Michael Hiltzik
Book review: ‘Maelstrom of abuse’ — Anthony Fauci’s ‘On Call’ details fight against agents of disinformation
Dr. Anthony Fauci has been accused by congressional crackpots and now testifies before a Senate committee about baseless attacks on ...
Long-awaited National Intelligence report on COVID origins rejects China lab leak theory, sparking outrage among Wuhan skeptics and conspiracists
A new U.S. government report debunks the theory that the virus leaked from the Chinese lab ...
Anti-vaxxers based their rejectionism on a study claiming COVID shots caused excessive deaths. Now it’s been retracted
Doubts about scientific papers related to COVID-19 have been rife during the pandemic. The database of retractions of COVID studies ...
Will complicated science, ‘rising anti-business sentiment’ cripple Bayer’s glyphosate defense?
The epic $2.055-billion jury verdict against Monsanto over accusations that its blockbuster weed killer Roundup causes cancer is just one ...
Challenging Nature’s decision to run a stem cell advertisement portrayed as research
Readers of Nature, one of the world’s most important scientific journals, might have been struck recently by an audacious claim ...
Viewpoint: Monsanto is no victim, but Roundup-cancer verdict isn’t backed by science
At the outset, let’s stipulate — as the lawyers might say — that the chemical giant Monsanto is not well ...
Should there be limits on FOIA requests used to harass scientists?
The GLP aggregated and excerpted this blog/article to reflect the diversity of news, opinion and analysis. Both the GMO and ...
Toronto Star’s take on vaccines ignores science, spreads irrational fear
The Toronto Star, Canada's highest-circulation daily newspaper, has built a reputation for excellent investigative reporting, including justly celebrated exposes of Toronto Mayor ...
Small California stem cell research brings riches by tapping into to state funds
StemCells Inc. has had rather a charmed relationship with California's publicly funded stem cell program, with some $40 million in ...
Junk science used to promote Proposition 37
Even if the California ballot measure mandating the labeling of genetically modified food measure goes down, the campaign on behalf ...
Prop. 37: Another example of the perils of the initiative process?
Love it or hate it, the one thing you can say for sure about California's ballot initiative process is that ...