New York Times
Viewpoint: CRISPR and mRNA — under attack by technology skeptics — poised to save millions of children with rare diseases
We call them rare diseases, but there is nothing rare about the suffering they cause. Some 25 million Americans, nearly ...
Trump science funding cuts sending scientists abroad
[T]he Partnership for Public Service, [a] nonpartisan organization in Washington, estimated that 95,000 employees had departed federal science agencies from September 2024 ...
With the Strait of Hormuz mostly shut-down, the last oil shipments of oil going to Europe and Asia will land in mid-April. They are turning to coal.
[Soon], the final deliveries of oil and liquefied natural gas to Asia that passed through the Strait of Hormuz before ...
PTSD is almost incurable. Psychedelics can help — but only in three U.S. states and Australia
Over the past two years, Australia, a country long known for its strict drug laws, has been allowing psychiatrists to ...
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 ...
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 ...
As vaccine disinformation sweeps the country, pediatricians struggle to respond
Across the country, clinicians like Dr. [Alissa] Parker, who also holds a doctorate in nursing practice, are contending with a ...
RFK, Jr. vaccine rebuke: Judge reverses Trump administration childhood and Covid vaccine policies
In a severe blow to the Trump administration’s health agenda, a federal judge in Massachusetts [on March 16, 2026] blocked the ...
Iran creates an alternate war reality: Social networks awash with AI-generated videos showing its fake destructive power
A torrent of fake videos and images generated by artificial intelligence have overrun social networks during the first weeks of ...
RFK, Jr. getting heat from MAHA for bowing to Trump and ‘abandoning’ anti-vaccine dogma
On Mr. Kennedy’s watch, millions of children in recent months still received Covid shots, “the deadliest vaccine ever made,” as ...
‘We were lied to’: Will Trump’s order to increase the domestic supply of the weedkiller glyphosate split MAHA?
[T]he executive order Mr. Trump issued February 17 to increase domestic production of glyphosate — a widely used weedkiller and ...
‘A chill through the entire vaccine industry’: RFK., Jr.’s flip-flop on Moderna’s mRNA vaccine latest setback
When Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was picked in November 2024 to become the next health secretary, public health experts worried ...
The MAGA right’s weird obsession with the slur word ‘retard’
... [A] woman posted a photograph on social media of a purple hat she had knitted .... The cozy scene ...
Non-human animals and even bacteria are prone to spread misinformation
[In 2025], the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine issued a warning about the dangers of misinformation. Social media platforms are ...
Why supplements are (almost always) a waste and often risky
Some people have vitamin or mineral deficiencies and rely on supplements to manage them, said Pieter Cohen, an internist at ...
Rejecting global science guidance, RFK, Jr.’s vaccine panel chair says polio shots should be optional
Dr. Kirk Milhoan, a pediatric cardiologist who is chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, said that he did ...
‘We are approaching a watershed moment for psychedelic health care with ‘magic mushroom’ psilocybin the star’
In the billion-dollar race to commercialize psychedelic medicine, psilocybin, a naturally occurring hallucinogen better known as magic mushrooms, or “shrooms,” ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. and the future of children’s vaccines—Less science guidance, more parental gut opinions
For decades, Americans have looked to the federal government for advice on which vaccines their children should get and when ...
Viewpoint: With indiscriminate cuts to food programs, the U.S., not nature, is destabilizing global agriculture
[L]ately, the United States, not nature, has created the biggest uncertainty for global agriculture. Until last year, when the Trump ...
As abortion pills face new politically motivated legal threats, a new study defends the FDA’s evidence-based science
The abortion pill mifepristone is one of the most politically contentious medications in America, one increasingly targeted by anti-abortion activists ...
Coalition of medical expert organizations formed to counteract RFK, Jr.’s rejectionist recommendations
Six leading medical organizations plan to ask the courts to throw out revisions to the childhood vaccination schedule .... Mr ...
‘A whole lot of (methane) gas’: Grass-fed beef is not better for the climate, experts agree
Roughly a quarter of all global greenhouse gases come from food production, and beef accounts for the single biggest share ...
Vaccines do more than prevent disease, especially for older adults
Let’s be clear. The primary reason to be vaccinated against shingles is that two shots provide 90 percent protection against a painful, ...
Despite ‘no conflicts of interest’ pledge, several of Kennedy’s dietary advisors have ties to the meat and dairy industry
Soon after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in as the nation’s health secretary, he promised to overhaul the federal ...
RFK, Jr. ends ‘war on saturated fats’: A win for meat-maxing influencers, a loss for common-sense eating
For decades, nutrition experts and health officials have warned against eating too much saturated fat. Red meat, full-fat dairy products, ...
Supreme Court may consider blocking further suits targeting the weedkiller glyphosate, which global regulatory agencies have found safe
The Supreme Court is poised to decide whether to take up a case involving weedkillers and cancer that could effectively ...
Viewpoint: ‘Science is always evolving’ is a dangerous excuse to reject it
As popular mistrust of expert opinion grows, we increasingly encounter the following skeptical argument about science: Historically, even well-established theories ...
Viewpoint: Wrecking havoc on American health—RFK, Jr.’s grim first year legacy
In the 11 months since he was confirmed as health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has wreaked steady havoc on ...
