Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
As China’s science investment soars, U.S. cuts spending dramatically
The Chinese government is ramping up its support for science, announcing plans to boost two key budgets at the country’s ...
Palantir: The company in the middle of the first AI war
Generative AI has helped fuel Palantir’s rise, supercharging the hands-on support the company provides to its customers. Early in its ...
Under pressure from the Trump administration, medical schools are dropping health inequity education
The leading medical school accreditation body in the U.S. has removed language from its standards that had required schools it ...
Viewpoint: Horror story—what happens if RFK, Jr. prevails and most people stop vaccinating?
Before vaccines, death and disability stalked children. Then shots turned once-common infections into something doctors only read about in textbooks ...
Viewpoint — Dirty Dozen produce ranking flop: Environmental Working Group is at it again with its scientifically ignorant rankings
Spring has sprung. And along with the change of season comes the annual release of Environmental Working Group’s “Shopper’s Guide to ...
Circular research: Google’s chatbot programmed to steer users to Google, not the best sources
Google seems to have a Google addiction. If you click on a hyperlink in Google’s chatbot-style search tool, AI Mode, you are likely to ...
Viewpoint: Cheddar cheese from unpasteurized milk? Cheese linked to e coli outbreak but Raw Farm and organic grocery stores reject recalls
Pasteurization exists for a reason: It is a time-tested way to make sure that dairy products don’t contain bacteria that ...
Viewpoint: The ‘link to cancer’ myth—Activist and trial lawyers misrepresent the potential danger of glyphosate and other herbicides
President Trump recently signed an Executive Order invoking the Defense Production Act to ensure increased domestic supplies of elemental phosphorus ...
Viewpoint: Has the Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. MAHA and anti-vaccine agenda hit a science and political wall?
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s crusade to scale back Americans’ reliance on vaccines has collided with political and legal ...
Turnaround: AI can be an effective tool to challenge sustainability misinformation
Public misinformation about wind farms threatens the global transition to net-zero and a more environmentally sustainable future. This study examines ...
Skipping the shingles vaccine can be deadly: Infection may also speed biological aging
In recent years, increasing numbers of studies have shown that the shingles vaccine appears to be capable of protecting the ...
Trump’s first-term surgeon general joins effort to block current nominee, Casey Means
At the height of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams stood with President Donald Trump at the White ...
Plastic Detox documentary claims the microplastic in your brain can make a spoon. The latest science says that’s ridiculous
Last year, we wrote about how a decimal-point error and selective framing turned black plastic spatulas into a public-health scare ...
How AI is supercharging Russia’s social media disinformation campaigns
"What we're seeing is not just a spike in deepfakes but a shift in how influence is produced," said Chris ...
Viewpoint: Radical leftist makes the case for blocking nuclear energy
It’s been 15 years since Fukushima’s reactors experienced those meltdowns and we still don’t fully understand their long-term repercussions. Nuclear ...
Nuclear energy renaissance? Hangover from decades of misinformation and stagnation in the West over nuclear while China powers forward
Nuclear power is winning support from tech companies, utilities and governments seeking carbon-free, round-the-clock energy to fuel an artificial intelligence ...
Vitamin D alert: Cod liver oil contains environmental toxins. Is it safe to eat?
Cod liver oil comes from fish liver and therefore contains environmental toxins. Is cod liver oil or capsules with fish ...
Key Republicans are abandoning Casey Means’ floundering surgeon general nomination
The nascent Make America Healthy Again movement got one of its biggest wins last spring: Casey Means was selected to be the ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s war on the CDC may be too extreme even for Trump
... Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said something that no other prominent health leader in the Trump administration has. “I ...
Stomach or digestion problems? Wellness “experts” on social media are promoting these quack cures
Social media is usually rife with misinformation about how to boost health, and various tricks to your improve your digestion ...
Trump administration resorts to censorship to counter what it claims is rampant censorship by European governments
In early 2025, aides to Vice President JD Vance ordered a small office at the State Department to document how ...
Protection, Kansas was the first U.S. town to be fully vaccinated in 1957. Now the state is a hotbed of RFK, Jr.’s vaccine rejectionism movement
Kansas was once home to the first town in the entire country to be fully vaccinated against polio. In 1957, ...
How fake AI satellite imagery is impacting Iran war coverage
An unprecedented wave of AI-generated misinformation about the US-Israel war with Iran is being monetised by online creators with growing ...
RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel member quits in anger after judge says he’s not qualified
Dr. Robert Malone, vice chair of the federal committee that recommends vaccines to Americans, angrily resigned his position on Tuesday ...
Viewpoint: Off-shore wind advocates face uphill battle challenging Trump’s war on sustainable energy
... Trump has declared that the US will see “no new windmills,” the type of comment that many in the ...
How to “vaccinate” against mis- and disinformation
As part of BBC Media Action’s broader effort to understand what works in tackling information disorder, we’re testing proactive responses to ...
As teen suicides pile up, AI companies squirm to avert accountability
It was Amaurie’s younger sister who discovered the body. She was also the one who was looking through her brother’s ...
