Viewpoint: No, regenerative agriculture—whatever that means—is no better for the planet or your health than conventional farming that uses pesticides judiciously

Viewpoint: No, regenerative agriculture—whatever that means—is no better for the planet or your health than conventional farming that uses pesticides judiciously

Orange County Register |
Americans have been subjected to a decades-long misinformation campaign about agriculture. Instead of the truth—conventional farmers grow ever-increasing amounts of ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: 'Regenerative farming'? RFK Jr.’s federal push romanticizes the past and risks food security

Facts & Fallacies podcast: ‘Regenerative farming’? RFK Jr.’s federal push romanticizes the past and risks food security

Science Literacy Project |
An ambitious federal effort is pouring some $700 million into scaling “regenerative” agriculture, framed by Health and Human Services Secretary ...
Viewpoint—Synthetic influencers and ‘deep fake’ doctors: How AI generates fake experts

Viewpoint—Synthetic influencers and ‘deep fake’ doctors: How AI generates fake experts

Genetic Literacy Project |
Artificial intelligence is transforming how millions of Americans get health advice, flooding platforms like YouTube and TikTok with slick, on-demand ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: 'Zombie apocalypse'? Cities move toward drug legalization, flirt with disaster

Facts & Fallacies podcast: ‘Zombie apocalypse’? Cities move toward drug legalization, flirt with disaster

Science Literacy Project |
An ambitious cohort of cities across the US and Canada has moved ever closer to legalizing drug use—with tragic results ...
Viewpoint—A hard look at the Fauci diaries: Do they change what we know about COVID’s origins?

Viewpoint—A hard look at the Fauci diaries: Do they change what we know about COVID’s origins?

Genetic Literacy Project |
Recently released diaries of Dr. Anthony Fauci reveal significant gaps between what senior scientists and officials said privately about COVID-19 ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Organic food myths make a comeback on Instagram, with Dr. Kevin Folta

Facts & Fallacies podcast: Organic food myths make a comeback on Instagram, with Dr. Kevin Folta

Science Literacy Project |
Long-debunked myths about organic farming and food safety are surging again on social media, fueled by selective studies and fear-driven ...
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Facts & Fallacies podcast: Organic food cuts pesticide exposure? A response to Dr. Rhonda Patrick

Science Literacy Project |
Even credentialed scientists are susceptible to the pressures of social media virality, sometimes venturing well beyond their expertise to promote ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Europe's AC debacle underscores fatal flaw in green activism

Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Europe’s AC debacle underscores fatal flaw in green activism

Science Literacy Project |
Is Europe’s ideological aversion to air conditioning quietly killing thousands of people? A surprising body of evidence suggests that the ...
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Facts & Fallacies podcast: The ‘woke’ crusade against anthropology? Dr. Elizabeth Weiss

Genetic Literacy Project |
Museums are now reburying both 12,000-year-old human skeletons and presenting creation myths as factual history—while critical research on the first ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Legalized weed drives drug addiction, psychosis?

Facts & Fallacies podcast: Legalized weed drives drug addiction, psychosis?

Science Literacy Project |
Drug legalization is supposed to spur several critical improvements in public health. As more states legalize recreational marijuana, we're beginning ...
Facts & Fallacies podcast: Psychedelics for PTSD? Examining RFK, Jr's claims about ibogaine

Facts & Fallacies podcast: Psychedelics for PTSD? Examining RFK, Jr’s claims about ibogaine

Genetic Literacy Project |
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has joined the chorus of psychedelic advocates who claim the drugs could revolutionize mental health care, ...
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Facts & Fallacies Podcast: The truth about vitamin K shots

Science Literacy Project |
Social media has been awash in panic as one influencer after another wrongly warns prospective parents against the routine (and ...
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Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Right-wing politics bad for your health? Separating speculation from science

Genetic Literacy Project |
Politics has infiltrated every facet of modern life, including medicine. And some Americans seem increasingly inclined to make important health ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Nicotine vaping—public health miracle, or risk to children? Professor Cliff Douglas

Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Nicotine vaping—public health miracle, or risk to children? Professor Cliff Douglas

Genetic Literacy Project |
E-cigarettes burst onto the scene nearly 20 years, disrupting the cigarette industry and leaving anti-smoking advocates uncertain about how to ...
Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Limit free speech to blunt social media misinfo?

Facts & Fallacies Podcast: Limit free speech to blunt social media misinfo?

Genetic Literacy Project |
Information, much of it false, spreads at lightning speed in today’s digital age. The problem is more troubling than it ...
GLP podcast: Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food—health harming industries or life-saving innovators?

GLP podcast: Big Pharma, Big Ag, Big Food—health harming industries or life-saving innovators?

Genetic Literacy Project |
Fossil fuels, pesticides and food processing have dramatically improved living standards around the globe. This may be a controversial claim, ...
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GLP podcast: ‘Safe injection sites’: enabling drug addiction or saving lives?

With illicit opioids still killing thousands of Americans each year, some public health advocates are pushing a radical solution to ...
GLP podcast: What's wrong with 'doomsday' environmentalism? It's false.

GLP podcast: What’s wrong with ‘doomsday’ environmentalism? It’s false.

Genetic Literacy Project |
Ever notice how the environmental movement’s doomsday predictions arrive like clockwork, each one as urgent as the last? Mass starvation, ...
Doctors needs nutrition classes? A physician unmasks another MAHA myth

Doctors needs nutrition classes? A physician unmasks another MAHA myth

Genetic Literacy Project |
To hear RFK, Jr. talk about medical school, you may think doctors enter health care oblivious to basic facts about ...
Ancient African shrub ibogaine causes psychedelic hallucinations — and can reduce anxiety, depression, and PTSD. Why is it restricted in the US?

GLP podcast: Miracle drug? Tech bros inflate depression-fighting effects of psychedelic 5-MeO-DMT

Genetic Literacy Project |
The greater the media hype around psychedelics, the more skeptical you should be. A perfect example of why this skepticism ...
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GLP podcast: Overdose crisis—Illicit opioids spread like drug-resistant bacteria?

Genetic Literacy Project |
The harder the government cracks down on a drug, the more deadly its illicit replacement that emerges from the black ...
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GLP podcast: Does industry funding corrupt science? The ‘shill gambit,’ debunked

Genetic Literacy Project |
It's a charge many scientists face: they post a factual tweet refuting common misinfo about vaccines, pesticides or some other ...
GLP podcast: How the Green Revolution saved the world $83 trillion

GLP podcast: How the Green Revolution saved the world $83 trillion

Science Literacy Project |
Spearheaded by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, the Green Revolution dramatically boosted food production in the middle of the ...
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GLP spaces on X: Florida’s anti-glyphosate hysteria, dissected

Genetic Literacy Project |
Panic erupted in Florida earlier this month after surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo held a press conference launching the state's ...
GLP podcast: In defense of DDT—the pesticide that saved half a billion lives

GLP podcast: In defense of DDT—the pesticide that saved half a billion lives

Genetic Literacy Project |
The insecticide DDT has prevented roughly half a billion deaths. A relatively low-toxic chemistry widely used to control disease-vectoring mosquitoes ...
GLP podcast: Everybody's wrong about RFK, Jr.'s dietary guidelines

GLP podcast: Everybody’s wrong about RFK, Jr.’s dietary guidelines

Genetic Literacy Project |
Depending on whom you ask, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent a significant step forward for public health—or they're ...
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GLP podcast: Evolutionary mismatch. Is civilization wrecking our health?

Genetic Literacy Project |
There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...
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GLP podcast: Ketamine—miracle depression treatment, or recreational nightmare?

Genetic Literacy Project |
Widely used as a battlefield anesthetic in the later stages of the Vietnam War, ketamine has emerged as a key ...