Viewpoint: Cheryl Hine’s journey from Hollywood to MAHA: Former B-list actress provides an affable front for philandering, former drug addict husband, RFK, Jr.

Viewpoint: Cheryl Hine’s journey from Hollywood to MAHA: Former B-list actress provides an affable front for philandering, former drug addict husband, RFK, Jr.

Ellen Gamerman | Wall Street Journal |
As an actress, the public figure Cheryl Hines was just another Hollywood liberal. But as Mrs. Bobby Kennedy, she’s a ...
Accusing them of being “woke” for endorsing diversity in medicine, RFK, Jr. plans to dismiss all 16 members of cancer screening advisory panel

Accusing them of being “woke” for endorsing diversity in medicine, RFK, Jr. plans to dismiss all 16 members of cancer screening advisory panel

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is planning to remove all the members of an advisory panel ...
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Food and farming industry pushes back against RFK, Jr.’s MAHA-targeting of agricultural chemicals

The MAHA movement argues that a heavily consolidated and industrialized U.S. food industry is the central factor in Americans’ high ...
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Alien chronicles: Here’s how the Pentagon fabricated evidence and allowed rumors to fester to cover up its secret-weapons programs

A tiny Pentagon office had spent months investigating conspiracy theories about secret Washington UFO programs when it uncovered a shocking ...
Viewpoint: Brace yourself–Here is how some universities prepare students to become sex therapists

Viewpoint: Brace yourself–Here is how some universities prepare students to become sex therapists

Naomi Best | Wall Street Journal |
What began as a simple accommodation request in a required course called Human Sexuality turned into a case study in ...
Biotech companies are pioneering research to use electricity to cure diseases. Here’s how

Biotech companies are pioneering research to use electricity to cure diseases. Here’s how

Electricity is gaining newfound traction as a potential treatment for diseases, from rheumatoid arthritis to hard-to-treat cancers including glioblastoma and ...
Risk averse, precautionary Europe is missing out on the technology revolution

Risk averse, precautionary Europe is missing out on the technology revolution

The world’s technology revolution is leaving Europe behind. Europe lacks any homegrown alternatives to the likes of Google, Amazon or Meta. Apple’s market value is ...
Why has there been a surge in adult autism diagnoses?

Why has there been a surge in adult autism diagnoses?

More U.S. adults than ever before have autism, and many are being diagnosed not as children, but in later years ...
‘AI will play a central role in the human experience’: Mark Zuckerberg on the future of artificial intelligence in our daily lives

‘AI will play a central role in the human experience’: Mark Zuckerberg on the future of artificial intelligence in our daily lives

“I think people are going to want a system that knows them well and that kind of understands them in ...
‘Viewpoint: ‘Going full RFK, Jr’.—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton promotes conspiracy theories about dental hygiene and breakfast cereal

‘Viewpoint: ‘Going full RFK, Jr’.—Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton promotes conspiracy theories about dental hygiene and breakfast cereal

[Ken] Paxton, the Texas Attorney General and Senate candidate ... idea of a good government cause is to sue ...
Bayer ponders bankruptcy option in renewed push to resolve 60,000 pending glyphosate suits

Bayer ponders bankruptcy option in renewed push to resolve 60,000 pending glyphosate suits

Bayer is making another push to resolve lawsuits linking the popular weedkiller Roundup to cancer, while exploring a bankruptcy filing ...
Disrupt the global food supply? Trump officials dubious about RFK, Jr.—MAHA plan to ban crop chemicals

Disrupt the global food supply? Trump officials dubious about RFK, Jr.—MAHA plan to ban crop chemicals

A bid by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to label pesticides as a potential cause of U.S. health woes ...
Viewpoint: ‘Manufacturing in region for region”—How raising tariffs could help reduce climate instability

Viewpoint: ‘Manufacturing in region for region”—How raising tariffs could help reduce climate instability

Amy Chan | Wall Street Journal |
[P]resident Trump’s trade war might accelerate environmental progress. That may sound counterintuitive. The Trump administration is no champion of green ...
‘It’s not a eureka solution’: RFK, Jr.’s NIH kills funding for future COVID vaccines to support controversial longshot ‘universal’ shot

‘It’s not a eureka solution’: RFK, Jr.’s NIH kills funding for future COVID vaccines to support controversial longshot ‘universal’ shot

In a shift away from next-generation Covid-19 vaccines, the Trump administration is investing $500 million in a vaccine project championed ...
Anorexia cases in the U.S. have doubled in recent years, and treatments remain elusive

Anorexia cases in the U.S. have doubled in recent years, and treatments remain elusive

Over 10,000 Americans die from eating disorders every year, according to the National Association for Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders. Such prolonged ...
The Longevity Business Is Booming—and Its Scientists Are Clashing"

The Longevity Business Is Booming—and Its Scientists Are Clashing”

[Leonard Guarente's pet field of improving human longevity] has moved from the fringes to science’s hot center. It’s drawn billions ...
China’s Frankenstein? Controversial scientist He Jiankui who stirred a global debate by genetically modifying babies to prevent HIV disease now targets Alzheimer’s

China’s Frankenstein? Controversial scientist He Jiankui who stirred a global debate by genetically modifying babies to prevent HIV disease now targets Alzheimer’s

Liyan Qi | Wall Street Journal |
International media has dubbed [He Jiankui] “China’s Frankenstein.” He has no academic affiliations. He declines to reveal where his funding ...
How neurotherapy transformed a clutchless elite skater into a champion

How neurotherapy transformed a clutchless elite skater into a champion

For years, Amber Glenn was one of the top figure skaters in the U. S.—and also its most inconsistent. She ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s tariffs are squeezing American farmers. We are still in wait-and-see territory but tensions are building

Viewpoint: Trump’s tariffs are squeezing American farmers. We are still in wait-and-see territory but tensions are building

Blake Hurst | Wall Street Journal |
The trade war hit my farm and greenhouse business here in northwest Missouri on March 4. The first email I ...
Viewpoint: University of California-Berkeley administration did nothing when radical feminist group excused the raping and mutilating of Israeli women

Viewpoint: University of California-Berkeley administration did nothing when radical feminist group excused the raping and mutilating of Israeli women

[S]tudents [at the University of California-Berkeley] ... are in a required comparative-literature class that mandates they attend [a lecture entitled] ...
Can trees help solve AI’s massive power needs?

Can trees help solve AI’s massive power needs?

Ryan Dezember | Wall Street Journal |
Power producer Drax is scouting locations in the American pine belt to build electricity generators fueled by burning wood chips ...
As key ally of RFK. Jr., contoversial Environmental Working Group lobbyist is poised to help steer American health, food and agriculture policy

As key ally of RFK. Jr., contoversial Environmental Working Group lobbyist is poised to help steer American health, food and agriculture policy

Jesse Newman | Wall Street Journal |
Efforts to overhaul the U.S. food system have long been stymied by industry lobbying and glacial bureaucracy, said [Scott] Faber, ...
‘Women are biologically female’: Trump’s executive order will not be so easy to implement, and here's why

‘Women are biologically female’: Trump’s executive order will not be so easy to implement, and here’s why

One of President Trump’s first-day executive orders proclaimed that “women are biologically female, and men are biologically male.” It sounds ...
Viewpoint: Wall Street Journal opposes RFK, Jr.’s HHS nomination—Risk is high he will enrich his trial-lawyer friends at the expense of public health and medical innovation

Viewpoint: Wall Street Journal opposes RFK, Jr.’s HHS nomination—Risk is high he will enrich his trial-lawyer friends at the expense of public health and medical innovation

Wall Street Journal |
President Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Health and Human Services secretary in return for his presidential endorsement. But Senate Republicans ...
Possibility of Trump tariffs has agricultural community in knots

Possibility of Trump tariffs has agricultural community in knots

Kirk Maltais | Wall Street Journal |
As the threat of tariffs looms, the U.S. agriculture market is expected to be one of the main industries to ...
The controversy over ultra-processed foods: Some are healthy, some are not

The controversy over ultra-processed foods: Some are healthy, some are not

Andrea Peterson | Wall Street Journal |
[One] study is helping to answer a pressing nutrition question: Which ultra-processed foods are harming our health—and which might not ...
Breast cancer requires surgery, right? Not so fast

Breast cancer requires surgery, right? Not so fast

Brianna Abbott | Wall Street Journal |
When a woman learns she has breast cancer, her reaction is often: take it out. Now doctors say that might ...