Daniel Engber
Obesity rates in America are plateauing but skepticism remains that it is a sustainable trend
According to the CDC, as of August 2023, 40.3 percent of U.S. adults—some 100 million people—met the clinical definition for ...
Scientists losing uphill battle to prevent measles spread
Measles seems poised to make a comeback in America. Two adults and two children staying at a migrant shelter in ...
Lab leak vs wet market: Navigating the odds of competing COVID origin theories
Those inclined to think... that the pandemic must have started from a traded wild animal share a fundamental intuition with ...
Accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s obsession with scientists: ‘He collects beautiful minds’
As the New York Times reported [July 31], [Jeffrey] Epstein’s “passion for cutting-edge science” at times verged into eugenics. Multiple ...
‘The numbers’ tell us that anti-vaxxers may not be to blame for recent measles outbreaks
On June 5, the number of measles cases in the U.S. this year passed 1,000, a milestone the country last ...
Spermageddon? Diving sperm counts say more about male anxiety than male fertility
There was something wrong, very wrong, with Israeli testicles. A few years ago, an army major named Hagai Levine began ...
Cancer research not exempt from science’s reproducibility problem
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. The U.S. government spends ...
Why GMO labels should be voluntary like Kosher labels
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. . . . .If ...
Slate guts scare-mongering doc ‘That Sugar Film’ featured uncritically by NY Times
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. One of the most ...
Personal genomics and accidental paternity tests
What happens when your 23andMe results reveal that your brother is your uncle and your father isn't your father? ...