Christie Aschwanden
Maybe Vitamin D isn’t such the ‘miracle supplement as the hype—and many scientists—have long claimed
For a while vitamin D was looking like a bona fide health elixir. It was recognized a century ago as ...
46,000 people and counting: How COVID has impacted the study of human behavior
During the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, Jay Van Bavel, a psychologist at New York University, wanted to identify ...
5 reasons why we might never reach COVID herd immunity
Long-term prospects for the pandemic probably include COVID-19 becoming an endemic disease, much like influenza. But in the near term, ...
Viewpoint: ‘Untold human death and suffering’: What could be the impact of the Trump administration plan to reach herd immunity
“Surrendering to the virus” is not a defensible plan, says Kristian Andersen, an immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in ...
‘Failures aren’t for lack of trying’: The quest to find a drug for Alzheimer’s
In February, pharmaceutical companies Roche and Eli Lilly announced that two experimental drugs they had developed for Alzheimer’s disease had ...
Rise of perfectionism and its toll on our mental health
Once an issue that affected a select few, perfectionism is now a growing cultural phenomenon, fueled by modern parenting and ...
Why almost all psychologists are ideologically liberal, and why it matters
When New York University psychologist Jonathan Haidt asked about a thousand attendees at the annual meeting of the Society for ...
Viewpoint: Consumers gain little from 23andMe’s screening for BRCA cancer genes
This month [March], the FDA granted the genetics company 23andMe permission to offer direct-to-consumer testing for three of the more than 1,000 ...
‘Sham surgeries’: Placebo effect could be harnessed for good
Seen through different eyes, the process of modern surgery may look more more spiritual than scientific, said orthopedic surgeon Stuart Green, ...
New England Journal of Medicine: Mammogram screenings has led to surge in unnecessary surgeries
A study published ... by the The New England Journal of Medicine added to a growing body of evidence that ...
Sex testing should not be designed to suppress Caster Semenya’s born talent
[Caster] Semenya’s case is the latest saga in sport’s checkered history of sex testing, a task that is purportedly aimed ...
Is psychology’s reproducibility problem a setback, or part of scientific process?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. As science grapples with ...
Proving Zika link to microcephaly will take a lot more research
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. For weeks, Zika virus ...
Why studies linking diet to health are almost always flawed.
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Whatever you’re worried about, ...
Confused when you should get a mammogram? Here’s why
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. If you’re a woman ...
Why your convictions probably aren’t as strong as you think they are
Paul Offit likes to tell a story about how his wife, pediatrician Bonnie Offit, was about to give a child ...
Is there a scientific basis to the paleo diet?
The problem with modern diets is that they rely too heavily on modern, processed foods. If only we emulated the ...