Andrea Love
Viewpoint: Wellness pseudoscience activists are rewriting U.S. health policy
For decades, wellness misinformation lived in a space that was evidence-adjacent and problematic, but containable: the “outspoken minority” spreading lies ...
Viewpoint: Organic proponents are wellness vaccine-skeptic grifters but with better branding
The organic industry is a multi-billion dollar cash cow (get it—I love a good pun) that is based on zero ...
Viewpoint: In trying to link aluminum in vaccines to autism, RFK, Jr. unsurprisingly again bungles the science
RFK Jr is a liar. Full stop. He has been for decades — it’s what has led to his profitable ...
Viewpoint—Chemophobia: The alliance of environmental activists and lawyers
From tampons to tap water, from cereal boxes to vaccines, nearly every modern health scare rests on the same myth: ...
Viewpoint: Tort lawyer and HHS Secretary RFK, Jr. falsely claim thimerosal—used safely in vaccines for 90 years—contains dangerous mercury
RFK Jr. released a video addressed to the Minamata Convention on Mercury where he lied about vaccines. Again. And again ...
Viewpoint: Tylenol causes autism? Diet Coke brain tumors? Ice cream shark attacks? None of the claims is true—unless you’re an activist or a tort lawyer
Every week, the headlines blare a new health apocalypse: “Diet soda causes depression!” “Tylenol in pregnancy linked to autism!” “Pesticides ...
Consumer Reports is fearmongering (again). No, protein powders don’t contain ‘toxic’ levels of lead
Consumer Reports is at it again, this time, fear-mongering about lead in protein powders. Their latest headline and “report” concludes ...
Viewpoint: The organic food industry is a $180 billion marketing fraud
As a biomedical scientist, it has never failed to annoy me that the term ‘organic’ has been co-opted to spread ...
Viewpoint: Got milk? Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. drinks the raw, unpasteurized version. Does he know something about its benefits that scientists don’t?
Honestly, I can’t believe I need to repeat this in 2025. Raw milk sales have been soaring since early last ...
Viewpoint: Tylenol and the pseudoscience litigation playbook: Here’s how tort lawyer RFK, Jr. consorts with ambulance-chasing lawyers to shake-down companies making a safe and necessary product
Donald Trump held a lengthy press release where he spewed a lot of disinformation and gave dangerous medical advice. He ...
Viewpoint: Why vaccine mandates are critical for public health
Vaccines are one of the most effective and life-saving scientific technologies in modern medicine. They save lives, prevent suffering, and ...
Viewpoint — Fact checking MAHA mythmakers: How wellness influencers undermine American science and health
After RFK Jr’s attack on mRNA vaccine technology research programs last week, I had big plans of multiple articles I ...
Viewpoint: Hollywood’s latest bizarre (un)health fetish: ‘I have Lyme disease!!’
Last week, media outlets were awash with headlines about another celebrity revealing a years-long battle with Lyme disease. Justin Timberlake ...
Viewpoint: MAHA and RFK, Jr. have it backward: Celebrating elimination of safe chemicals while gutting healthcare and food assistance programs
The White House and HHS are congratulating themselves for “major victories for American health.” Their actions are doing the opposite ...
Viewpoint: Activist hypocrisy — It makes no sense to use genetic engineering to treat disease but limit it to grow food sustainably
As a biomedical scientist working in cancer and infectious disease immunology, I’ve spent decades working with genetic tools and genetic ...
Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation’
It’s springtime in the US, which means the Environmental Working Group (EWG) releases their annual Dirty Dozen list, the bane ...
Viewpoint: Wellness influencers (and current federal health officials) fabricate fake ‘root causes’ to sell wellness woo
Another day, another cadre of chiropractors, naturopaths, and wellness influencers undermining scientific research and science-based medicine. But now, it is ...
Viewpoint: Autism epidemic? RFK, Jr. has grifted off of this lie for decades
If you saw the recent HHS Press Briefing by RFK Jr., you’re likely as horrified as I am. RFK Jr ...
Viewpoint: Here’s how the MAGA—liberal ‘wellness warriors’ science disinformation ecosystem works
Tired of seeing evidence get steamrolled by vibes and wellness profiteering? Me too. We are currently living in an era ...
Viewpoint: Food dyes? Herbicides? Vaccines? … Water? Yes, they are all toxic depending upon the circumstances so beware of scare claims
We are back at it with the next edition of Fundamental Elements, a new section of ImmunoLogic. The goal? Break ...
Viewpoint: Flouride bans make no scientific sense. A person would need to consume 357 liters a day of fluoridated water to risk adverse effects
It is exhausting when prominent “science personalities” spread harmful misinformation that erodes literacy and public health. Unfortunately, fluoride, which has ...
Viewpoint: Challenging the ‘appeal to nature’ fallacy — Arsenic is natural, acetaminophen is synthetic, everything is a chemical
We have to start with one of the most fundamentally (pun intended) misunderstood concepts: chemicals. And that’s because a lot of wellness misinformation ...
Viewpoint: Anatomy of junk science—Dissecting yet another attempt by activist scientists to ‘link’ vaccines to autism
A newly published study is being widely circulated, purportedly showing a link between vaccines and autism. A closer look at ...
Viewpoint: “The sheer number of vaccines pumped into kids today is alarming’—Why activist claims are wrong and dangerous
This is not a new refrain, especially for those of us who work in infectious disease biomedical research, but a ...
Viewpoint: Here is why Trump’s announced plan to stop US contributions to the World Health Organization will kill people
I just spent the past 12 hours traveling from Delhi to Kaziranga National Park in Assam, India, and during our ...
RFK Jr. claims to want healthy food, but demonizes the science that makes it possible
It’s been an... interesting couple of weeks, to put it mildly. Donald Trump nominated RFK Jr. as Secretary of the ...
Viewpoint: Here’s why RFK, Jr.’s proposal to backburn infectious disease over chronic disease is bad science and public policy
RFK Jr. is dead wrong about “pausing infectious disease research” to focus on chronic diseases You think I’m joking, right? ...
Viewpoint: A physician who peddles pseudoscience and profits off health disinformation. Perfect Trump pick to oversee Medicare and Medicaid
Mehmet Oz has a net worth of over $100 million because of his career-long grift. Mehmet Oz is the OG ...
