Stephanie M. Lee
Stephanie M. Lee is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and is based in San Francisco.
Contact this reporter at stephanie.lee@buzzfeed.com
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.”
Stephanie M. Lee
• 19 days ago
Just Before Thanksgiving, A Turkey Supplier Is Recalling 91,000 Pounds Of Raw Meat Because Of Salmonella Fears
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 26 days ago
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• One month ago
Cornell Should Reveal What It Found Out About Disgraced Food Scientist Brian Wansink, Dozens Of Scientists Say
“The practice of science requires the highest levels of transparency,” researchers said in an open letter to Cornell.
Stephanie M. Lee
• One month ago
Cancer Hospital Ads Deceive Patients About Their Chances Of Survival, New Report Finds
"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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• One month ago
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• One month ago
At Least 68 People Are Nearly Blind After A Botched Drug Was Injected Into Their Eyeballs
Their tragedies expose a shadowy US industry that sells drugs with little government oversight.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 2 months ago
Cornell Just Found Brian Wansink Guilty Of Scientific Misconduct And He Has Resigned
His last day will be June 30, 2019.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 2 months ago
Cornell University Food Scientist Brian Wansink Just Had Six More Studies Retracted
Wansink, who is still teaching at Cornell, has now retracted 13 papers in total.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 2 months ago
A Prison Study Aims To End The “Salt Wars.” It Turns Out The Salt Industry Wants To Help Fund It.
A proposed health study of low-salt diets on prisoners has undisclosed salt industry funding.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 2 months ago
Does Google Actually Make Us Dumber? That Study — And Many Others — Were Just Called Into Question.
“Our study in hindsight was outright silly,” one scientist said.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 3 months ago
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 4 months ago
Jordan Peterson Says Meat Cured His Depression. Now His Daughter Is Charging People To Chat About The “Carnivore Diet.”
Mikhaila Peterson, 26, is now making money off a new kind of diet that allegedly cured her depression and arthritis: all meat, all the time.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 4 months ago
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 5 months ago
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 5 months ago
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.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 6 months ago
The CEO Who Injected Himself With An Experimental Herpes Therapy Was Found Dead In A Sensory Deprivation Tank
The body of 28-year-old startup CEO Aaron Traywick was found Sunday morning in a spa in Northwest DC.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 7 months ago
Those Studies About Pasta Being Good For You? Some Are Paid For By Barilla.
Facing pressure from the low-carb movement, Barilla and other companies are funding and promoting research that argues pasta is healthy.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 7 months ago
Facebook Bans Tobacco Ads, But The Tobacco Industry Finds Other Ways To Market To Teens On The Platform
As Facebook comes under fire for its advertising and data-sharing practices, researchers have discovered that e-cigarettes and other tobacco products are being hawked on the platform to teens.
Stephanie M. Lee
• 8 months ago