RFK, Jr. was approved as HHS secretary only because doctor-senator Bill Cassidy cast the deciding vote. Anti-vaxxers are now gunning for him

RFK, Jr. was approved as HHS secretary only because doctor-senator Bill Cassidy cast the deciding vote. Anti-vaxxers are now gunning for him

Amanda Seitz |
The ambitious liver doctor would go just about anywhere in his home state to give people the hepatitis B vaccine ...
Viewpoint — RFK, Jr. vs. fluoride: The next big health brawl—science be damned

Viewpoint — RFK, Jr. vs. fluoride: The next big health brawl—science be damned

Susan Goldhaber |
The EPA recently took its first step toward determining safe levels of fluoride in drinking water, publishing a "Preliminary Assessment ...
Viewpoint: Worried about Big Ag and Big Pharma? They’re nothing compared to the grifting hypocrisy of the MAHA wellness movement

Viewpoint: Worried about Big Ag and Big Pharma? They’re nothing compared to the grifting hypocrisy of the MAHA wellness movement

Paul Offit |
RFK Jr. rails endlessly against Big Pharm and Big Food. And, in many instances, for good reason. But there is ...
Viewpoint — Glyphosate: Ecological villain or environmental scapegoat? 

Viewpoint — Glyphosate: Ecological villain or environmental scapegoat? 

Dan Blaustein-Rejto |
Glyphosate may just be the most polarizing chemical in modern agriculture, if not modern society. Since the World Health Organization’s ...
RFK, Jr. and the Trump administration’s political purge of scientists echoes the darkest days of the McCarthy period

RFK, Jr. and the Trump administration’s political purge of scientists echoes the darkest days of the McCarthy period

Geoffrey Kabat |
Something sinister and yet vaguely familiar has been happening in American public health policy. This week’s federal court decision reversing ...
Viewpoint: What do organic, agroecology and regenerative agriculture have in common? They don’t work and aren’t sustainable

Viewpoint: What do organic, agroecology and regenerative agriculture have in common? They don’t work and aren’t sustainable

Andrew McGuire |
A farmer drastically reduces fertilizer applications, trusting soil biology to provide the needed nutrients. A crop consultant recommends a 10-species ...
Bamboo shoots are the next ‘superfood’? Don’t believe the hype, it’s not based on science

Bamboo shoots are the next ‘superfood’? Don’t believe the hype, it’s not based on science

Lee Smith, Robert MacKinnon |
According to the New York Post, our research team has discovered a much-overlooked “superfood”: bamboo shoots. Before you rush out ...
Viewpoint: Opposing expanding nuclear energy production—Here’s what left-wing junk science looks like

Viewpoint: Opposing expanding nuclear energy production—Here’s what left-wing junk science looks like

Ted Nordhaus |
If you want to know why progress on nuclear energy was so halting during the Biden years, despite the administration’s ...
Viewpoint: As gun laws weaken, deaths rise sharply

Viewpoint: As gun laws weaken, deaths rise sharply

Chuck Dinerstein |
The numbers upend a familiar narrative. While stronger gun laws are linked to fewer firearm deaths overall, the real story ...
What happens to large pieces of plastic as it breaks down in the ocean?

What happens to large pieces of plastic as it breaks down in the ocean?

Kate Spencer, Nan Wu |
Think of ocean plastic and you may picture bottles and bags bobbing on the waves, slowly drifting out to sea ...
How war, politics and religion shape wildlife evolution

How war, politics and religion shape wildlife evolution

Elizabeth Carlen |
People often consider evolution to be a process that occurs in nature in the background of human society. But evolution ...
Viewpoint: Vaccine skeptics permeating the Trump administration are remaking U.S. health policy—for the worse

Viewpoint: Vaccine skeptics permeating the Trump administration are remaking U.S. health policy—for the worse

Rachana Pradhan |
Martin Kulldorff, chair of the Trump administration’s reconstituted CDC vaccine panel, made a shocking — and misleading — statement as ...
Viewpoint—Mifepristone birth control pill: Congressional right-wingers and RFK, Jr. HHS who raise doubts about the safety of the treatment ignore reams of science 

Viewpoint—Mifepristone birth control pill: Congressional right-wingers and RFK, Jr. HHS who raise doubts about the safety of the treatment ignore reams of science 

Jess Steier, Sarah Berg |
[On January 14, 2025], the Senate held its first health committee hearing of the year. The topic? Whether mifepristone, the medication commonly ...
Disinformation Attacks on Food and Farming: Year in Review

Disinformation Attacks on Food and Farming: Year in Review

Genetic Literacy Project |
Global farming and food policy is under intensive attack from an alliance of left-leaning environmental activists and the ideologically mushy ...
Viewpoint: Organic proponents are wellness vaccine-skeptic grifters but with better branding

Viewpoint: Organic proponents are wellness vaccine-skeptic grifters but with better branding

Andrea Love |
The organic industry is a multi-billion dollar cash cow (get it—I love a good pun) that is based on zero ...
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Organic food consumer snapshot: Okay benefits but only if cost premium is under 5%

Sago |
Understanding what truly drives consumers to choose organic or locally produced foods requires looking beyond assumptions and into real behavior ...
Challenging Kennedy—MAHA skepticism disinformation: No, the vaccine schedule is not a haphazard, scientific mess

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 ...
Viewpoint: TB served in a glass—The legislative rush to legitimize raw milk

Viewpoint: TB served in a glass—The legislative rush to legitimize raw milk

Barbara Pfeffer Billauer |
Once, pasteurization helped conquer “The White Plague”, saving millions of lives from TB and other diseases. Now, legislators across the ...
An effective safety net for vaccines and the people who need them—and why RFK Jr. is poised to cut it

An effective safety net for vaccines and the people who need them—and why RFK Jr. is poised to cut it

Henry Miller |
For nearly four decades, Americans who believe they have been harmed by a vaccine have had access to a little-known ...
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Viewpoint: Race and sex: The danger of oversimplifying the spectrum of human differences

C. Brandon Ogbunu |
In 2021, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz compared critical race theory — an academic subfield that examines the role of racism in American institutions, laws, ...
Is Vitamin D the anti-aging pill we’ve been looking for?

Is Vitamin D the anti-aging pill we’ve been looking for?

Dervla Kelly |
Vitamin D supplements could help protect the caps on our chromosomes that slow ageing, sparking hopes the sunshine vitamin might ...
Human differences: The concept of ‘race’ is infused with historical prejudice but ‘genetic populations’ are real. What’s the difference?

Human differences: The concept of ‘race’ is infused with historical prejudice but ‘genetic populations’ are real. What’s the difference?

John Jackson Jr. |
In the recent flurry of executive orders from President Donald Trump, one warned of “a distorted narrative” about race “driven ...
“It's raining neonicotinoids in Japan!” How the French media, environmentalists, and activist scientists conspired to distort science and severely damage the farm economy

“It’s raining neonicotinoids in Japan!” How the French media, environmentalists, and activist scientists conspired to distort science and severely damage the farm economy

André Heitz |
Based on only eleven rain collections, researchers from Tokyo and Hokkaido Universities detected five neonicotinoids in Japanese rainwater at sub-nanogram-per-liter ...
Misguided MAHA: Its vision of transforming American agriculture would increase food prices, habitat loss, and emissions

Misguided MAHA: Its vision of transforming American agriculture would increase food prices, habitat loss, and emissions

Dan Blaustein-Rejto |
Earlier this spring, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked the rows of John Sawyer’s Texas farm, the young corn brushing against ...
Viewpoint: Reinforcing ideology: Right-wingers far more likely than liberals to source most news from like-minded social media

Viewpoint: Reinforcing ideology: Right-wingers far more likely than liberals to source most news from like-minded social media

Zicheng Cheng |
People on TikTok tend to follow accounts that align with their own political beliefs, meaning the platform is creating political ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. needs an update on Biology 101. Let’s start

Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. needs an update on Biology 101. Let’s start

Ricki Lewis |
The only requirement for assuming the position of US Secretary for Health and Human Services is being picked by the ...
Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘batshit crazy health conspiracy theories’

Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘batshit crazy health conspiracy theories’

David Zaruk |
[The] Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission released their second report: The MAHA Strategy. It aims to focus the United States ...