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‘Not sufficient evidence’: RFK, Jr. now rejects his claim that Tylenol is linked to autism, one day after Texas claimed it in a lawsuit - Genetic Literacy Project

63% of Americans drink fluoridated water. Here’s a science breakdown of its benefits and hazards - Genetic Literacy Project

Viewpoint: RFK, Jr.’s ‘batshit crazy health conspiracy theories’ - Genetic Literacy Project

Viewpoint: Tylenol and the pseudoscience litigation playbook: Here’s how tort lawyer RFK, Jr. consorts with ambulance-chasing lawyers to shake-down companies making a safe and necessary product - Genetic Literacy Project

Trump’s EPA will stop collecting emissions data from most polluting companies - Genetic Literacy Project

Is sunscreen bad for your health? MAHA and social media disinformation threatens a resurgence in skin cancer - Genetic Literacy Project

Mazzenga’s 20-year old muscles: How a still-going-strong 92-year old sprinter wins every race she enters - Genetic Literacy Project

Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent

Sophie's Choice: ‘My 29-year old daughter’s AI bot helped her write her suicide note’—but didnt alert anyone about her deteriorating mental health. Can we program intervention?

10 years ago, the hazard agency IARC called glyphosate a ‘likely carcinogen’. It weaponized chemophobia, corrupted environmental groups and ignited a tort bonanza

‘Feel Free’: People getting addicted to this addictive ‘botanical’ supplement drink with kava root and kratom, and regulators are doing nothing

Rfk, Jr. guts U.S. support for mRNA vaccines that target bird flu, human flu and coronaviruses, falsely claiming they are dangerous despite decades of safe use

Why cutting out synthetic pesticides will reduce food production and won't help the environment

Commemoration or Condemnation? Memory, morality, and the meaning of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

'Three parent baby' medical first:  Male sperm and eggs from two women combined to create an embryo free from inherited mitochondrial disease

GLP podcast: Politics over science. Why food safety debates are driven by ideology

Video: Nuclear energy will destroy us? Global warming is an existential threat? Chemicals are massacring bees? Donate to the Green Industrial Complex!

Is the American Academy of Pediatrics a stalwart defender of science and vaccines or a biotechnology science rejectionist? Sadly, it’s both

GLP podcast: Has MAHA made vaccine denial a right-wing cause?

Viewpoint: Environmental Working Group’s Dirty Dozen is out. It’s a ‘heaping pile of disinformation'

GLP podcast: Science journalism is a mess. Here's how to fix it

Viewpoint: RFK, Jr. wrongly demonizes the safe and effective HPV vaccine Gardasil

GLP podcast: Marijuana legalization—smart policy or risk to public health?

Viewpoint: Toxic chemicals in tampons? Unpacking the latest enviornmental activist group hysteria claim

Infographic: Global regulatory and health research agencies on whether glyphosate causes cancer

GLP podcast: Activist—tort lawyer—media coalition targets medical equipment devices made with safe PFAS, risking millions of lives

Viewpoint: PFAS—Fluoropolymer panic shows how the activist-tort lawyer-media complex threatens a lifesaving medical technology

GLP podcast: 'It wasn't a total train wreck.' Breaking down the MAHA Commission Report

Gametes? Embryo? Fetus? There are 17 timepoints when a human life might begin

GLP podcast: It's time to end the bipartisan war on science and medicine

GLP podcast: Harmless snake venom, deadly water? The paradox of "toxic" chemicals with Dr. Kevin Folta

Disrupt the global food supply? Trump officials dubious about RFK, Jr.—MAHA plan to ban crop chemicals

GLP podcast: 'Industrial' food is very nutritious; Porn might be harmful; Love of music is (partially) in your genes

What impact will the global trade war and RFK, Jr.’s MAHA agenda have on European farming, health and the U.S. science brain drain?

GLP podcast: Common sense 'out the window.' Whistleblower Jamie Reed challenges safety, efficacy of 'gender-affirming care'

Viewpoint: Food dyes? Herbicides? Vaccines? … Water? Yes, they are all toxic depending upon the circumstances so beware of scare claims

GLP podcast: 'Big Pharma' owns the FDA? Challenging a cherished MAHA myth

’This kind of hype is toxic': Dissecting exaggerated claims by Colossal Sciences that it resurrected a dire wolf and the bungled reporting that followed

Podcast: The Anti-Vax Movement’s Dangerous Rhetoric About Autism

Viewpoint: ‘Only in California could coffee both cause and prevent cancer’

16.4 million ads: Tort law firm suits targeting cutting edge technologies like genetically modified crops and chemicals surged more than 260% in the last 8 years with glyphosate at the top of the list

Viewpoint: Kill Prop 65—It’s past time to ditch California’s science-twisting and misguided attacks on safe-as-used chemicals

Podcast: Greenpeace USA might go broke; RFK, Jr. & measles vaccine; Marty Makary spells trouble for FDA?

To evaluate non-existent links of vaccines to autism, RFK, Jr. taps activist who faked being a doctor, published "research"—later retracted—claiming a 'vaccine-autism' link and administered ineffective drugs to children to "cure" autism

Pollinators & Pesticides Archives

Podcast: Tort lawyers are destroying US science and medicine

Viewpoint: Attack of the thin mints? Why Moms Across America (MAA) claims of 'dangeous' pesticide residues in Girl Scout Cookies are wrong and insidious

Girl Scout 25-cookie “study” by crack science organization Moms Across America alleging ‘dangerous’ level of pesticide residues sparks class action tort case

Glyphosate, conspiracy and Scientology: Church's messy relationship with RFK, Jr. raises awkward questions about its influence on US science policy going forward

Podcast: Will Trump let RFK, Jr. ‘go wild on the food’? A farmer forecasts the future of US agriculture

Viewpoint: New Health and Human Services Secretary RFK, Jr. — America's health, food and farming nightmare begins

Is seed oil bad for you? Is tallow oil a healthier replacement?

Podcast: Africa needs ‘regenerative’ farming activists say; Ban menthol cigarettes? Trump wrong to leave WHO?

Viewpoint: New Health and Human Services Secretary RFK, Jr. — America's health, food and farming nightmare begins

Viewpoint: Synthetic chemical methylene blue used to clean fish tanks is the latest quack concoction promoted by Health and Human Sources secretary designate RFK, Jr.

FAIR Webinar: Restoring Public Trust in Health and Science: Will Trump Administration Pledges for Truth & Transparency Be Effective?

Trump pardons ‘drug kingpin’; Downside of ‘do your own research’; IVF clinic swaps embryos

IVF mixup: What’s to be done if your child gets switched with another at birth—and you don’t find out till years later

X Space Feb 7 from 12-2pm ET

The real causes for the 'surge' in austim diagnoses—The facts that RFK. Jr. and other vaccine rejectionists continue to get wrong

Childhood vaccines are under fire. Here’s what you need to know

‘You are a stain on the universe. Please die. Please’: A 14-year old took AI seriously. Who is responsible?

Podcast: When AI goes wrong who’s responsible? ‘Smart’ agriculture fails; Should alcohol have warning labels?

Podcast: Our Food Is Poisoning Us? Here Are the Facts About Red Dye, Pesticides, and Processing

Viewpoint: Every study shows that Red Dye 3 is safe for humans. So why is the U.S. — but not Canada — banning it?

Viewpoint: What is 'Spatula-Gate'? Or how reckless, chemophobic media and environmentalists bungled the science of plastics yet again

Interview: 'Shot in the Arm': Filmmaker Scott Hamilton Kennedy on the Anti-Vaccine Movement’s Tactics

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Viewpoint: Does peanut oil in vaccines cause an allergy to peanuts? That’s the latest RFK, Jr. health claim and like most others he’s wrong

Processed Food Doesn't Speed Up Aging; Ozempic for Addiction?; Junk Science in Journals

Here's a primer on the technology behind lab-grown meat

Why One Physician Left Medicine to Work for ‘Big Ag’

Why Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. would be catastrophic for science and America's health

RFK Jr Provably False Claims - NewsGuard

Plastic waste as food? Microorganisms may one day be able to feed a growing world population

Are Seed Oils Really Harmful? Breaking Down the Science

The Future of Farming: Organic vs. Intensive Agriculture

Debunking GMO Myths: No, GMOs aren’t causing cancer. Yes, Non-GMO labeling is a scam

States Target Lab-Grown Meat; Alt-Health in Trump Admin; Psilocybin Superior to Antidepressants?

These people deliberately exposed themselves to COVID to figure out why some people are naturally immune. Here’s what we learned

Viewpoint: If you want to understand how pervasive medical disinformation in the U.S. is, check out this circus organized by GOP Senator Ron Johnson