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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.
Stephanie M. Lee • 3 days 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 • 18 days 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 • One month 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 • 2 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 • 2 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 • 3 months ago

Hundreds Of Researchers Are Trying To Replicate High-Profile Psychology Studies

Tired of flashy research that fails to hold up, psychologists around the world are taking it upon themselves to redo influential studies.
Stephanie M. Lee • 3 months ago

After A Torrent Of Criticism, A Journal Just Retracted A Study Pushing The Trendy “Gut Makeover” Diet

A journal just retracted a study supporting the “Gut Makeover” diet, one of countless ventures to seize on microbiome hype.
Stephanie M. Lee • 3 months ago

Customers Are Suing A Fertility Center That May Have Damaged Thousands Of Eggs And Embryos

At least two lawsuits have been filed against Pacific Fertility Center in San Francisco after thousands of frozen eggs and embryos were potentially damaged.
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

The FDA Is Cracking Down On A Website That Lets You Take A Vision Test From Home

Opternative, a startup that lets people get a glasses prescription without leaving home, has received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration.
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

The Seven Biggest Lies Theranos Told

Theranos, led by CEO and founder Elizabeth Holmes, raised more than $700 million on the promise of a revolutionary blood-testing technology that never materialized. The Securities and Exchange Commission just charged Holmes with “massive fraud.”
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

The “Right To Try” Unapproved Therapies Just Got Shot Down, And Medical Experts Are Relieved

A law that would give terminally ill patients the “right to try” unapproved treatments — and largely bypass federal regulators — failed to pass the House of Representatives on Tuesday.
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

A Scientist Who Worked Closely With Brian Wansink Is No Longer At His Job

Collin Payne has come under fire for his studies with Brian Wansink, a renowned food marketing scientist at Cornell University. As of January, Payne is no longer a professor at New Mexico State University.
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

An Ivy League Food Scientist Has Retracted Yet Another Study — His Sixth

The withdrawn paper, about getting kids to eat more vegetables, is Cornell professor Brian Wansink’s sixth retraction.
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

Here’s How Cornell Scientist Brian Wansink Turned Shoddy Data Into Viral Studies About How We Eat

Brian Wansink won fame, funding, and influence for his science-backed advice on healthy eating. Now, emails show how the Cornell professor and his colleagues have hacked and massaged low-quality data into headline-friendly studies to “go virally big time.”
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

This Controversial Ivy League Scientist Left His Kickstarter Donors High And Dry

Cornell University food scientist Brian Wansink, who’s embroiled in research misconduct allegations, now has another problem: Kickstarter donors who say they never got what they were promised. Wansink apologized to them after an inquiry from BuzzFeed News.
Stephanie M. Lee • 4 months ago

Scientists Are Doubting A Famous Study That Claimed You Can Be Easily Tricked Into A False Confession

A study made headlines in 2015 for claiming that 70% of people could be convinced they’d committed a false crime. Now critics are pushing back on the study — and it’s getting a formal correction.
Stephanie M. Lee • 5 months ago

This Biohacker Just Injected Himself With A DIY Herpes Treatment

Aaron Traywick made himself a guinea pig for a never-before-tested gene therapy for herpes made by his own company. Legal experts say that distributing these unproven therapies may be against the law.
Stephanie M. Lee • 5 months ago

The CDC Says It Will Keep Tracking The Flu During The Shutdown

The public health agency says it will continue tracking nationwide flu cases, though at a slower pace. Flu experts had worried the program would be paused, as it was in the 2013 shutdown.
Stephanie M. Lee • 5 months ago

Dudes Now Have An Easy Way Of Getting Drugs For Their Hair (And Their Sex Lives)

A wave of men’s health startups are prescribing balding and erectile-dysfunction drugs over the internet. But some doctors worry that the companies are set up to push medications on patients who might not need them.
Stephanie M. Lee • 5 months ago
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