Food & Nutrition

“Celebrities are particularly influential. On social media, celebrities are perceived as fellow users but also as more credible than ordinary users and more trustworthy than television advertisements.

Bacteria cause most foodborne illnesses, particularly E. coli, Salmonella, or Listeria.

“This Roundup ingredient might cause cancer—but the EPA won’t ban it,” Popular Science told its readers in a terribly misleading January 13 story about the weedkiller glyphos

The USDA's “bioengineered” label now affixed to many products in grocery stores is a massive waste of money that will offer consumers no useful safety or nutrition information, something the

The alterations in our menus in reporting calorie intake come from a new study reported in JAMA Network Open.

Activist groups have attacked all sorts of alleged villains for undermining public health—Big Ag and Big Pharma being the two most common punching bags.

A growing chorus of political commentators and social scientists claims that the West is using genetically engineered crops to “re-colonize” developing countries.

Last week I highlighted four disturbing trends in science journalism that are destroying the public's trust in mainstream academic and publi

“Hall and his colleagues did their best to ensure that the only significant difference between the two groups was in how much processed food they consumed.

Today, many scientific discussions are shot through with social justice rhetoric, and the debate over food security in the developing world is no ex