Science Literacy Project Daily Digest
Viewpoint: Britain is increasingly concerned as Trump indiscriminately cuts science programs. Here’s why
Scientific research and innovation advance our economic, social and cultural wellbeing, provide health benefits and are key to a sustainable ...
Viewpoint: Cod liver oil and vitamin A—RFK. Jr.’s dangerous alternative recommendations to a vaccine to prevent and treat measles could cause brain damage
As a measles outbreak in West Texas continues to grow, the response from US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert ...
7 widely-embraced science “facts” that are dead wrong and threaten our health and prosperity
1.) If something wasn’t established in a peer reviewed, double-blind study, it hasn’t been robustly established. ... 2.) Fluoridated drinking ...
Doomsday seed bank vault: How the US government protects our food and farming future
In 1958 the U.S. Department of Agriculture established the first federal seed bank in Fort Collins to preserve valuable seeds for our ...
Reciprocal US-EU food war: Agricultural chemicals in the crosshairs as tariffs begin rolling out
The European Union is looking to halt imports of certain produce grown using pesticides currently banned from use here, the FT ...
Viewpoint: Litigation industry intensifies its lobbying in Iowa to stoke fear about the alleged dangers of glyphosate
I want to refute some dangerous misinformation being propagated around a bill in the Iowa Legislature. There is a concerted ...
Is intelligent life a ‘once in a universe’ likelihood? Recalibrating the possibility of extraterrestrial life
A popular model of evolution concludes that it was incredibly unlikely for humanity to evolve on Earth, and that extraterrestrial ...
Turmoil at RFK, Jrs.’ HHS. Two weeks into the job, top spokesperson resigns claiming the recent appointee is bungling the measles outbreak response
[HHS chief spokesperson Thomas Corry's] sudden departure was prompted by growing disagreement with Kennedy and his principal deputy chief of ...
What would our diet consist of if we restricted our eating to American-produced food
The notion that the country could produce all of its food domestically is nice—even admirable. An America First food system ...
Don’t waste your money on Vitamin C, D, zinc, elderberry and echinacea supplements—they are a $70 billion-a-year lie
[A] new study was published last week in JAMA Network Open and included more than 15,000 participants. It found that ...
Iowa becomes first state to remove explicit civil rights protection fot transgender people
[P]otesters and Democrats tried without success this week to persuade Republican lawmakers to reconsider, reflected how much the discourse over ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why almost all international agricultural biotechnology regulatory structures are a scientific mess, and what reforms are needed
Inappropriate and often politicized regulations in many countries have limited the global benefits of agricultural biotechnology. The Cartagena Protocol on ...
Viewpoint: Anatomy of junk science—Dissecting yet another attempt by activist scientists to ‘link’ vaccines to autism
A newly published study is being widely circulated, purportedly showing a link between vaccines and autism. A closer look at ...
Love, sex and Ozempic: Will GLP-1 drugs give you a lift?
Millions of Americans are now taking Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound—a class of drugs known as GLP-1 receptor agonists—to treat ...
What does it mean to say an animal has consciousness? What about AI?
Consciousness is a private affair. There is no way of directly knowing what it is like to be another. We ...
It’s axiomatic among environmentalists that plastic packaging is a sustainability disaster. Hard science and life-cycle analysis say that’s not true
Plastic packaging can have substantially smaller environmental impacts—including 70% lower greenhouse gas emissions—compared to other packaging materials, according to a ...
Requiem for junk food? RFK, Jr. proposes banning the use of SNAP food stamps on non-essential junk foods but delivering won’t be easy
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly confirmed health and human services secretary, and Brooke Rollins, the new agriculture secretary, have both ...
Viewpoint: The v-Fluence attack file—How the Environmental Working Group undermines science, destroys careers and harms the environment
Just before Christmas Day, 2024, three months after a mendacious, coordinated activist onslaught, the communications consultancy, v- Fluence, began the ...
Viewpoint: 50 years after Asilomar set a fractured framework for regulating agricultural genetic enginnering, it’s time to embrace the technology’s full potential
Fifty years ago, scientists developed a regulatory framework for the safe use of recombinant DNA that focused on potential biosafety ...
‘Not unusual’: RFK, Jr. defends taking no action to curb surge in measles cases. Here’s why he is dangerously wrong
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has said that immunizations against measles and some other infectious diseases are unnecessary and risky. ...
Why the 3-D revolution has stalled
The so-called “disruptive” technology that is 3D printing, now in its thirties, [seems] to be coming back into fashion. Yet, ...
‘We’re running out of options’: After killing 166 million birds didn’t slow bird flu, what’s next?
When the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus made its first appearance at a U.S. poultry farm in February 2022, roughly 29,000 turkeys at ...
Viewpoint: ‘The issue is fairness, not discrimination’: With the governor’s backing, Maine allows mediocre male pole vaulter to dominate the female division one year after their conversion
If Democrats want to know why so many voters abandoned them in November, they could take a gander at the ...
CRISPR gene-edited foods: Three-quarters of Americans surveyed are oblivous to the latest innovations though the most informed view the technology positively
Consumer opposition to genetic modification and genetically modified (GM) foods is well documented in many studies. Whether consumer perceptions and ...
Promises or threats: Dairy industry on tenterhooks about Robert F Kennedy, Jrs. views on milk and other foods
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s appointment as Secretary of Health and Human Services has some farmers wondering—will he be a champion ...
RFK, Jr. cancels third vaccine planning and scheduling meeting, furthering endangering roll out of annual protective shots
The Food and Drug Administration ... canceled a planned March 13 committee meeting to update next winter's flu shot. ...
Viewpoint: In his latest dangerous health action, RFK. Jr. blocks CDC from informing patients about the health benefits of vaccines and instead hyping rare side-effects
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently ordered the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to halt ...
