Genetic Literacy Project
Legislating hesitancy: Anti-vaccine lobbying is dismantling state-level vaccine protections
As vaccine exemptions spread and courts are weaponized in the name of “medical freedom,” preventable childhood diseases are roaring back—with ...
There is no clear evidence (yet) that microplastics is driving soaring under-50 cancer rate increase, but they are a serious and growing health threat
Links between environmental exposures and increases in cancer rates take time to emerge. They range from community-wide disasters, like the ...
Viewpoint: Chemophobia infects the Washington Post: A case study of a reporter snookered by science-denying environmentalists
In the latest Washington Post scare story on the dangers of plastics, with the innocent title: These kitchen items may be ...
Politicization of Health & Science: Year in Review
Ideology-driven misinformation is a grave and growing threat to science and society. False claims spread faster than facts; confusion has ...
Europe pursues three different regulatory paths in efforts to open the gates to agricultural gene editing
The landscape of agricultural innovation in Europe is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. New Genomic Techniques (NGTs)—including highly ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘useful idiots’: His 6-point plant that undermines U.S. health policy rolls along
It seems like ancient history now, but it was really only three months ago that I first wrote a post ...
Glyphosate’s climate dividend: Weedkiller reduces greenhouse pollution equal to taking 21.8 million cars off the road each year
This paper estimates the annual global carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emissions from the manufacture, distribution and farm level use of ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s cronies offered global vaccine expert Dr. Paul Offit $1 million to debate the safety of vaccines. He said no. Why? They’re disingenuous and nuts
Several years ago, people representing RFK Jr., who at the time was head of the anti-vaccine group, Children’s Health Defense, ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s Denmark vaccine schedule delusion—Why it would be a health disaster in the U.S.
It’s official. CNN confirmed that the Department of Health and Human Services was planning to announce an overhaul of the ...
GLP podcast: Evolutionary mismatch. Is civilization wrecking our health?
There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...
Viewpoint: Killing children, RFK, Jr.-CDC-Trump administration’s plan to roll back hepatitis birth dosing will skyrocket cases and lead to preventable diseases
On December 14, 1999, a previously healthy infant was admitted to a Michigan hospital with diarrhea and jaundice. Within hours, ...
Organic food consumer snapshot: Okay benefits but only if cost premium is under 5%
Understanding what truly drives consumers to choose organic or locally produced foods requires looking beyond assumptions and into real behavior ...
Viewpoint: U.S. and Europe lagging behind China’s embrace of crop gene editing
Ships, chips, and missiles dominate discussions about defense. But don’t forget food. Secure supplies are key to supply-chain sovereignty — ...
Viewpoint: The functional medicine scam—Its ‘board certified’ practitioners peddle unnecessary tests and useless supplements
"Board certified" is a common and persuasive credential, particularly in medicine, often implying a recognized level of expertise. However, this ...
Viewpoint: In trying to link aluminum in vaccines to autism, RFK, Jr. unsurprisingly again bungles the science
RFK Jr is a liar. Full stop. He has been for decades — it’s what has led to his profitable ...
Yummy goldenberries with their pineapple-mango taste could transform via gene editing into a mass grocery market star
Goldenberries taste like a cross between pineapple and mango, pack the nutritional punch of a superfood, and are increasingly popular ...
Utopian fantasy or realistic tools? Deploying synthetic biology to jump crop yields sustainably
As the climate crisis accelerates, there’s a desperate need to rapidly reduce carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere, both by ...
Might CRISPR gene editing in medicine open up a can of ‘unintended consequences’ worms? RNA advances could address that threat
The United States Food and Drug Administration has approved the first-ever clinical trial that uses CRISPR-Cas13 RNA editing. Its aim ...
50 million tinnitus sufferers in the US take note: This device might relieve the often-devastating ring-like ‘noise’
Tinnitus, the rockstar of auditory annoyances, is a buzzing, ringing, or tone that only you can hear. It's a party ...
GLP podcast: Ketamine—miracle depression treatment, or recreational nightmare?
Widely used as a battlefield anesthetic in the later stages of the Vietnam War, ketamine has emerged as a key ...
Viewpoint: An inside look at the turmoil and science hypocrisy at RFK Jr.’s CDC
John Weiser, a doctor and researcher, has treated people with HIV since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic in the ...
Most scientists reject social media while others consider it their obligation to counter junk claims. Here’s the best of the best
Once upon a time, science communication was a niche hobby, reserved for the rare few who could translate lab jargon ...
Challenging Kennedy—MAHA skepticism disinformation: No, the vaccine schedule is not a haphazard, scientific mess
Parents face an overwhelming amount of conflicting vaccine information, so it’s natural for questions to surface: Why are some vaccines given ...
Activist claims that U.S. crop yields are in decline are mostly propaganda
For years, climate activists have pointed to the threat of declining crop yields as a reason to pass the most ...
Viewpoint: Follow the science? In this era of hyper-partisanship, Republicans and Democrats follow different paths
We’re often told to “follow the science” — a comforting phrase that suggests clarity, objectivity, and consensus. But in today’s ...
Beautiful and delicious mutants on your plate: The misunderstood world of crop improvement
When most of us hear the word mutation, the images that come to mind are not positive. We think of ...
GLP podcast: Dr. Strangelove come to life. The anti-fluoride conspiracy, explained
For 70 years, a persistent minority of academics and activists has claimed that fluoridated drinking water poses a serious but ...
Viewpoint: Toxic politics and the culture wars—MIT’s ‘Undark’ caves to the MAHA—RFK, Jr.—predatort lobby
Few issues reveal the corrosion of scientific reasoning in contemporary politics more clearly than the escalating fight over the alleged ...
