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Viewpoint: America’s food-safety system is being methodically dismantled by the Trump administration.
America's food-safety infrastructure is being quietly hollowed out even as outbreaks grow more complex and harder to trace, journalist Eric ...
Viewpoint: With Trump’s declining mental health and an incapacitated Mitch McConnell unlikely to return to the Senate, America’s gerontocracy needs a Public Physician
Senator Mitch McConnell, 84, hasn't spoken publicly since an ambulance took him from his Washington home on June 14th, 2026 ...
Kennedy’s HHS set to define ultra-processed foods—but will the slippery designation make scientific sense?
The federal government is about to attempt what nutrition scientists haven't managed: a workable definition of "ultra-processed food." HHS Secretary ...
Will the MAHA movement save the GOP this fall — or help bury it? This man may be key
Tony Lyons knows how Republicans can win the midterm elections later this year. All they need to do, as he ...
Viewpoint: Cheddar cheese from unpasteurized milk? Cheese linked to e coli outbreak but Raw Farm and organic grocery stores reject recalls
Pasteurization exists for a reason: It is a time-tested way to make sure that dairy products don’t contain bacteria that ...
Viewpoint: RFK Jr.’s war on the CDC may be too extreme even for Trump
... Acting CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya said something that no other prominent health leader in the Trump administration has. “I ...
Viewpoint: ‘Will Elon Musk face any consequences for Grok, his sexual harassment bot?’
For more than a week ..., anyone could go online and use a tool owned and promoted by the world’s ...
Outside the boundaries of modern science? Gene editing opens the door to treat rare diseases
Fyodor Urnov, the scientific director of UC Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), showed me a list of rare diseases and ...
Viewpoint: Revisiting the debate over genes and IQ
In The Bell Curve, Murray and Herrnstein argue that intelligence, as measured by an IQ score, is a crucial determinant of ...
Anti-vaccination advocates romanticize over a safe pre-shot past that never existed
The past does contain its share of treasures, and it can be hard to accept that a world so rife ...