Debunking misinformation is a big business. For every health "influencer" selling a supplement on Instagram, there's probably ...

From celery juice and carnivore diets to gluten avoidance and "proteinmaxxing," nutritional advice has become a bewildering ...

We tend to regard chronic disease as the cumulative consequence of choices made over decades. However, a study of an ...

A new study helps clarify the weight-loss impact of diet drinks and dispel a popular myth about artificial sweeteners. As it ...

Pesticides are designed to kill insects, fungi, and weeds. So, it is reasonable to wonder whether they can harm us as well.

Something strange and potentially frightening is going on at a Russian laboratory in Siberia. One or more scientists have ...

According to one recent cancer-risk methodology, living near Costco can be “associated” with thousands of cancer deaths — ...

She was told she was chasing the impossible. She persisted through poverty, skepticism, and 25,000 failed attempts. In the ...

A new CNN story is based on a report by the Environmental Justice Foundation, which is about as scientific as its name sounds. It's meant to scare the hell out of you. The science may be crap, but the ...

Eighteen months ago, I asked whether anti-vaccine rhetoric and a retreat from infectious-disease preparedness might open the ...

Science is supposed to correct its own errors. In practice, distorted academic incentives often block that quality control.