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Transgender Athletes Can Now Compete In The CrossFit Games
“CrossFit admitted they’re wrong and is making it right,” trans athlete Chloie Jönsson told BuzzFeed News. View Entire Post ›
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Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? That Study — And Many Others — Were Just...
“Our study in hindsight was outright silly,” one scientist said. View Entire Post ›
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A Prison Study Aims To End The “Salt Wars.” It Turns Out The Salt Industry...
A proposed health study of low-salt diets on prisoners has undisclosed salt industry funding. View Entire Post ›
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Cornell University Food Scientist Brian Wansink Just Had Six More Studies...
Wansink, who is still teaching at Cornell, has now retracted 13 papers in total. View Entire Post ›
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Cornell Just Found Brian Wansink Guilty Of Scientific Misconduct And He Has...
His last day will be June 30, 2019. View Entire Post ›
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At Least 68 People Are Nearly Blind After A Botched Drug Was Injected Into...
Their tragedies expose a shadowy US industry that sells drugs with little government oversight. View Entire Post ›
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The FDA Doesn’t Know What To Do About Scientists Who Are Sexual Harassers
Anti–Big Tobacco crusader Stanton Glantz settled a sexual harassment lawsuit from a former researcher. Then his center won a $20 million research grant. View Entire Post ›
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Cancer Hospital Ads Deceive Patients About Their Chances Of Survival, New...
"It's providing them with a hope that they may have thought didn't exist for their cancer," says the executive director of TruthInAdvertising.org. View Entire Post ›
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Cornell Should Reveal What It Found Out About Disgraced Food Scientist Brian...
“The practice of science requires the highest levels of transparency,” researchers said in an open letter to Cornell. View Entire Post ›
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Turns Out Cornell’s Brian Wansink Investigation Is Still Very Much Going
Cornell is looking at whether its star professor’s misconduct affected research funded by the federal government. View Entire Post ›
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Just Before Thanksgiving, A Turkey Supplier Is Recalling 91,000 Pounds Of Raw...
With Thanksgiving less than a week away, the feds still don’t know the original source of the salmonella outbreak that has sickened 164 people and killed one. View Entire Post ›
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This Giant Avocado Has Sparked A Lawsuit Over Who Gets To Sell It
The avocado boom has birthed a fight over who gets to make money off the patented giant “Carla.” View Entire Post ›
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Here’s How A Colorado Dentist Became Big Sugar’s Worst Nightmare
For decades, companies worked to cast doubt on whether sugar harms — until Cristin Kearns started digging up the dirt. View Entire Post ›
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A Viral Study About Fake News Was Just Retracted
The 2017 study was covered by dozens of news outlets, including BuzzFeed News. View Entire Post ›
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Aeromexico’s “Mexican DNA” Discounts Ad Gets DNA Testing Wrong
“There’s no such thing as United States DNA, so why would there be Mexican DNA? It doesn’t make any sense,” a genetic genealogist said. View Entire Post ›
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These Men Want The Scientific Community To Acknowledge That A Famous...
Dozens of men remember a Rockefeller researcher, now dead, sexually abusing them decades ago. After inquiries from BuzzFeed News, the editors of two journals have decided to acknowledge the allegations...
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FDA Chief Scott Gottlieb Has Resigned
The FDA commissioner, who took stands against teen vaping and online opioid sales, said he wants to spend more time with his family. View Entire Post ›
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The Company Accused Of Blinding Dozens Will Be Allowed To Stay Open, Judge Rules
Guardian Pharmacy Services in Dallas can continue to operate under certain conditions. Lawyers representing the blinded patients say the punishment is too light. View Entire Post ›
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The New Acting Chief Of The FDA Is A Cancer Scientist
Norman "Ned" Sharpless has publicly supported the agency's policies to curb the use of e-cigarettes. View Entire Post ›
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A Measles Case Has Hit Google's Silicon Valley Headquarters
In the midst of a historic US measles outbreak, at least one Google employee walking around the tech giant’s main Silicon Valley campus has been diagnosed. View Entire Post ›
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