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Dudes Now Have An Easy Way Of Getting Drugs For Their Hair (And Their Sex Lives)
Sam Island for BuzzFeed News Zachariah Reitano was 17 when he first struggled to get an erection. At 27, Steven Gutentag started losing hair. In college, Andrew Dudum would often google embarrassing...
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The CDC Says It Will Keep Tracking The Flu During The Shutdown
Joshua Lagade of Vista, California, gets fluids in an IV as he lies on a bed with the flu on Jan. 18. Mike Blake / Reuters Despite the government shutdown, the Centers for Disease Control and...
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This Biohacker Just Injected Himself With A DIY Herpes Treatment
Courtesy / Michael Henderson Aaron Traywick was taking off his pants because, he explained to his audience, he needed access to his thigh muscles. Still wearing a suit jacket, he planted his bare left...
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Scientists Are Doubting A Famous Study That Claimed You Can Be Easily Tricked...
Innovatedcaptures / Getty Images On the night of April 19, 1989, Trisha Meili, a 28-year-old white woman, was jogging in Central Park when she was severely beaten, raped, and knocked into a 12-day...
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This Controversial Ivy League Scientist Left His Kickstarter Donors High And Dry
Brian Wansink, as seen in a video asking people to contribute to his Kickstarter. Kickstarter / Via kickstarter.com In 2014, Brian Wansink, the renowned food marketing professor at Cornell University,...
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Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral...
In the summer of 2013, Özge Siğirci, a young scientist in Turkey, had not yet arrived at Cornell University for her new research stint. But she already had an assignment from her future boss, Brian...
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An Ivy League Food Scientist Has Retracted Yet Another Study — His Sixth
Mike Groll / AP Brian Wansink, the Cornell University food marketing professor who faces scientific misconduct allegations, has withdrawn a paper about enticing children to eat vegetables — just a few...
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A Scientist Who Worked Closely With Brian Wansink Is No Longer At His Job
Collin Payne in 2016. National Press Foundation / Via Flickr: nationalpress A New Mexico State University professor embroiled in a scandal over his scientific research is no longer employed by the...
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The “Right To Try” Unapproved Therapies Just Got Shot Down, And Medical...
Sasiistock / Getty Images Under criticism from medical experts, the House of Representatives on Tuesday rejected controversial legislation that would have largely bypassed the Food and Drug...
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The Seven Biggest Lies Theranos Told
Elizabeth Holmes in 2015 Lisa Lake / Getty Images Elizabeth Holmes once dazzled the world with a story that seemed almost too good to be true: Theranos, her Silicon Valley startup, was going to...
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The FDA Is Cracking Down On A Website That Lets You Take A Vision Test From Home
Opternative An online vision-test startup that’s rankled optometrists has been slapped with a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration, which accused it of operating without the agency’s...
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Customers Are Suing A Fertility Center That May Have Damaged Thousands Of...
Lluis Gene / AFP / Getty Images Customers are suing a San Francisco fertility center where an equipment malfunction this month may have damaged thousands of frozen eggs and embryos, and, by extension,...
View ArticleAfter A Torrent Of Criticism, A Journal Just Retracted A Study Pushing The...
Jeannette Hyde Instagram / Via Instagram: @jeannettehydenutrition A science journal has retracted a study claiming that the “Gut Makeover” — a trendy four-week diet that recommends lots of vegetables...
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Hundreds Of Researchers Are Trying To Replicate High-Profile Psychology Studies
Anilakkus / Getty Images More than 400 psychologists worldwide are teaming up to fight a looming problem in their field: headline-making research that doesn’t hold up.As part of a new network called...
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Facebook Bans Tobacco Ads, But The Tobacco Industry Finds Other Ways To...
Tolga Akmen / AFP / Getty Images Facebook’s ban on tobacco advertising hasn’t stopped tobacco and e-cigarette companies from using the platform to promote their products — including to children under...
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Those Studies About Pasta Being Good For You? Some Are Paid For By Barilla.
The headlines were a fettuccine fanatic’s dream. “Eating Pasta Linked to Weight Loss in New Study,” Newsweek reported this month, racking up more than 22,500 Facebook likes, shares, and comments. The...
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The CEO Who Injected Himself With An Experimental Herpes Therapy Was Found...
Aaron Traywick (left) and Machiavelli Davis, production specialist at Ascendance Biomedical News2Share Aaron Traywick, a biohacker who once injected himself with an untested herpes therapy on a...
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CrossFit Just Fired Its Spokesperson Who Said LGBT Pride Is A “Sin”
“He needs to take a big dose of ‘shut the fuck up' and hide out for a while. It’s sad,” CrossFit’s CEO Greg Glassman told BuzzFeed News. View Entire Post ›
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CrossFit’s “Holy War”: The Rise And Fall Of Its Science Crusader
CrossFit’s strident spokesperson Russell Berger was winning a war against junk science — until his anti-LGBT bigotry got him fired. View Entire Post ›
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Here's A Bizarre Medical Scam That Even The FDA Can't Figure Out
A rash of official-looking warning letters may be linked to an "international extortion scam," the FDA said. View Entire Post ›
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