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.
Slowdown AI development? China acknowledges serious risks but sees warnings as U.S. ploy to control the technology
For years, Silicon Valley's most powerful voices insisted the US was locked in an unwinnable AI arms race with China ...
RFK Jr.’s latest crank obsession: Protecting Americans from perfectly safe electromagnetic radiation
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken a first formal step toward possible new rules—or at ...
Should doctors engage in social media to counter misinformation?
Doctors shouldn't retreat from social media just because their words carry extra weight there — they should use that weight ...
‘Symptom borrowing’: Young people are copying health problems they see on TikTok
Young people are increasingly copying health symptoms they see in TikTok videos, a phenomenon one mental health app founder has ...
White House drafting executive order to control what OMB Director Vought claims are “woke” NIH science grants
The White House is drafting an executive order that would create an external committee with power to veto National Institutes ...
What’s Trump’s ‘AI Force’? Administration rushes to announce ill-defined watchdog agency and czar amid criticism of its resistance to curb AI acceleration
Donald Trump says he's creating an "AI Force" and will soon name an AI "czar," though as the Guardian reports, ...
Vitamin D, omega-3 fish oil and glucosamine supplements could cause brain damage
Vitamin D, omega-3 fish oil and glucosamine — three of the most popular supplements among older Americans — may do ...
Child-monitoring apps: When the cure is worse than the harm—and how the technology could be tweaked
Millions of American parents have turned to apps like Bark that scan their kids' texts, photos and chats for signs ...
Viewpoint: Why are the less intelligent more likely to be conservative—and smarter people more socially liberal?
Smarter people tend to be more socially liberal — less racist, less homophobic, less nationalistic, more supportive of free speech ...
The heated debate over trans athletes in the WNBA
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Nancy Hogshead-Makar has created a petition demanding that the WNBA spell out that its players must ...
Viewpoint: Women, depression and empathy: Explaining the gender gap in views about child-murderer Lindsay Clancy
Massachusetts mother Lindsay Clancy's trial — which ended in a deadlocked jury over the deaths of her three children while ...
Outing students: California court says schools need not notify parents of their child’s gender identity—unless they ask
California schools don't have to tell parents when a student comes out as transgender — but if a parent asks, ...
Doomsday cult? Why we should be suspicious of end-of-the-world claims
Marc Andreessen is done listening to AI's doomsayers, and he wants everyone else to stop too. The venture capitalist behind ...
RFK Jr. spent two years distancing himself from Children’s Health Defense. Now he’s keynoting its anti-vaccine DC conference.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to headline a Washington, D.C. conference hosted by Children's Health Defense (CHD), the anti-vaccine ...
Autonomous decisions: AI’s Holy Grail. What is it?
AI companies aren't pouring billions into the world's biggest data centers just so people can ask chatbots for recipes — ...
Trump EPA rolls back power-plant climate rules—and moves to block future carbon limits
The Trump administration's Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to repeal the rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from coal- and ...
How the reckless AI race among Anthropic, OpenAI and China spawned today’s safety crisis
The AI industry's safety talk is colliding with its own commercial stakes, as The Wall Street Journal reports in a look at ...
AI is being used in dangerous bioscience experiments
Anthropic disrupted five attempts to misuse its Claude models for possible bioweapons development between December and August, including two cases ...
Anthropic claims to thwart AI-based cyberattacks, surveillance, and biological weapons research
In its third disclosure since March 2025, the AI company detailed threat activity it identified between December 2025 and August ...
Viewpoint: 6 Atlantic Council expert opinions on the U.S., China and the AI safety crisis
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei called on the AI industry to "slow the pace" of frontier development amid mounting safety concerns ...
Hands-off: Trump rejects calls by AI leaders to increase regulation and slow development, citing Chinese competition
President Donald Trump on September 13, 2026, brushed off calls from three top AI leaders — Anthropic's Dario Amodei, OpenAI's ...
Here’s why separating MMR vaccines is a bad idea
Singapore has not been spared from the global resurgence of measles. As at end-July, Singapore had recorded 40 measles cases ...
‘Jet fuel didn’t melt the steel’: 9/11 conspiracy theories debunked
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, conspiracy theories about the World Trade Center's collapse still circulate — but as ...
SCOTUS refuses to back Catholic mother’s appeal for a childhood vaccine religious exemption
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to intervene for a Catholic mother seeking a religious exemption from New York's school ...
Did COVID vaccines kill 2,500 service members? RFK Jr. hires an investigator who compares vaccine promoters to Nazi doctors
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has hired Lt. Col. Theresa Long, an Army doctor with no vaccine or virology ...
Facing ridicule, Hegseth rescinds Pentagon’s new testosterone mandates
The Pentagon abruptly yanked its new testosterone-screening rules just a day after posting them, as ABC News' Luis Martinez reports. Defense ...
Chemophobia trap: How the ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy makes ‘clean’ and organic products seem safer—even when they’re not
Fear of “chemicals” is spreading well beyond the wellness aisle — and now it’s driving political messaging as much as ...
