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.
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 ...
Why the human genome is less a script than a puzzle
It’s now clear that understanding the human genome is no longer a matter of figuring out what each gene does ...
Leading OB-GYN group challenges RFK, Jr. gutting of maternal vaccine schedule
The leading professional organization for obstetricians and gynecologists in the US has launched its first maternal vaccination schedule and diverged ...
No, Bill Gates did not secretly engineer ticks to promote veganism
"WEAPONIZED TICKS ARE HERE -- AND IT'S NO ACCIDENT! Genetically modified ticks are exploding across America, triggering Alpha-Gal Syndrome," claims a May ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s Reflecting Pool algae fiasco points to a bigger culprit: Climate change
In his battle to clean the murky waters of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, President Donald Trump has tried draining, painting, hydrogen ...
Hegseth reversal: As Air Force flu outbreak continues to surge, military reinstitutes mandatory vaccines for recruits
A flu outbreak at the Air Force's basic training hub in San Antonio is worsening, according to two sources familiar ...
Desperate patients of autistic children paying up to $20,000 for bogus stem cell injections recommended by RFK, Jr.
Autistic children as young as 18 months old are being injected with human stem cells derived from umbilical cords in ...
After Mel Gibson’s Joe Rogan comments, grifters promoting ivermectin, without evidence, as a hantavirus preventive
"Hantavirus is a RNA virus, and ivermectin should work against it," claims a May 6, 2026 post on X from Mary Talley ...
AI’s promotion of ‘fake news’ erodes everyday thinking, MIT study reveals
Yet another study shows that the more you let artificial intelligence do the thinking for you, the less capable you ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. ignores oversight of vast HHS programs to focus on his pet obsessions—and gets much of the science wrong
Mr. Kennedy has shown little interest in managing the details of work in his department, according to multiple colleagues. Instead, ...
Trump and climate change skeptics misrepresent updated climate-emissions scenarios to claim projections were bogus
In a May 16 Truth Social post, President Donald Trump cited updated climate change scenarios to misleadingly claim that experts ...
Anti-vaxxers falsely claim chronic disease study of 22 diseases ‘proves’ that vaccinated children are sicker than the unvaccinated
The analysis is based on a 2020 draft study that was never published because an internal review identified "serious flaws ...
‘Plasticity’: Can psilocybin support healthy aging by transforming the brains of older adults?
The study, known as PLASTICITY (Psychedelic Longitudinal Aging Study In Cognitively Healthy Older Adults), is the first psychedelic neuroimaging study specifically ...
Treat measles with cod liver oil and vitamin A? RFK, Jr.’s recommendation has led to a surge in poisonings
Vitamin A became a highly searched topic around the time Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. touted ...
Trump administration pushes to bring AI “doctors” into U.S. healthcare. The promise — and the risks.
Today, chatbots can only legally offer medical guidance with a disclaimer attached: Neither the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, nor ...
Viewpoint: The booming longevity anti-aging skin care hoax
Historically, anti-aging has been rooted in prevention (think sunscreen or retinoids for wrinkles), not instant results. ... Driven by the broader ...
Texas Air Force base flu outbreak soars to over 220 cases, and one soldier has died after Secretary Hegseth scrapped mandatory military flu shots
In a new social media post, a U.S. Congressman is demanding answers about what led to a major flu outbreak ...
Viewpoint: How the Trump administration is thwarting the will of Congress and starving American science
Although research has bipartisan support in the US Congress, and trust in science is above 75% across the country, the ...
