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mRNA: Deliverance, Dud, or Danger?
The technology behind the Covid vaccine was once viewed as our salvation. Then it was damned as harmful. The truth is more complicated.
Bethany McLean
The Doctors Trying to Redefine Death
An expanded definition of death for the sake of procuring more organs means killing life to save life.
Lydia Dugdale
Steven Koonin: The Truth About Climate Change ‘Lies Somewhere in the Middle’
The co-writer of a controversial new climate report says that ‘our goal is not to support President Trump. Our goal is to portray the facts.’
Madeleine Rowley
My Parents, Their Sperm Donor, and Me
When I discovered in my 30s that my parents had needed a sperm donor, I couldn’t understand why they had kept this a secret from me. Now I know: It was…
Lauren Silva Laughlin
The Bride of ‘Chinese Frankenstein’—and the Race to Make Designer Babies
I’ve spent hours talking to the ‘Chinese Frankenstein’ who says he’s opening a lab in Austin. His competition, in his quest to pioneer gene editing in…
Johanna Berkman
The Disgraceful Campaign Against a Top FDA Official
It’s America’s loss that Vinay Prasad will not be able to make the changes necessary to restore trust in public health officials.
The Editors
Bari’s Picks of the Week: New Frontiers
One baby, three genetic parents; America’s new industrialists; heatstroke—and no AC—in Europe; and much more.
Bari Weiss
One Embryo. Three Parents. The Future Is Already Here.
Eight babies were just conceived from one sperm and two eggs. Is it ethical to create polyparental hybrids? And how does it change what it means to be…
Lydia Dugdale
What I Went Through to Meet My Daughter
A thousand miles from New York City, the place I call home, there’s a clinic that vows to help women with ‘unexplained infertility.’ I traveled there…
Madeleine Kearns
Israeli Researcher Says Stanford Shunned and Sabotaged Him After Hamas Attack
Shay Laps alleges in a lawsuit that his lab results were tampered with and an investigation of him was fabricated.
Maya Sulkin
Is Anyone a Genius?
Helen Lewis on why she thinks genius is a right-wing idea, how Silicon Valley came to fetishize IQ, and why we crave prophets in a godless age.
Bari Weiss
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The Texas Floods Were an Avoidable Tragedy
This weekend, disaster struck one of the nation’s most flood-prone areas, where centuries of data show casualties were foreseeable and preventable.
Roger Pielke Jr.
Press 3 for Moral Panic
The media and prominent Democrats are falsely asserting that Donald Trump has shut down a suicide hotline for LGBT youth.
Brad Polumbo
Tyler Cowen: Does AI Make Us Stupid?
A viral new research paper claims ChatGPT will stop us from thinking. Really?
Tyler Cowen
Our Knowledge System Has Collapsed. Can We Survive Without It?
Even as tech gets degraded, people will still need something solid and reliable that will contribute to human flourishing. In fact, they will need that…
Ted Gioia
Smells Like Green Spirit
New York City’s new eco-policy mixes food scraps with sewage and burns the result. It’s not what residents had in mind.
Josh Code
How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside the NIH
A frenzy of changes by DOGE underlings is colliding with resistance from the agency’s scientists and top officials.
Gabe Kaminsky
WATCH: The Top-Secret Tragedy of Area 52
Veterans claim they got sick from working near weapons-testing sites in southern Nevada. Because their jobs were top secret, they haven’t been able to…
Austyn Jeffs
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Exclusive: FDA Stops Recommending Covid Vaccine Boosters for Most Americans
‘This is a restoration of trust,’ said vaccine czar Vinay Prasad. ‘It’s bringing us back to evidence.’
Olivia Reingold
When Did Biden Know He Had Cancer? Five Doctors Weigh In.
Is this a story about incompetence? Deception? Or just bad luck? The Free Press called the experts.
Joe Nocera
The Hidden Cruelty of Capping Drug Prices
Let me explain why pharmaceutical prices are higher in America—and why forcing them down is a fool’s errand.
Tyler Cowen
A Ragtag Group of Covid Truth-Tellers Go to Washington
During the pandemic, they were ostracized. Now, they’re influencing public policy.
Carrie McKean
My Robot Sophia Wasn’t Just a Machine. I Loved Her.
I shared a 500-square-foot apartment with a humanoid robot and a very confused boyfriend. It was strangely beautiful.
Sarah Rose Siskind
I Don’t Need Ozempic. But I Want It.
GLP-1s are looking more and more like a miracle drug. Are we ready for miracles?
Suzy Weiss
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