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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, ...
GLP podcast: It’s time to end the bipartisan war on science and medicine
Today's science disinformation ecosystem is sustained by a truly strange coalition of MAGA conservatives and liberal “wellness warriors” who have ...
GLP podcast: Harmless snake venom, deadly water? The paradox of “toxic” chemicals with Dr. Kevin Folta
An untreated rattlesnake bite can kill you, yet drinking the same dose of venom is generally harmless, courtesy of the ...
GLP spaces on X: Sugar ‘addiction’—sound science or public health mythology?
Can't say no to sugary soda? Does that pint of ice cream demand you eat every last spoonful of its ...
GLP podcast: ‘Industrial’ food is very nutritious; Porn might be harmful; Love of music is (partially) in your genes
This week on Facts and Fallacies, a farmer and plant geneticist refutes activist claims that modern agriculture drastically reduces nutrient ...
GLP Spaces on X: End public science funding—sensible policy or sheer madness?
Is it time to eliminate public funding for scientific research? It's an undeniably radical proposal, but one supporters say is ...
GLP podcast: Common sense ‘out the window.’ Whistleblower Jamie Reed challenges safety, efficacy of ‘gender-affirming care’
We've all heard the claims about gender-affirming care. The effects of puberty blockers are reversible; most experts agree that medically ...
GLP spaces on X: Graying Lady—How the New York Times and other outlets lost America’s trust
The public's faith in journalism has cratered over the last two decades. "Americans continue to register record-low trust in the ...
GLP podcast: NPR’s chemophobic hypocrisy; Could MAGA stifle mRNA vaccine progress? AI could shift human evolution
After years of flogging one chemical scare after another, NPR has abruptly changed its tune, defending Girl Scout cookies against ...
GLP spaces on X: How California’s Prop. 65 wreaks havoc on US science and industry
Sold to well-meaning California voters in 1986 as a means of protecting public health, Proposition 65 has undermined American science ...
GLP podcast: ‘Big Pharma’ owns the FDA? Challenging a cherished MAHA myth
It's a widely believed myth spread by wellness gurus, Hollywood stars, politicians and even many scientists: the pharmaceutical industry "owns" ...
GLP podcast with Cam and Liza: Stigmatizing autism—the anti-vaccine movement’s hysteria devalues the lives of the vulnerable and the marginalized
For nearly three decades, the anti-vaccine movement has perpetuated a dangerous, science-free narrative linking vaccines to autism. Not only has ...
GLP Spaces on X: Lab leak or wet market—How government officials and the media bungled the truth about the origins of SARS-CoV-2
More than five years after COVID-19 began its global rampage, the origins of the pandemic remain uncertain. An ongoing debate ...
GLP podcast: Greenpeace USA might go broke; RFK, Jr. fibs about measles vaccine; Marty Makary spells trouble for FDA?
Greenpeace USA just lost a $667 million defamation lawsuit over pipeline protests that might sink the infamous NGO for good ...
GLP Spaces on X: Deadly Thin Mints? $5 million chemical tort scam targets Girl Scout cookies
Tired of chasing ambulances and suing chemical companies, tort lawyers have identified a new villain: the Girl Scouts. You may ...
GLP podcast: DEI-addicted medical schools are jeopardizing health care—Dr. Nikki Johnson
Doctors are leaving medical school ill-equipped to do their jobs and patients–especially the poorest among us–are receiving inferior care that ...
