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Fertility fraud: Direct-to-consumer DNA tests show thousands of women are illegally impregnated every year by deviant doctors. The laws need updating
To thousands of women gifted with childbirth through assisted reproductive technologies (ART) and their children - the practice can only ...
‘Hybrid of Satan’: PolitiFact debunks vaccine rejectionist film ‘Watch the Water’ claiming COVID vaccine is snake venom
A new anti-vaccine documentary ridiculously claims that the coronavirus is not a virus, but a synthetic version of snake venom that ...
Organ transplants from animal donors could be a godsend for many — but they may also provide a breeding ground for novel diseases
Three out of four new diseases are zoonotic, meaning they have evolved to infect new host species. For example, a ...
PEW and transhumanism: Public has mixed concerns about arriving era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and human enhancement
Americans regard advances in artificial intelligence and human enhancement technologies with a degree of caution and uncertainty. A new Pew Research ...
How genetic engineering is creating more nutritious, healthier food and protecting crops from ravaging diseases
Despite the objections and protestations of the anti-GMO advocates who equate genetic engineering with “Frankenfoods” and utilize fear and scare ...
Alternative and natural medicine quackery is on the rise. Here’s why the placebo effect is part of the problem
For several decades now, many scientists, including me, have been working hard to reveal the full power and scope of ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine backlash is not going away — and its long term consequences are grim
As of January 25, 2022, some 40% of Americans [1] have not been fully vaccinated. [2] This, notwithstanding valiant efforts ...
Unveiling the genome of the ancient dingo — whose DNA is in every dog in the world
“Maybe a dingo ate your baby!” suggested Elaine Benis (Julia Louis Dreyfus) in an episode of Seinfeld in season 3, ...
Viewpoint: Before we ban all PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ — found in products from non-stick frying pans to medical equipment — let’s require ideologically-neutral cost-benefit analysis
Recently, calls for a complete ban of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever-chemicals”, have intensified in the ...
Where should society draw ethical lines for experimental CRISPR gene therapies that appear able to cure diseases?
It has been more than a year since Markus Mapara, MD, a professor of medicine and director of blood and ...
Why the developing world isn’t reaping benefits from the human genomics revolution
Since the first human genome was sequenced in the early 2000s, scientists have touted the breakthrough as a blessing to humanity ...
Part II: How COVID upended the taboo on limiting constructive discussion about human biodiversity
The coronavirus crisis has brought to light the societal downside of ignoring patterned, population-based differences. Consider the latest research findings ...
The humans we haven’t met yet
Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t. In my opinion, far too many species have been lumped together into this one ...
Viewpoint: Eugenics has become unacceptable in modern society — except when it’s used to support termination of genetically abnormal fetuses
American partisan politics has just been inflamed by implementation of a Texas ban on abortions once an embryo’s heartbeat is ...
Viewpoint: From forced confessions to believing that vaccines cause autism, brainwashing has a harsh history
In 1937, the longtime Bolshevik leader Georgy Pyatakov was tried in Moscow for treason, sabotage and other alleged crimes against ...
Understanding the ‘runner’s high’: How exercising creates a natural marijuana-like euphoria
Many people have experienced reductions in stress, pain and anxiety and sometimes even euphoria after exercise. What’s behind this so-called ...
Viewpoint: ‘Sovietizing’ Western science? Conflating STEM research with fashionable ideologies raises Orwellian concerns
Earlier this year, I (Anna) did something that my friends feared I would come to regret: I publicly spoke out ...
Let food be thy medicine: How GMO tomatoes could help Parkinson’s patients
An apple a day might keep the doctor away, but soon the garden’s preventative prescription for 60 thousand Americans might ...
5 human species that played a role in our evolutionary history
We’re so used to the idea of being the only people around that it seems outlandish to think that not ...
Viewpoint: What drives agricultural sustainability? Not what many ‘environmental organizations’ promote
Anyone who has flown over the Canadian prairies in any of the previous summers will notice the tremendous number of ...
COVID spurred a slew of junk science. Here are the top 6 coronavirus related stories of 2021
Just as it did last year, the most dangerous pandemic in a century spawned all sorts of junk science in ...
Viewpoint: Science is now perceived as less about evidence and more about political and ideological tribal identification — and it’s corrupted the left and the right
Over the past 18 months, a number of significant events have occurred that were interpreted through two entirely different worldviews: ...
Are rapid-result antigen tests an unappreciated long-range tool to tame COVID?
An overwhelming consensus on any topic is very rare these days. But many Americans, whatever their political leanings, seem to ...
A lucky segment of the population is genetically immune to the COVID virus. What can we learn from them?
In March 2020, Eleanor A. had been sick for several days. Thinking it might be the new respiratory illness going ...
A shortage of healthful omega-3 fatty acid from fish looms as the global climate heats up. Here is a plant-based biotechnology solution
Consumption of fish and other seafood has played a pivotal role in human history as a nourishing protein. This warrants ...
What did ancient humans eat?
Unearthed from the graves of children, ceramic baby bottles from thousands of years ago would look perfectly at home in ...
‘Silent Earth’ raises false alarm about non-existent ‘insect apocalypse’
If you keep up with the news in the mainstream media, you might think it’s time to ditch the flyswatter ...
