Kennedy has quietly stopped touting problematic raw milk. Health concerns aren’t why Sabrina Siddiqui | Wall Street Journal | April 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/29/kennedy-has-quietly-stopped-touting-problematic-raw-milk-health-concerns-arent-why/

Viewpoint — ‘We want to put them in trauma’: The inside story of the crusade targeting public health Matt Motta | Duke University Press | April 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/29/viewpoint-we-want-to-put-them-in-trauma-the-inside-story-of-the-crusade-targeting-public-health/

Viewpoint: Health experts engage MAHA: Shared concerns, differing views on what constitutes evidence Monica Wang | STAT News | April 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/29/viewpoint-health-experts-engage-maha-shared-concerns-differing-views-on-what-constitutes-evidence/

Word games: How Moderna is selling its newest vaccine without using the “v” word Antonio Regalado | MIT Technology Review | April 29, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/29/word-games-how-moderna-is-selling-its-newest-vaccine-without-using-the-v-word/

How America’s medical system encourages psychiatric overdiagnosis Adam Omary, Jeffrey Singer | Cato Institute | April 30, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/30/how-americas-medical-system-encourages-psychiatric-overdiagnosis/ Psychiatric diagnoses in the United States are rising across virtually every category, in every age group. According to the National Institutes of Mental Health, more than one in five US adults—59.3 million people—lived with a mental illness in 2022. An estimated 49.5 percent of American adolescents have met diagnostic criteria for at least one mental disorder at some point in their lifetime.

Anti-vaccine activists are now the majority in RFK, Jr.’s CDC Vaccine Panel Walker Bragman | Important Context | April 30, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/30/anti-vaccine-activists-are-now-the-majority-in-rfk-jr-s-cdc-vaccine-panel/ Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is giving several prominent right-wing and anti-vaccine medical groups a formal role in meetings of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s vaccine advisory committee.

The myths of “process”: What science says about the “dangers’ of synthetic products and ultra-processed foods Josh Bloom | April 30, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/04/30/the-myths-of-process-what-science-says-about-the-dangers-of-synthetic-products-and-ultra-processed-foods/ Two words used to scare people are impossible to avoid: synthetic and its younger cousin, ultra-processed. They’re everywhere—on supermarket shelves, on television, and baked into the psyche of nervous consumers who no longer know what to believe. And that’s entirely intentional. And it works very well.