Dalmeet Singh Chawla argues in a new opinion piece that academic publishers — some with profit margins rivaling major tech companies, per the piece, should fund dedicated fact-checking alongside peer review.

In a small undergraduate study, most of 10 interviewees with hair loss had not sought medical care, some citing a belief that dermatologists lacked understanding of Black or Afro-textured hair.

Ingredient labels don't list specific chemicals or compounds, Jennifer Pomeranz notes that terms like "corn oil" or "flavorings" can mask new additives the FDA has never reviewed.

The Pan American Health Organization has delayed its evaluation of U.S. measles elimination status until its annual meeting in November, partly because the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention needed more time for genomic analysis.

A 2020 report by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society found it "difficult to envision" a method to verify, before implantation, whether all embryo cells were properly edited.

Pharmacists Randy Hatton and Leslie Hendeles have spent roughly two decades compiling evidence that oral phenylephrine performs no better than a placebo as a nasal decongestant.

Reading Charles Darwin's "The Descent of Man" with students, C. Brandon Ogbunu reconsidered his view that the right response to Darwin's backward ideas on race and gender is simply to "get over them."

The United Steelworkers union has called the proposed federal radiation standard revisions "a dangerous rewriting of radiation safety rules." 41 other organizations have also filed formal objections.

A 2020 report by the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Medicine, and the Royal Society found it "difficult to envision" a method to verify, before implantation, whether all embryo cells were properly edited.

A board member of the Colibrí Center for Human Rights says the organization has "shut down" and the DNA database may already have been destroyed. Legal experts say government intervention is unlikely.

Nearly 40% of total research on parental alienation appeared after 2016, according to a 2022 literature review, reflecting rapid growth in a deeply contested field.

Geographers Katharina Seeger and Philip Minderhoud of Wageningen University & Research report that corrected calculations show up to 37 percent more area and up to 68 percent more people will fall below sea level following 3.3 feet of rise.

"If you just want to talk about males and females — go for it. But if you want to talk about the social factors that influence health, you are not going to get funded." — NIH staffer, speaking anonymously.

Clinically, patients harmed by prediction markets present the same pattern as those harmed by traditional gambling, escalating losses, secrecy, chasing losses, and relapse, according to addiction psychiatrist Timothy Fong.

Children's bodies take longer to acclimate to heat and produce sweat, and they are more prone to dehydration, making them uniquely vulnerable as heat waves grow in intensity, length, and scope.

Replanted post-logging plots, rows of monocultural seedlings in plastic tubes, are what Simard calls "cellulose cemeteries." She argues they fail as carbon sinks and fire buffers alike.

"Original Sin" argues for "punishment with forgiveness" — holding wrongdoers responsible while leaving open the possibility of rehabilitation, regardless of genetic background.

Refuse-derived fuel, a mixture of packaging, plastic waste, scrap wood, and paper, is a more than $5.4 billion annual market. Upwards of 45 percent is consumed by the cement industry, one analysis estimated.

A co-editor-in-chief of Regulatory Toxicology and Pharmacology retracted a widely cited 2000 glyphosate safety paper last fall, citing methodological concerns, ghostwriting questions, and author financial independence.

A 2025 paper modeled two launch-rate scenarios through 2030. Even under conservative estimates, researchers found ozone layer impacts are a matter of when, not whether.

Some U.S. parents are forming networks to opt out of school-issued devices and return to physical textbooks and handwriting — reflecting what the article describes as a growing backlash to digital technology in education.

Some fabricated regulatory citations identified by Brett Pollard predate ChatGPT's November 2022 launch, meaning generative AI may not be the only explanation, Chawla writes.

Whole genome sequencing could determine whether U.S. measles outbreaks in 2025 stemmed from continuous interstate spread or separate introductions from abroad — a distinction that determines elimination status.

Suzanne Simard's research found that modern machine logging causes a 61% reduction in forest floor carbon, which she calls "detonating a carbon bomb." Her new book examines the science and its stakes.

C. Brandon Ogbunu: scientists who do the research, collect the data, and can tell those stories may be among the best equipped to defend scientific institutions in a skeptical public climate.

Mosaicism, when CRISPR edits some embryo cells but not others, makes it "virtually impossible," experts say, to confirm before implantation whether all cells have been correctly edited.

The United Steelworkers union has called the proposed federal radiation standard revisions "a dangerous rewriting of radiation safety rules." 41 other organizations have also filed formal objections.

An opinion essay by Spencer Kwabena Annor-Ampofo argues that Black and African patients are underrepresented in alopecia research, limiting dermatologists' ability to address their specific needs.

University of New Mexico toxicologist Matthew Campen: "You might not even know that you're depressed or anxious as a result of exposures that happened three weeks ago." His lab studies wildfire smoke's effects on the brain.

Megaconstellation satellite deployments — like SpaceX's Starlink — accounted for roughly 40% of rocket pollution as of 2022, according to UCL researcher Connor Barker. That share is still growing.

Kathryn Paige Harden traces the doctrine of original sin to the fourth-century cleric Augustine, whose own life shaped his view that humans are inherently flawed — and blameworthy for it.

A Food and Drug Administration advisory committee voted unanimously in 2023 to recommend removing oral phenylephrine from the market. More than two years later, no final order has been issued.

Infamous CIA spy Aldrich Ames passed a polygraph twice while actively committing espionage. He later said KGB advice — be cooperative and calm — helped him do it.

By 2022, the Colibrí Center for Human Rights had assisted in approximately 500 migrant identifications. Forensic partners say that without database access, a dozen or more pending cases cannot be resolved.

A 2016 study of more than 50 strains of rats found that males were generally more hormonally variable than females — countering a common rationale for excluding females from lab research.

A Nature study found plastics can contain any of more than 16,000 different chemicals, a quarter of which may pose health concerns. When burned in low-tech furnaces, researchers say the dangers multiply.

A 2024 statement signed by more than 100 academics says parental alienation "still lacks a universal clinical and scientific definition" and may be considered a pseudoscience.

Labeling science as "gold standard" can actually make it harder to communicate uncertainty honestly, Scaccia writes — because acknowledging limits may sound like backtracking rather than transparency.

Platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket let users trade on elections, court decisions, and geopolitical events. A new opinion piece examines what that reframing of odds as probabilities, bets as trades, may mean for public health.

30% of educators said their students spend at least half of classroom reading time doing so digitally, per a 2023 survey. Researchers have linked heavy digital use to reduced comprehension and memory retention.

More than 9,000 high school athletes receive treatment for heat illnesses each year, per past estimates from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nine died from exertional heatstroke in 2021 alone, a record.

SIU geomorphologist Adriana Martinez, who has studied the existing Eagle Pass buoys, says she has "significant concerns" about how the larger federal buoys will behave during flooding events.

Timothy Fong, an addiction psychiatrist at UCLA, says decreasing the perceived harm of gambling-like behavior increases the likelihood of engagement — particularly among young people and those with existing vulnerabilities.

A 2025 Idaho National Laboratory report found that without the "as low as reasonably achievable" standard, nuclear workers could face up to five times more radiation exposure than current levels.

Eggs from chickens in Tropodo, Indonesia contained the second-highest dioxin level ever detected in an egg in Asia, according to research by Ecoton and partner organizations.

Different scientific questions demand different methods. Scaccia argues that branding one approach as universally superior "flattens this diversity" and misrepresents how knowledge is made.

At least 2,285 measles cases were recorded in 44 states in 2025, the worst year in more than three decades. As of late March 2026, 1,575 cases have already been reported.

Swedish officials say digital tools "should only be introduced in teaching at an age when they encourage, rather than hinder, pupils' learning." The goal, they say, is recalibration — not reversal.

Chemist Brett Pollard and colleagues found roughly 20 papers citing water safety standards attributed to the WHO and EPA that, according to the researchers, those agencies never produced.

Researchers describe a pattern: AI-generated "educational" children's videos that begin accurately, then introduce errors midway — meaning a parent who previews only the opening may not catch the misinformation.