Former Stanford president releases emails to rebut fraud and cover-up allegations in new book Marc Tessier-Lavigne denies claims in Theo Baker’s book that a 2009 study had fabricated results By Jonathan WosenAug. 27, 2026

Former Stanford president releases emails to rebut fraud and cover-up allegations in new book Marc Tessier-Lavigne denies claims in Theo Baker’s book that a 2009 study had fabricated results By Jonathan WosenAug. 27, 2026 https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/27/marc-tessier-lavigne-responds-theo-baker-book-misconduct-stanford-genentech/

The unintended consequences of the Lindsay Clancy case How fear of liability could affect psychiatric care of mothers

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/28/lindsay-clancy-postpartum-psychosis-reproductive-psychiatrists-liability/ By Renee Sorrentino and Susan Hatters FriedmanAug. 28, 2026 Sorrentino is a forensic psychiatrist in Boston. She is president-elect of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law. Friedman is a forensic and reproductive psychiatrist at Case Western Reserve University. She is past president of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law.

We quit the CDC last year. The problems we protested remain Here’s how Congress can protect the health of our country

https://www.statnews.com/2026/08/28/cdc-protest-resignations-one-year-later-houry-jernigan-daskalakis/ By Debra Houry, Daniel Jernigan, and Demetre DaskalakisAug. 28, 2026 Houry was the CDC’s chief medical officer and is now a senior medical adviser for the California Public Health Network Innovation Exchange. Jernigan, M.D., M.P.H., was director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, and is a contributing scholar at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Daskalakis, M.D., M.P.H., was director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and is a consultant for Sanofi, AstraZeneca, and ViiV Healthcare.

The CMP Plot Thickens: Solicitor General Letter Casts FDA’s Tobacco Civil Money Penalty Scheme into Further Doubt August 27, 2026 By Peter G. Dickos & JP Ellison —

https://www.thefdalawblog.com/2026/08/the-cmp-plot-thickens-solicitor-general-letter-casts-fdas-tobacco-civil-money-penalty-scheme-into-further-doubt/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-cmp-plot-thickens-solicitor-general-letter-casts-fdas-tobacco-civil-money-penalty-scheme-into-further-doubt For the first time, the Department of Justice has backed off its prior vigorous defense of FDA’s tobacco product administrative Civil Money Penalty (CMP) scheme as constitutional under the 7th Amendment and Jarkesy. Earlier this week, the Solicitor General sent a letter to Congress saying that it will not seek cert to the Supreme Court from the 5th Circuit’s adverse Texas Tobacco Barn decision finding the CMP there (for sales of unauthorized e-cigarettes) unconstitutional. The big part is the why: because “the Fifth Circuit correctly rejected certain arguments emphasized by the government in this case,” namely, that “interstate commerce” and “public health” were sufficient justifications to overcome/exceptions around the 7th Amendment jury trial right recognized in Jarkesy.

Who’s getting vaccinated? Scientific American ranks states by kindergarten vaccination rates Scientific American | August 28, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/08/28/whos-getting-vaccinated-scientific-american-ranks-states-by-kindergarten-vaccination-rates/ America’s kindergartners are heading back to school less vaccinated than ever. New CDC data analyzed by Scientific American’s Jackie Flynn Mogensen and Sanidhya Sharma show kindergarten MMR vaccination fell to 92.4 percent this year, down from about 95 percent a decade ago, while nonmedical exemptions have roughly doubled, to 4 percent. Measles, once eliminated in the U.S., has logged over 2,500 cases this year, the most since 2000.

Viewpoint: Rebranding questionable ‘anti-aging’ claims as ‘longevity’ treatments is a fashionable new online wellness con Cheek Media | August 28, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/08/28/viewpoint-rebranding-questionable-anti-aging-claims-as-longevity-treatments-is-a-fashionable-new-online-wellness-con/ The global wellness industry has swapped “anti-aging” for “longevity” — same unproven promises, shinier vocabulary — as Cheek Media’s Varsha Yajman reports in a recent investigation into the sector’s marketing tactics. The industry, valued at $6.8 trillion and projected to hit $9.8 trillion by 2029, increasingly relies on influencers rather than clinicians to sell its products, often to people who can least afford to be misled

Viewpoint: No, regenerative agriculture—whatever that means—is no better for the planet or your health than conventional farming that uses pesticides judiciously Cameron English | Orange County Register | August 28, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/08/28/viewpoint-no-regenerative-agriculture-whatever-that-means-is-no-better-for-the-planet-or-your-health-than-conventional-farming-that-uses-pesticides-judiciously/ Americans have been subjected to a decades-long misinformation campaign about agriculture. Instead of the truth—conventional farmers grow ever-increasing amounts of food with relatively fewer pesticides—the public is told that regenerative agriculture is a safer path to sustainable nutrition, as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently declared on X.