Genetic Literacy Project
Viewpoint: Tylenol and the pseudoscience litigation playbook: Here’s how tort lawyer RFK, Jr. consorts with ambulance-chasing lawyers to shake-down companies making a safe and necessary product
Donald Trump held a lengthy press release where he spewed a lot of disinformation and gave dangerous medical advice. He ...
How gene editing of farm animals could help prevent a COVID-like bird flu epidemic
During a Westminster Hall debate in Parliament ..., former Defra Secretary Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP joined a growing list of political, ...
Viewpoint: Science be damned—RFK, Jr. has his mind made up about the causes of autism
In the seven months since he was sworn in as secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), ...
Viewpoint: Farmers take a hit—Trump agriculture and biotechnology budget cuts are hampering U.S. innovation
Imagine a world where crops thrive with less water and fewer pesticides, where livestock resist disease without antibiotics, and where ...
Viewpoint: RFK. Jr.’s MAHA ‘Health Freedom” movement is a singular health threat
"Health freedom” sounds so American – until you realize it’s been hijacked by RFK Jr. and MAHA to replace science ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s agricultural maelstrom: While U.S. agricultural output lags, opportunities for reform are being wasted
American agricultural leadership is being put to the test. Farmers are grappling with high input costs, non-tariff trade barriers, and ...
Viewpoint — ‘Less food waste, lower carbon footprints and a socially sensitive food system’: Tech-enabled farming intensification is the only science-based path to sustainability
Several trends become quickly apparent when we engage the public about agriculture. Consumers across the industrialized world reject concepts like ...
Understanding why people reject science could lead to solutions for rebuilding trust
Why are so many people anti-science? As experts on attitudes, persuasion and how humans are impacted by scientific innovations, our ...
GLP podcast: ‘Toxic’ baby food? Dismantling another tort-lawyer health scam
A few months ago, a law firm emailed one of us (Cameron) asking for help promoting their litigation against baby ...
Viewpoint: Why vaccine mandates are critical for public health
Vaccines are one of the most effective and life-saving scientific technologies in modern medicine. They save lives, prevent suffering, and ...
Vaccines, politics, and the fragile future of public health
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s reshaped federal vaccine panel is expected to vote this week to ...
Viewpoint: ‘A conveyor belt of agenda-driven science’: NPR’s anti-aquaculture hit piece is bought and paid for by activists
National Public Radio (NPR), once a beacon of earnest, if occasionally sanctimonious, reporting, has sunk to a new low, as ...
63% of Americans drink fluoridated water. Here’s a science breakdown of its benefits and hazards
Debates are hitting headlines as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voices new concerns about fluoride in public water systems. But what does the ...
Trump’s EPA will stop collecting emissions data from most polluting companies
The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their emissions of the heat-trapping ...
Viewpoint: Media tout alleged ‘danger’ of homeopathic levels of plastic. That’s scaremongering
Homeopathic levels of plastic are the latest environmental scaremongering fad (Nanoplastics! Microplastics!) dominating partisan corporate media when they are not ...
The less you know, the more you cockily believe you’re right: The Dunning-Kruger Effect sustains agricultural misinformation
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is a cognitive bias where individuals with limited knowledge or skills in a specific area tend to ...
Natural selection, artificial selection, and now political selection: Vaccine rejectionism is altering the course of evolution, and not in a good way
“A sharp partisan divide remains over new Covid boosters,” reads the headline announcing a recent poll from Politico, as respiratory ...
GLP podcast: Three phony health fads making your wallet lighter
"It really implies risk when there is none." That's how geneticist and farmer Kevin Folta summarizes the fatal flaw behind ...
Viewpoint: ‘Trump may need to ignore RFK, Jr. on food the way he does on energy, or he’s going to send a lot of his voters into bankruptcy’
Until the 1980s, the modern-day Malthus acolytes like Drs. Paul Ehrlich and John Holdren predicted Population Bombs and advocated for ...
The Science vs. MAHA battle that’s now unfolding at the CDC
Public health and access to lifesaving vaccines are on the line in a high-stakes leadership battle at the Centers for ...
GLP podcast: ‘Fight fire with fire.’ How one science advocate converts vaccine skeptics
Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...
Baby food panic, brought to you by trial lawyers hoping to prosecute by press release
Last week, I received an email from a law firm asking ACSH to promote its groundless allegations about the dangers ...
From plastic coasters to human hearts: Inside the race to print the human body
Fifteen years ago, 3‑D printing was heralded as the technology that would revolutionize manufacturing, democratizing production and allowing anyone with ...
Viewpoint: Video — Big Solar is gobbling up productive agricultural land and hurting farmers yet providing little energy or sustainabilty gains
I made this 10-minute documentary, SUNBLOCK, because I love farmers and ranchers and want to tell their stories. This film ...
Viewpoint — Fact checking MAHA mythmakers: How wellness influencers undermine American science and health
After RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA vaccine technology research programs last week, I had big plans of multiple articles I ...
Four ways to strip carbon out of agriculture and limit farming’s climate impacts
Carbon is a “hot topic” in an age of Climate Change (pun intended). That is playing out in unique ways ...
Confronting the elephant in the human biodiversity room — the explosive issue of IQ
Here’s a thought experiment. Imagine two widely separated human groups living for thousands of years in different cultural and ecological ...
GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?
The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...
