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4 weeks ago | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | John Stossel |Jon Entine
GLP Policy & Performance Review, 2024 The GLP is committed to full transparency. Download the report.
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2 months ago | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine |Kevin M. Folta
Here is a primer on why the Lyons, France based International Association for Research on Cancer, the IARC, has become the favorite go-to organization for activist environmental Non-governmental organizations (eNGOs) and trial lawyers looking to score billion dollar verdicts litigating safe products like artifical sweeteners, Gardasil, talcum powder and glyphosate.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
For months, the media indulged in a frenzy of fearmongering, plastering headlines about toxic flame retardants supposedly hiding in your kitchen spatulas and children’s toys. CNN, The Atlantic, the LA Times and others uncritically parroted a study from the activist group Toxic-Free Future (TFF), painting an apocalyptic picture of cancer-causing chemicals contaminating recycled black plastic. It was clickbait gold—but it was also flat-out wrong.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
After at least documented 66 cases of humans infected with bird flu – which is surely an undercount — the first death was just reported. A 65-year old man with additional medical issues had been exposed to a combination of a backyard flock and wild birds. Ten states have reported cases in the grim first week of the New Year.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
More than 75 Nobel Prize winners have signed a letter urging senators not to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The letter … marks the first time in recent memory that Nobel laureates have banded together against a Cabinet choice, according to Richard Roberts, winner of the 1993 Nobel in Physiology or Medicine, who helped draft the letter. The group tries to stay out of politics whenever possible, he said.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
Benjamin Taub, Laura Simmons, Sarah Sloat | IFL Science | November 27, 2024 For much of our history, we coexisted with other members of our genus, and our prehistoric ancestors didn’t waste the opportunity to hook up with their Neanderthal and Denisovan relatives. … Reviewing all the existing data on archaic human introgression into the modern human genome, the authors of a new study explain that because Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa in waves, different populations of humans ended up...
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
In clinical trials, most participants taking Wegovy or Mounjaro to treat obesity lost an average of 15% to 22% of their body weight — up to 50 pounds or more in many cases. But roughly 10% to 15% of patients in those trials were “nonresponders” who lost less than 5% of their body weight. …[P]erhaps 20% of patients — as many as 1 in 5 — may not respond well to the medications.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
Without question, the United States of America leads the world in health and agricultural innovation. We have created a system that has room for improvement but overall is recognized as a global innovator. That leadership will radically crash if Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. somehow navigates the confirmation gauntlet and is confirmed as the next secretary of Health and Human Service (HHS). This nomination was not on my Dystopia ‘25 Bingo Card.
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Oct 24, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
For anyone who’s ever worked in a large organization, this kind of message will be depressingly familiar: “Do you have capacity to cascade the following information to your team? Please escalate inquiries through line management channels.”In plain English, this (real-life example) simply means: “Pass this on. Any questions, just ask.”So why not simply say so? And what on earth has this to do with genetics? The late philosopher Denis Dutton provides a potential answer to both questions.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
geneticliteracyproject.org | Jon Entine
For all the attention on flashy new artificial intelligence tools like ChatGPT, the challenges of regulating AI, and doomsday scenarios of
