Research
Survey suggests illicit fentanyl use is 25 times higher than the feds estimate
A new survey of American adults suggests that illicit opioid use in the United States is much more common than the government's numbers indicate. In the survey, conducted via the online platform Respondi in June 2024,…
Trump Restricts Research That Could Trigger Pandemics
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday restricting gain-of-function research, which involves deliberately altering viruses and pathogens to enhance capabilities like transmissibility or harmfulness. While…
Josh Hawley’s attack on abortion pills is backed by bad data
The abortion pill mifepristone "is not safe and effective," argue the authors of a new study that uses insurance claim data to examine adverse reactions to the pill. They claim to have found a "serious adverse…
Trump proposes $17 billion cut to NIH, citing COVID lab leak theory
The White House budget calls for slashing $17 billion in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), citing the agency's failure to properly monitor risky gain-of-function research it funded at the Wuhan…
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