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Emails Show How An Ivy League Prof Tried To Do Damage Control For His Bogus...
Small Stuff for BuzzFeed News; Getty Images (4); Alamy (2) The Smarter Lunchrooms Movement, a $22 million federally funded program that pushes healthy-eating strategies in almost 30,000 schools, is...
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Companies Say They’ll Keep Selling This Controversial Fertility Test
Nataliaderiabina / Getty Images Despite a new study that shows some fertility tests do not accurately predict a woman’s chances of getting pregnant in her thirties and forties, a handful of businesses...
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This Guy Says He’s The First Person To Attempt Editing His DNA With CRISPR
Allyson Laquian / BuzzFeed News Josiah Zayner, CEO of the biohacking-promoting startup The Odin, held up a syringe. “This will modify my muscle genes to give me bigger muscles,” he told a packed room...
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Here’s How A Controversial Study About Kids And Cookies Turned Out To Be...
Brian Wansink Stan Honda / AFP / Getty Images Last month, a controversial study about the food choices of elementary school students was retracted for statistical errors and replaced with a new...
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Bogus Health News Is All Over Pinterest
Pinterest is where many people turn for ideas about how to be healthy. But the recipes, nutrition advice, and other colorful infographics that the site is so well-known for are rife with bad...
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Two Top Ex-Google Scientists Have Left A $1 Billion Cancer Startup
Crevis2 / Getty Images The Silicon Valley cancer-detection startup Grail, which has raised $1 billion, recently lost two top executives — the latest in a handful of departures, BuzzFeed News has...
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This DNA Testing Company Is Violating Federal Lab Testing Rules
Orig3n / Via orig3n.com A US federal agency has found that Orig3n, the startup behind a controversial plan to collect football fans’ DNA, doesn’t have the legal certification to sell genetic health...
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The Ketogenic Diet Now Comes In A Tiny Bottle, But Dietitians Are Skeptical
HVMN Don’t want to fast to try the ultra-trendy, high-fat, low-carb ketogenic diet? A San Francisco startup thinks you should take a shot of its elixir instead — even though the science behind it is...
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This Company Made Up Fake News And Fake Celeb Quotes To Sell Supplements, FTC...
A Tarr Inc. ad that the FTC referenced in its complaint against the company. Screenshot by the Federal Trade Commission / Via ftc.gov One online ad claimed that Jennifer Aniston owed her youthful skin...
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This Ivy League Scientist Did A Bunch Of Food Surveys And Somehow Got The...
David Duprey / AP In 2001, food behavior scientist Brian Wansink reported that he’d mailed a 12-page survey to 1,002 people, trying to find out whether knowing about soy’s health benefits made them...
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An Ivy League Food Scientist Is Retracting Yet Another Paper
Mike Groll / AP Cornell University food behavior scientist Brian Wansink has retracted yet another problematic study. This makes his fourth full retraction this year, along with at least eight...
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Cornell University Is Investigating Brian Wansink’s Controversial Research On...
Mike Groll / AP Cornell University has launched an investigation into the work of Brian Wansink, the food behavior and marketing expert who has come under fire for scientific misconduct allegations...
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This Startup Has Invented Egg-Free Scrambled Eggs That Taste Like Eggs
Stephanie M. Lee / BuzzFeed News After a tumultuous year of reported financial losses and executive departures, the food startup Hampton Creek is trying to get back on track by unveiling eggless...
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A High-Profile Anti-Tobacco Crusader Is Being Sued For Sexual Harassment
Stanton Glantz in 1998. Chris Pizzello / AP A high-profile anti-tobacco crusader at UC San Francisco is being sued by a former postdoctoral researcher who says he sexually harassed her and other...
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The Latest "Unicorn" Genetically Engineers Everything From Perfume To Food
An employee at Ginkgo Bioworks's newest building, Bioworks3. Courtesy / Ginkgo Bioworks Ginkgo Bioworks, the biotech startup that’s genetically engineering microbes to make everything from fragrances...
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No Words Are Actually Banned At The CDC, Its Director Says
Branden Camp / AP The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is denying a report that the Trump administration had forbidden the nation’s top public health agency from using seven...
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These 13 Startups And Products Didn’t Make It Through 2017
Via giphy.com With the exception of Taylor Swift, 2017 wasn’t a good year for anyone. But the employees and entrepreneurs at these startups had a particularly rough time. While each company or gadget...
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Food Scientist Brian Wansink Is Getting Yet Another Paper Retracted, This...
Gallo Images / Getty Images Cornell University food behavior scientist Brian Wansink is retracting yet another study, his fifth over the past year, due partly to “unreliable data,” a journal editor...
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These Food Products Are Considered “Healthier” For Kids By The Food Industry
Instagram: @generalmillscereal Whether Tony the Tiger is declaring Frosted Flakes “grrreat” or a manic bird is going “cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs,” food commercials remain mainstays of after-school TV even...
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Insurer Settles Lawsuit For $17 Million For Accidentally Outing HIV Patients
Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Aetna has agreed to pay $17 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit after the health insurance company mailed out envelopes that accidentally revealed thousands...
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