Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: Win for politicized junk science—Vaccine crisis escalates as RFK, Jr.’s hand-picked cronies gut life-saving hepatitis B shot recommendation
Recent weeks have brought good news about vaccines, with studies indicating that flu vaccination reduces heart disease, shingles vaccines can prevent ...
Viewpoint: Life inside the anti-vaccine ecosystem is even scarier than you can imagine
Peter Hildebrand choked back tears as he told the crowd about his daughter, Daisy. She was 8 years old when ...
‘We will witness a radically redrawn coast line’: Sea levels poised to run 15 feet or more over the rest of this century
In May 2014, NASA announced at a press conference that a portion of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet appeared to have reached ...
Trump’s erratic attacks on foreigners and gutting of basic research spurs many scientists to look to other countries as more suitable destinations for relocation
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warned last year that the U.S. lacks a “whole-of-government talent strategy” for science, technology, ...
Viewpoint: Who’s Who of litigation-financed junk scientists publish screed in European pay-for-play journal designed to target safe chemicals and their manufacturers for billion-dollar tort actions
Springer Nature published on November 4, 2025, in Environmental Sciences Europe, "Scientists' warning: we must change paradigm for a revolution in toxicology and ...
Roundup litigation reprieve? U.S. government backs Bayer’s claim that its glyphosate is safe-as-used finding preempts random, conflicting state-by-state ‘failure-to-warn’ claims
U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed a brief on Monday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to review Monsanto’s federal ...
Battle over yttrium: China’s rare earth metal advantages will only get worse
The alarm hasn't yet reached the general public, but tension is beginning to build in the corridors of the aerospace industry, ...
‘Miracle’ GLP-1 weight loss drugs could complicate some pregnancies
The more we learn about GLP-1 agonists, the more miraculous they seem to be. What can’t they do?! you might ...
Viewpoint: ‘Gold standard science’ farce: RFK Jr.’s pledge dangerously mocks U.S. healthcare and endangers medicine globally
The message is hammered over and over, in news conferences, hearings and executive orders: President Donald Trump and his health ...
Viewpoint: Small-scale organic farming’s ‘costly indulgence’—Unlike genetically engineered crops, sustainability myths cannot reduce chemical use and increase yields on less land
The modern food debate is full of comfortable myths. The most persistent is that “organic” is better for you, and ...
Protecting pigs and loving bacon made from them—Here’s how we can get the best of both worlds
Cultivated pork is the newest entrant in the effort to rethink meat. For years, plant-based offerings have been mimicking burgers, ...
Global food security in a fast changing climate
The availability, quality, and affordability of food depend on a stable climate and stable socioeconomic factors that affect supply and ...
We are on the verge of engineering embryos immune from hereditary diseases—and a couple has already volunteered to provide their fertilized egg for a test run
Herasight, which formally launched this summer with backing from influential Silicon Valley venture-capital firm Draper Associates, is charging $50,000 for ...
Viewpoint: The U.S. is now banning some immigrants with health disabilities. Liberal critics call it disgraceful eugenics
Secretary of State Marco Rubio instructed visa officers to consider obesity and other chronic health conditions, such as heart disease, cancer and ...
While AI revolutionizes the world, the human brain rots
The most high-profile study this year about A.I.’s effects on the brain came out of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
Europe has voted to ban meaty names like ‘steak’ and ‘burger’ for plant-based ‘beef’. Will the UK be next?
After the failure of several similar bans, efforts to stop meat alternatives using ‘meaty’ names are closer than ever to ...
Viewpoint: South Korea’s outdated crop gene editing regulations stifles agricultural production
At a policy seminar where Korea’s science community, agriculture sector and government gathered to discuss regulatory reforms for gene editing ...
Rod Kissmee claims ‘‘I have very strong sperm!’: Welcome to the wild west world of social media sperm selling
A man going by the name “Rod Kissme” claims to have “very strong sperm”. It may seem like an eccentric ...
Next phase in the weight loss revolution
For all the societal changes ushered in by GLP-1 drugs, their lofty price tags limit who can afford them. Many patients stop ...
Citing no evidence, RFK, Jr.’s newly-appointed FDA vaccine advisor spreads false information about risks of immunizations, setting the stage for lax policies and a surge in preventable diseases
The Food and Drug Administration will upend its approach to immunizations for respiratory illnesses, including flu vaccines, according to an ...
‘Climate-friendly,’ net-zero beef: Possible or just PR?
Last year, the New York attorney general’s office and the Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit organization, filed lawsuits against JBS ...
Viewpoint: New Zealand rebuffs science-rejectionist attack on the safe use of glyphosate weedkiller
I agree with the recent decision by the New Zealand Food Safety Authority concerning glyphosate. It states that glyphosate can ...
Is the mind distinct from the brain, or are we nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons?
COSM 2025 included a debate between neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and well-known skeptic Michael Shermer on the question of “Are Human ...
The Hungarian parliament has passed a law banning cell-cultivated meat
Hungary raised concerns about cell-based meat when it held the European Council Presidency last year, arguing meat and dairy consumption ...
Viewpoint: ‘Organoid intelligence’?—Ethical questions arise in using organoid human brain nuggets to study disease
As months turned to years, Dr. Arlotta’s team set a record for the oldest documented brain organoids. “We never thought ...
How the pro-life movement undermined Trump’s free IVF campaign promise
Social and religious conservatives spent more than a year lobbying first the Trump campaign and then the administration against mandating ...
Surprising scientists five years after the pandemic, coronavirus has not disappeared but continues to mutate and spread
"We thought SARS-CoV-2 would follow the same pattern as influenza, with a clear winter peak. But the virus has been ...
