Henry Miller
Cracking the brain’s code: Breakthrough tools could transform treatment for Parkinson’s, ALS, and Huntington’s
The brain isn’t a uniform slab of gray matter — it’s a remarkably intricate landscape made up of thousands of ...
Commemoration or Condemnation? Memory, morality, and the meaning of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
August 6 is one of the most consequential anniversaries for Americans, our World War II allies, and Japan—each for different ...
Science and the courts need to better distinguish between correlations and causation
Correctly distinguishing between correlation and causation is critical because it influences how treatments for illnesses are devised and tested. Also, ...
Prescription roulette personalized medicine: How genetic testing could eliminate many drug side effects
For millions of Americans, taking medication is a routine and necessary part of maintaining health, but if you’ve watched drug ...
‘Wellness’ grifters’ pseudoscience imperils public health
In recent years, the $6.3 trillion global “wellness” industry has marketed itself as a liberating alternative to conventional medicine, promising ...
Bird flu? Don’t worry, we fired the scientists
The Trump administration’s recent decision to cancel $766 million in funding to vaccine company Moderna for the development of a ...
Viewpoint: ‘We need to fend off the sophistry and mendacity of anti-innovation, anti-biotechnology, chemophobic activists’
The adage “Follow the science” when formulating public policy has much to recommend it, but it’s not as straightforward as ...
Challenging the ‘multi-billion dollar fear-and-smear campaign against genetically-engineered crops’
Because most of society is between two and six generations removed from farming, to many people that subject is largely ...
Can Africa’s indigenous ‘orphan crops’ play a meaningful role in improving the continent’s food security?
In 2021, the small village of Kanaani in eastern Kenya faced a devastating drought. For months, rain was scarce, leaving ...
Viewpoint: Health danger zone: The political and cultural rise of functional medicine and wellness grifters
From the anti-vaccine movement and COVID denialism to the promotion of raw pet food, the wellness-industrial complex has repeatedly shown ...
Cracking cancer’s code: How science is weaponizing our immune system to target aggressive brain tumors
When Senator John McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma in 2017, it brought sudden national attention to a cancer few had ...
Viewpoint: Gutting the FDA—What’s at stake for public health
Recent reorganizations and "reductions in force" at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have damaged the very backbone of our ...
X, Y, sex and gender: When genetics pulls a fast one
The spectrum of information that can be obtained by prenatal testing is wide and rapidly increasing. Many mutations, or "abnormalities," ...
Challenging fears and misconceptions about crop biotechnology is a challenge in an era of disinformation
My friend Kevin Folta, professor of horticultural sciences at the University of Florida, recently tweeted: ...
Silicon Freud: Can AI replace the couch?
Psychiatry was one of my early rotations as a third-year medical student just beginning clinical training. After years of exposure ...
Varroa mites, not pesticides, are by far the largest threat to honeybee health. Developing RNAi technology shows promise in addressing that crisis
Pictures of honeybees show up in prehistoric cave paintings, one stretching back 8,000 years ago in Spain. The ancient Egyptians were ...
Viewpoint: The FDA under Trump 2.0, Marty Makary and RFK, Jr.: Uncertainty threatens
What would the Food and Drug Administration look like under Martin "Marty" Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, President Trump's soon-to-be ...
Viewpoint: After an unexpected and controversial federal ruling, the regulatory future of gene edited crops in the US is cloudy
The use of molecular techniques to create genetically engineered (GE) crops has now become trapped in the over-regulation of a ...
CIA’s cautious (and dubious) embrace of COVID-19 lab leak theory is likely to spur more controversy, not end it
The calamitous global outbreak of COVID-19 has sparked intense scrutiny of its origins. One school of thought holds that the ...
Viewpoint: DEI is infecting America’s science and medical establishment
Dr. H. Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science since 2019, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during [a] ...
The science behind water fluoridation: What is hysteria, what fears are justified?
Water fluoridation is supported by a robust body of evidence. Numerous epidemiological studies have demonstrated significant reductions in cavities in ...
How close are we to the avian flu outbreak escalating into a pandemic?
After at least documented 66 cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount -- the ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s health and science cabinet nominees: What a disaster
Evidence-based government policymaking should not be politicized but should strive to promote progress and benefit all Americans. Unfortunately, the expertise ...
In a parallel universe, here are qualified scientists president-elect Trump would have nominated for top science agencies
As the United States prepared for a new presidential administration, Nautilus, and the Aspen Institute asked eminent scientists from across ...
The ridiculous, endless, tedious mask debate (Believe scientists, not pundits or ideologues)
The folks at the City Journal must not be aware of the quip, “When you’re in a hole, stop digging.” They ...
Viewpoint: Promotion of social science drivel by Science magazine editor-in-chief Holden Thorp undermines the credibility of his preeminent journal
Holden Thorp, the editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Science, described on Substack a discussion that occurred during the recent meeting of the American Association ...
Viewpoint: Fears grow that the biotechnology revolution could pass the United States by. What can be done?
Eric Schmidt, a commissioner on the federal National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology and formerly the CEO and Chairman of ...
Part II: How bureaucratic infighting and dairy industry lobbying have undermined the federal response to the H5N1 bird flu outbreak
In early 2023, as news of H5N1 avian influenza (“bird flu”) spreading among dairy cows reached the White House, the ...
