Cameron English
Baby food panic, brought to you by trial lawyers hoping to prosecute by press release
Last week, I received an email from a law firm asking ACSH to promote its groundless allegations about the dangers ...
GLP spaces on X: Psychedelics—groundbreaking depression therapies or dangerous drugs?
The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...
GLP podcast: Making babies in the lab? The messy ethics of embryo selection
If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...
GLP spaces on X: Do Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs promote ‘fat phobia’ as some fat activists claim?
Obesity may have finally found its match in Ozempic and other GLP-1 drugs that are helping many millions of people ...
GLP podcast: ‘Hyperreality.’ How the digital world severs our connection to truth
Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...
GLP spaces on X: ‘Designer baby’ revolution is coming. Are we ready?
The day is rapidly approaching when many people will reproduce in the lab instead of the bedroom. Rather than pairing ...
GLP spaces on X: Climate change and meat. Separating fact from hype
Red meat is often scapegoated as a major villain in the popular story about our global efforts to prevent a ...
GLP podcast: Deadly mistake? RFK, Jr. guts mRNA vaccine research
Iconoclastic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again roiled the science community, cancelling $500 million ...
Viewpoint: California’s science-challenged Proposition 65 toxic chemical regulation are at center of ‘tort shakedown’ racket
Not to0 many years ago, my wife and I once elebrated our anniversary in South Lake Tahoe, situated on the ...
GLP podcast: Legalize all drugs? Here’s an ER doctor’s perspective
As an increasing number of US states begin to liberalize their drug laws, allowing recreational use of marijuana and even ...
GLP podcast: COVID shots in 2025. Who needs a booster and why?
Five years after COVID-19 began to turn the world upside down, controversy continues to rage around the life-saving mRNA vaccines ...
GLP podcast: Questionable COVID response fueled the MAHA movement. How should scientists respond?
One of the many troubling consequences of the COVID pandemic has been a resurgent anti-vaccine movement, brought to unprecedented prominence ...
GLP Spaces on X: Misinfo from the mainstream. Hypocritical pediatricians blast RFK Jr.’s anti-vaxx stance while flouting consensus on GMOs
You can't be a stalwart defender of scientific consensus, expertise and evidence-based medicine while taking contrarian positions on critical public ...
GLP podcast: Politics over science. Why food safety debates are driven by ideology
America's ferocious battles over food safety and nutrition are often driven by politics and other ideological considerations rather than cold, ...
GLP spaces on X: The ‘Dirty Dozen,’ dissected
Each year the Environmental Working Group's (EWG) "Dirty Dozen" list ranks fruits and vegetables with the supposedly highest pesticide residues, ...
GLP podcast: Has MAHA made vaccine denial a right-wing cause?
The ongoing measles outbreak in the U.S. has fueled intense speculation about how politics influences vaccine hesitancy. With over 1,200 ...
GLP Spaces on X: Will MAHA harm or help US health care?
The MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) movement has big plans. "We are leading the charge to transform America’s approach to ...
GLP podcast: Science journalism is a mess. Here’s how to fix it
Science journalism is in disarray as reporters pollute their coverage with politics, promote conspiracy theories, and bungle basic scientific facts—undermining ...
GLP Spaces on X: Refuting MAHA’s anti-pesticide mythology
There's a little-known fact the MAHA coalition would prefer to keep quiet: pesticides are essential to protect public health and ...
GLP podcast: Science of reproduction—what does evolution tell us about the ‘sex spectrum’?
Over the last decade, a growing chorus of scientists has declared that biological sex is not binary. Properly assessing human ...
GLP spaces on X: Ice cream sales boost drowning risk? Confusing correlation and causation yields strange – and often harmful – results
Ice cream sales and drownings increase significantly during summer. Although these two outcomes are closely connected, they probably occur in ...
GLP podcast: Marijuana legalization—smart policy or risk to public health?
With a growing number of US states legalizing marijuana use, scientists and policymakers are once again engaged in a pitched ...
GLP spaces on X: Bioweapons on the farm? Bad agriculture policy could be as harmful as bioterrorism
Earlier this month, two Chinese nationals were charged with smuggling Fusarium graminearum, a toxic fungus that infects important food crops, ...
GLP podcast: Activist—tort lawyer—media coalition targets medical equipment devices made with safe PFAS, risking millions of lives
There's a growing panic over per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), most recently targeting fluoropolymers used in medical devices. The issue ...
GLP Spaces on X: Prescribing with precision—antidepressants without overmedicalization?
There's a ditch on both sides of the road, as the old saying goes, when it comes to antidepressants. While ...
GLP podcast: ‘It wasn’t a total train wreck.’ Breaking down the MAHA Commission Report
It wasn't a total train wreck. That's the best way to summarize the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission's May ...
GLP podcast: Should doctors go to jail for prescribing opioids?
In the late 1990s, America began to see a dramatic uptick in the misuse of prescription opioids. Fueled by unethical ...
GLP spaces on X: Pesticides cause Parkinson’s? Another scandalous chemical claim misses the mark
Like so many other chemical scare stories, the claim that pesticides cause Parkinson’s disease (PD) has circulated online for years, ...