Henry Miller
From ideology to engineering: As green opposition to nuclear energy softens, the debate shifts to what can scale
For years, the country’s major environmental groups stood shoulder to shoulder against nuclear power. That unanimity may be starting to ...
A longer leash on life: The no longer quixotic quest to extend our dogs’ golden years
Dog owners do many things to keep our canine companions happy and healthy, and I’m no exception. I flew from ...
Congress created a mechanism to address rare vaccine injuries. RFK, Jr. is poised to tear it apart
For nearly four decades, Americans who believe they have been harmed by a vaccine have had access to a little-known ...
Microplastics as a blueprint for health scares: How the “panic pipeline” of activists and academics partners with tort lawyers to manufacture chemical crises
We’ve seen this fear-to-filing pipeline repeatedly in other contested controversies — most recently involving Tylenol and food additives — where ...
FDA Moderna mRNA review flip-flop: A sledgehammer to vaccine—and a gift to anti-vaccine activists
The FDA’s sudden thaw with Moderna doesn’t put an mRNA flu shot on the doorstep of pharmacies; it pushes the ...
Trump-RFK Jr.’s FDA in science freefall: The leucovorin autism “cure” fiasco is one of many
The Food and Drug Administration is looking less and less like a regulator than a circus, with fresh, disconcerting episodes ...
Viewpoint: Why has organic and sustainable farming veered so far away from the scientific evidence?
The Trump administration’s US$700 million Regenerative Pilot Program, announced in late 2025, is one of the most significant federal investments ...
Regenerative agriculture gets a star turn with “health guru” RFK, Jr. and the Trump Administration. What could go wrong? (Plenty)
Who would have thought the Trump administration would be championing “regenerative” farming — an approach long associated with progressive food ...
Viewpoint: Trump’s FDA has been corrupted into a bargaining chip for White House deal-making
For decades, the Food and Drug Administration was the undisputed global gold standard for regulation. While other nations might approve drugs faster or ...
Beautiful and delicious mutants on your plate: The misunderstood world of crop improvement
When most of us hear the word mutation, the images that come to mind are not positive. We think of ...
An effective safety net for vaccines and the people who need them—and why RFK Jr. is poised to cut it
For nearly four decades, Americans who believe they have been harmed by a vaccine have had access to a little-known ...
Treating Huntington’s
During my neurology rotation as a medical student, one of my first patients was in the middle stage of much-dreaded ...
Happy 43rd birthday, GMO insulin. FDA approval in 1982 took 5 months. How many years would it take now?
This is the 43rd anniversary of one of biotechnology’s most significant milestones — the approval by the Food and Drug ...
Viewpoint: Frost season is nearing in Florida’s citrus-growing region. Here’s how backward science at the EPA has closed down a protective solution
“That morning I squeezed every orange and it felt like a wet sponge – I knew I lost the whole ...
The EU passes landmark legislation to curb plastic nurdles threatening ocean ecosystems. It’s not enough. Genetically engineered bacteria could help
Spain’s northern coast has been fighting a months-long assault from a ‘white tide’ of plastic pellets dumped by a Dutch-registered ship ...
The next front in the U.S.–China trade war: Beijing’s control of life-saving medicines?
The U.S.–China trade conflict reignited this past week when Beijing announced it would expand export controls on rare earth minerals ...
Public health without Washington: The growing backlash against Trump and RFK Jr.’s war on evidence-based medicine
The past few weeks have been bruising for public health. First, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...
Vaccines, politics, and the fragile future of public health
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s reshaped federal vaccine panel is expected to vote this week to ...
From plastic coasters to human hearts: Inside the race to print the human body
Fifteen years ago, 3‑D printing was heralded as the technology that would revolutionize manufacturing, democratizing production and allowing anyone with ...
The lingering pandemic: The chronic toll of untreatable long COVID
COVID-19 has not disappeared. According to the most recent weekly update from the CDC, wastewater levels of SARS-CoV-2, the virus ...
When AI goes HAL 9000: How the coming age of agentic AI could unleash catastrophic cyberattacks
With all the hype about the transformative power of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to revolutionize and accelerate innovation, there are some ...
Viewpoint: No, childhood vaccines are not more harmful than the diseases they effectively prevent
Vaccinations not only safeguard individual health but also preserve the collective health of our communities, ensuring that preventable infectious diseases ...
Viewpoint—Science arsonist: NIH director is like the firefighter who sets a house ablaze so he can put it out and claim he’s a hero
On August 12, Jay Bhattacharya wrote an op-ed defending Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services’ decision ...
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 ...
