Viewpoint: A physician who peddles pseudoscience and profits off health disinformation. Perfect Trump pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid

Viewpoint: A physician who peddles pseudoscience and profits off health disinformation. Perfect Trump pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid

Andrea Love |
Mehmet Oz has a net worth of over $100 million because of his career-long grift. Mehmet Oz is the OG ...
Viewpoint: 15 explanations for why activists lie and try to scare people about ‘killer’ chemicals, genetically engineered crops and nuclear energy

Viewpoint: 15 explanations for why activists lie and try to scare people about ‘killer’ chemicals, genetically engineered crops and nuclear energy

David Zaruk |
We always hear NGOs saying that we cannot trust industry, that we have to exclude industry evidence or that industry ...
Viewpoint: Does peanut oil in vaccines cause an allergy to peanuts? That’s the latest RFK, Jr. health claim and like most others he’s wrong

Viewpoint: Does peanut oil in vaccines cause an allergy to peanuts? That’s the latest RFK, Jr. health claim and like most others he’s wrong

Andrea Love |
I want to address this recent excerpt from RFK Jr.’s appearance on Mikhaila [Peterson's] podcast, so let’s get into it ...
How has climate change reduced crop yields over the past quarter century

How has climate change reduced crop yields over the past quarter century

Hannah Ritchie |
Agriculture is arguably the industry most sensitive to changes in the climate. Crops need CO2, water — not too little ...
Why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would be catastrophic for science and America's health

Why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would be catastrophic for science and America’s health

Andrea Love |
Today is a dark day for the US, the rest of society, and our planet. The above header was actually ...
Viewpoint: Elle MacPherson claims she cured her cancer using ‘intuitive and holistic’ alternative medicine. She’s ‘lying’ and why it matters

Viewpoint: Elle MacPherson claims she cured her cancer using ‘intuitive and holistic’ alternative medicine. She’s ‘lying’ and why it matters

Andrea Love |
I’ve been wanting to start to dig into cancer pseudoscience for a long time, and in my other pieces, I’ve ...
Part I: USDA’s dereliction in containing bird flu could cause the outbreak to escalate into a deadly epidemic

Part I: USDA’s dereliction in containing bird flu could cause the outbreak to escalate into a deadly epidemic

Henry Miller |
When dairy cows in Texas started falling ill last spring, alarm bells started to ring. Veterinarians had found feverish cows ...
What is Mexico’s trade war targeting glyphosate and GMO corn really about

What is Mexico’s trade war targeting glyphosate and GMO corn really about

Val Giddings |
Thomas Jefferson famously noted that "[T]he greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to ...
Mental illness is an under-reported, post-infection consequence of COVID. Here’s what you can do to mitigate your risk.

Mental illness is an under-reported, post-infection consequence of COVID. Here’s what you can do to mitigate your risk.

Henry Miller |
Misguided COVID-minimizers like to say that COVID-19 is no worse than a cold that lasts a few days and then ...
Trump oversaw one of the great public health accomplishments of the century in the discovery of a Covid vaccine. Now he's leading the campaign against it

Trump oversaw one of the great public health accomplishments of the century in the discovery of a Covid vaccine. Now he’s leading the campaign against it

Darius Tahir |
More than four years ago, former President Donald Trump’s administration accelerated the development and rollout of the covid-19 vaccine. The ...
These people deliberately exposed themselves to COVID to figure out why some people are naturally immune. Here’s what we learned

These people deliberately exposed themselves to COVID to figure out why some people are naturally immune. Here’s what we learned

Kaylee Worlock, Marko Nikolic |
Throughout the pandemic, one of the key questions on everyone’s mind was why some people avoided getting COVID, while others ...
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Viewpoint: Consumers Report bungles science, promotes another food scare—No, Lunchables will not give your kids cancer

Susan Goldhaber |
“Should you pack Lunchables for Your Kid’s School Lunch?” asks a piece in the April 9th edition of Consumer Reports ...
Viewpoint: The EPA just banned a crop chemical. What does that say about activist claims that the agency has become a dupe of the chemical industry?

Viewpoint: The EPA just banned a crop chemical. What does that say about activist claims that the agency has become a dupe of the chemical industry?

Marc Brazeau |
Last month, the EPA issued an emergency suspension of the herbicide Dacthal and has initiated a process to cancel all ...
Clickbait viral headlines claim that chemicals are sending cancer rates soaring. That’s not what the science says

Clickbait viral headlines claim that chemicals are sending cancer rates soaring. That’s not what the science says

Andrea Love |
Cancer is widely misunderstood by most people. If you talk to anyone, they would know the term cancer. Most people ...
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How anti-Semitism shaped the genes of Jewish people

Ricki Lewis |
Evidence of past outrages is not only in the history books. It's also written in our genomes ...
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Environmental-Industrial Complex: How governments, advocacy groups, ‘progressive’ foundations and industry profit off of climate fears

David Zaruk |
Is history repeating itself? In 1961, US President Eisenhower gave an alarming farewell address, warning that the military-industrial (Congressional) complex ...
Race and the Olympics: 'Yes', Blacks will sweep the running events, and 'yes', genetics is the reason (and Eurasian whites will dominate field events and weight lifting)

Race and the Olympics: ‘Yes’, Blacks will sweep the running events, and ‘yes’, genetics is the reason (and Eurasian whites will dominate field events and weight lifting)

Jon Entine, Patrick Whittle |
The Summer Olympics is rightly billed as an international celebration of global diversity. Athletes are competing and excelling from all ...
Viewpoint: England’s Precision Breeding Act 'remains an empty shell and serves no functional purpose’ — Will politics scuttle crop gene editing future?

Viewpoint: England’s Precision Breeding Act ‘remains an empty shell and serves no functional purpose’ — Will politics scuttle crop gene editing future?

Mario Caccamo |
In March 2023, after 10 months of scrutiny and debate, both Houses of Parliament confirmed their mandate to remove precision ...
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Viewpoint: Organic chemicals don’t harm essential soil microbes — but glyphosate does? Propaganda claims collapse after real-world study

Hank Campbell |
Is glyphosate damaging essential microbes in soil? A multi-year study sought to answer the question using real-world conditions ...
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The escalating arms race between viruses and humans: Why a universal coronavirus vaccine is so critical

Henry Miller |
The arrival of the next pandemic is a matter of when, not if. "COVID-19 was the third major and serious coronavirus epidemic ...
How the media portrayed a study: “High Levels of Glyphosate Found in Sperm” – What data actually show: Almost no chemical traces and no effect on sperm

How the media portrayed a study: “High Levels of Glyphosate Found in Sperm” – What data actually show: Almost no chemical traces and no effect on sperm

Kevin Folta |
The headlines explode in horror and the anti-glyphosate mobs spring to action. The headlines scream: Males may not be able ...
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Viewpoint: After nearly two dozen Roundup trials, what have juries learned about the link between glyphosate and cancer?

Hank Campbell |
A lawyer who claims his client, a government union employee, got cancer from using the common weedkiller Roundup, is whining that his ...
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Viewpoint: Uncomfortable truth — ‘Organic farming takes too much land to have any chance to feed the world in a climate-changed environment’

Science for Sustainable Agriculture (SSA) was recently asked by the farming media to comment on a policy paper issued by the ...
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How Wegovy and Ozempic could transform our food systems

Lucy Stitzer |
Can GLP-1 drugs for obesity and diabetes, like Ozempic and Wegovy, help change the food industry? Consumers on these drugs ...
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Bumblebees threatened by pesticides? Independent German university study finds wild bees ‘relatively resistant’ to even potent chemical cocktails

University of Würzburg |
Bumblebees appear to be quite resistant to common pesticides. This is shown by a new study, the results of which ...
Viewpoint: Do we have to give up beef to limit climate change?

Viewpoint: Do we have to give up beef to limit climate change?

Lucy Stitzer |
Are cows really a major cause of climate change? Wealthy nations are not pushing people to switch to a plant-based ...