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Conspiracy Theories

Who’s afraid for Naomi Wolf? The fall of a feminist icon into a conspiracist rabbithole

Michael Marshall -
Throughout the pandemic, writer Naomi Wolf fell from feminist icon and public intellectual, to conspiracy theorist and talking head of the right-wing media ecosystem
Health

Lost in translation: why most longevity breakthroughs don’t become therapies

Brian Goncus -
From calorie restriction to enzyme supplements, longevity hackers are often quick to jump on the latest research - but over time, it fails to hold up.
Health

The rise in chronic disease doesn’t necessarily mean we are getting sicker

Travis Baldwin -
Robert F. Kennedy Jr is right to say chronic disease is on the rise – but it's due to a population that's living longer and less likely to die from disease.
Nutrition

No, artificial sweeteners do not cause cognitive decline

Mauro Proença -
A Brazilian cohort study made headlines with claims artificial sweeteners cause cognitive decline, but the evidence it presents is weak at best.
Conspiracy Theories

Peter Duesberg is dead, but his legacy of AIDS denial lives on in Joe Rogan

Michael Marshall -
Podcaster Joe Rogan has spread 1980s-era AIDS denial rhetoric with disconcerting frequency, based on the discredited work of Prof Peter Duesberg.
Cancer

The high price of anti-science paranoia and fake cancer-cure conspiracies

André Bacchi -
Patients who choose to use complementary medicine are troublingly likely to refuse conventional medicine – at great personal cost.
Health

How arbitrary decisions become dogma in healthcare

André Bacchi -
Established medical protocols are rarely critically re-evaluated, which can lead to ideas that persist because of inertia rather than evidence.
Nutrition

No, a study didn’t show oat milk and veganism will make you depressed

Michael Marshall -
The media warned that vegan diets and oat milk cause depression – based on a study that says nothing of the sort.
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