Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Kennedy claims the 1960s were a golden era of health, with far less disease. What’s the reality?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, often says that when his uncle was president in the early 1960s, Americans ...
When profit-driven AI algorithms make medical decisions, vulnerable populations may suffer disproportionately
Automation promises speed, consistency and financial efficiency, but when it comes to healthcare, the increasing role of AI in such ...
Knowing from where crops originated and are grown is crucial to a sustainable food future
Over a third of the world’s food is grown by small-scale farmers who are unpaid and undervalued. Knowing where food ...
‘We’re talking about enough food for hundreds of millions of people’: Why are crops suddenly failing in different parts of the world?
In fields across the globe, crops that once thrived under predictable seasons are now struggling to survive. Hotter days and ...
How biotech shapes climate-smart agriculture in Asia and Australasia
“We’re in a race against time.” This is the alarming call of Silvia Restrepo, President of the Boyce Thompson Institute ...
Looming disease crisis? With vaccination rates falling, measles and polio rates could soar
Measles, rubella, polio and diphtheria—once ubiquitous, devastating and deeply feared—have been virtually eliminated from the U.S. for decades. Entire generations have ...
Longevity drug haven: Montana is now the U.S. epicenter for the use of unapproved drugs and experimental therapies
A bill that allows medical clinics to sell unproven treatments has been passed in Montana...doctors can apply for a license ...
Heartbreaking: Yes, you can die from a broken heart—especially men
A patient comes crashing into the emergency room with severe chest pain.... So the patient is rushed to the cath ...
Viewpoint: What the MAHA report gets wrong about crop chemicals
Crop organizations say President Donald Trump’s administration is raising baseless questions about pesticide safety in the first report from the ...
There is no agreed upon definition of regenerative agriculture. Canadian farmers want to change that
With producer and policy interest in regenerative agriculture growing across Canada, policymakers and industry leaders are debating how to standardize ...
AI and machine learning could accelerate and mainstream the culture meat revolution
Cultured meat (CM), known by many names including “cell-based” or “cultivated” meat, is an emerging technology that uses tissue engineering ...
Why RFK, Jr.’s placebo testing requirement for vaccine approval will cost lives
The health and human services secretary claimed that no vaccines other than the coronavirus shots had been tested against a ...
‘White genocide’: Ask Elon Musk’s Grok AI bot about sports or Medicare and it changes the subject to ‘oppressed’ South African whites
A chatbot developed by Elon Musk’s multibillion-dollar artificial intelligence startup xAI appeared to be suffering from a glitch [on May ...
‘Arsenal in the culture war’: The evangelical Australian Christian behind the Noah’s Ark creation museum
[Australian Ken] Ham is founder and CEO of Answers in Genesis [AIG], which opened the Ark Encounter in 2016. The ...
New Zealand edges closer toward GMO deregulation, rise of glyphosate limits spurring concerns among activists
The Government says there is no link between a proposal for a hundredfold increase in the allowable residue of the ...
More than 300 people in the U.S. are still dying every week from COVID
More than five years after the first cases of COVID-19 were detected in the United States, hundreds of people are ...
Viewpoint: Ethical questions about embryo screening and eugenics
Orchid and other start-ups like it take embryos produced by IVF and subject those embryos to polygenic screening. This process ...
Food as Medicine: Groundbreaking Oklahoma law encourages integration of nutrition into healthcare
With the recent passage of Oklahoma Senate Bill 806, also known as the Food is Medicine Act, the state is ...
Plant biotechnology is an indispensable tool for enhancing crop resilience to droughts and floods
As climate change intensifies extreme weather events, the agriculture sector is faced with the arduous task of finding ways to ...
Will RFK, Jr. try to ban glyphosate weedkiller?
After targeting dyes and other chemicals allowed for use in food, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is zeroing ...
AI and terrorism: How bioterrorists could easily fake an attack
While I am deeply concerned about the long-term existential threat of AI and synthetic biology to create new or modified ...
India approves its first gene edited crop—rice that uses less water, reduces carbon emissions and increases yields
India has made a historic leap in Sustainable Farming by unveiling the world’s first Genome-Edited Rice varieties. “Pusa DST Rice ...
Leonardo da Vinci’s DNA lives on in at least six living people
For more than five centuries, Leonardo Da Vinci has been celebrated as a visionary artist, scientist, and inventor, known for ...
Viewpoint: Is the cultivated meat movement a way to reduce ‘nonhuman suffering’ or is it animal exploitation greenwashing
There’s a criticism which I see with some frequency in the animal-rights movement which argues those who view cultivated meat ...
Viewpoint: Following no medical guidance, RFK, Jr. recklessly removes COVID vaccine recommendation for children and pregnant women
Yesterday, in a move that stunned the public health community, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced via Twitter/X that COVID-19 ...
‘They’re all corrupt’: In latest conspiracy claim, RFK, Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading science journals
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said [May 27] that he may bar government scientists from publishing ...
Why has there been a surge in adult autism diagnoses?
More U.S. adults than ever before have autism, and many are being diagnosed not as children, but in later years ...
