned. The panel, ...
Viewpoint: Oxygen chambers? Pulsed electromagnetic field therapy? The only thing biohacking improves is the bottom line of preventative medicine hucksters
... [A]longside valuable services such as physiotherapy, dietitian support and exercise programs, increasingly trendy interventions pop up: IV vitamin infusions, ...
700,000-person study reaffirms that getting a flu and Covid shot on the same day is safe
Getting the flu vaccine and COVID shot on the same day doesn't increase the risk of adverse reactions, according to ...
AI is making even its founders uneasy: ‘We find evidence of introspection, joy, satisfaction, fear, grief and unease.’
Anthropic, Google and Meta have over the past year hired computer scientists, neuroscientists and philosophers to study concepts like the ...
Technical milestone or designer baby obsession: Latest gene-editing advance reignites a familiar ethical debate
Scientists at Columbia University have used a precise gene-editing tool, base editing, to make changes in three disease-linked genes in ...
Misnamed ‘medical freedom’ movement stalls in Florida as Republicans fail to advance legislation ending school vaccine mandates
Every state, along with Washington, D.C., requires children to obtain certain vaccinations before they can attend school or childcare. These ...
Is Ebola a hoax created by fake humanitarians to steal African land and resources? Disinformation sweeps through the Congo.
As Ebola virus disease sweeps through the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the surrounding region, healthcare workers aren’t ...
Viewpoint: Weaponizing misinformation
There are moments in global debates when a concept becomes so technical, institutional, and wrapped in the language of risk ...
‘Trust, access, and equity’: After billions of doses worldwide, yet another review of COVID vaccine confirms its safety and effectiveness
A comprehensive review of the billions of COVID-19 vaccine doses made with mRNA technology shows that these vaccines are safe ...
Independent news review site launches free credibility and fact-vetted aggregation chatbot
NewsGuard AI is the only chatbot specializing in providing reliable responses to prompts about topics in the news. The large ...
PEW study: The sick state of American health information
Most Americans say it’s important to be healthy, but fewer think they are doing a good job at managing their ...
From infrared sauna blankets to collagen gummies, here’s the top 10 social-media-promoted wellness shams
The wellness industry has become a multi-billion-dollar business built around one simple promise: feeling better. Better sleep. Better skin. Better ...
Explaining the Supreme Court ruling empowering states to ban transgender female athletes from competing in women’s sports
[The Supreme Court] issued a narrow decision focused specifically on the unique context of sports," ACLU senior counsel Joshua Block ...
Viewpoint—Junk science: How predatory mass tort lawyers twist facts, scare the public about phantom chemical risks, and cash in on billion-dollar settlements
Too many mass tort litigations are being resolved based on so-called “expert” testimony that is, in reality, less than reliable ...
Celebrities flock to Mexico for for expensive anti-aging stem cell injections despite no evidence that it works
Celebrities are jetting out of the country in search of a pricey anti-aging craze that many claim is helping them ...
Miracle cure or medical mirage? As scientists strip away the hype over psychedelic therapy, evidence of the benefits fades.
Over the last decade, we’ve seen scientific interest in these drugs explode. But most clinical trials of psychedelics have been small ...
Blocked by Kennedy’s CDC, validated by peer-reviewed scientists: Suppressed COVID vaccine study published in JAMA finds 50% risk cut
A covid vaccine study that the CDC’s chief halted this spring over methodological concerns was published [on June 23, 2026] ...
Viewpoint: From magnetizing your head to taking useless supplements, the wellness craze has morphed into an obsession of the affluent
The health world is awash with what is sometimes referred to, a bit too politely in my opinion, as “woo”; ...
From printers to pigs: The precarious future of organ transplants
At any given time, the US transplant waiting list is about 100,000 people long. Even with a record 41,356 transplants ...
Viewpoint: The facts behind the grifter-promoting wellness and anti-aging peptide craze: Don’t waste your money
The wellness craze of the moment. Peptides themselves are just short chains of amino acids, the same building blocks that ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s vaccine subterfuge campaign now flies below the media radar
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention halted the publication of a study showing that last year’s covid-19 ...
Europe’s heat wave fueled recycled climate-denial narratives and harassment of climate scientists
A May heatwave across Europe has shattered temperature records and sparked a wave of familiar claims online that attempt to ...
How the dubious, Trump-backed, addictive drug kratom could enrich cabinet secretary Markwayne Mullin
Sold in gas stations across America, kratom has been linked to liver toxicity, seizures and thousands of deaths. Powerful figures ...
Is cellular reprogramming junk science? Nearly 20 patients are getting eye injections in the first FDA-cleared cellular trial
It's a pivotal moment for longevity science, the first opportunity for researchers to prove that epigenetic reprogramming — a technique ...
