Liza Lockwood

To hear RFK, Jr. talk about medical school, you may think doctors enter health care oblivious to basic facts about ...

The greater the media hype around psychedelics, the more skeptical you should be. A perfect example of why this skepticism ...

The harder the government cracks down on a drug, the more deadly its illicit replacement that emerges from the black ...

It's a charge many scientists face: they post a factual tweet refuting common misinfo about vaccines, pesticides or some other ...

Spearheaded by the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Norman Borlaug, the Green Revolution dramatically boosted food production in the middle of the ...

Panic erupted in Florida earlier this month after surgeon general Dr. Joseph Ladapo held a press conference launching the state's ...

The insecticide DDT has prevented roughly half a billion deaths. A relatively low-toxic chemistry widely used to control disease-vectoring mosquitoes ...

Depending on whom you ask, the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans represent a significant step forward for public health—or they're ...

There's a dangerous mismatch between our biology and the tech-saturated world we inhabit—and it might be killing us. That's the ...

Widely used as a battlefield anesthetic in the later stages of the Vietnam War, ketamine has emerged as a key ...

For 70 years, a persistent minority of academics and activists has claimed that fluoridated drinking water poses a serious but ...

The science is settled: biological sex is not a spectrum but a binary, and the evidence is undeniable to anyone ...

RFK, Jr.'s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) coalition has built its platform on the concept of health freedom, a belief ...

The science community faces an existential crisis as thousands of studies are retracted and dozens of peer-reviewed journals are forced ...

The story most people know about America's opioid epidemic, a public health crisis claiming over 1 million lives since 1999, ...

Buoyed by sensationalist reporters eager to write alarming headlines, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has repeatedly hyped a dramatic "epidemic" of ...

How far are we willing to go to slow climate change? The list of proposed solutions runs the gamut from ...

A few months ago, a law firm emailed one of us (Cameron) asking for help promoting their litigation against baby ...

Many scientists treat the anti-vaccine movement as a collection of lepers—a group of malcontents to be ignored and ostracized in ...

The number of Americans suffering from depression continues to follow an alarming trend. In 2023, roughly 47 million people reported ...

If you could select the traits your children would have before they were born, would you do it? Once a ...

Endless social media feeds, 24-hour news cycles, and AI-driven search engines have empowered us to curate the content we consume ...

Red meat is often scapegoated as a major villain in the popular story about our global efforts to prevent a ...

Iconoclastic Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has once again roiled the science community, cancelling $500 million ...

As an increasing number of US states begin to liberalize their drug laws, allowing recreational use of marijuana and even ...

Five years after COVID-19 began to turn the world upside down, controversy continues to rage around the life-saving mRNA vaccines ...