Episodes

  • Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide

    Big Tobacco promotes e-cigarettes, undermines health protections through U.S. business groups worldwide
    Jun 30 2026
    Tobacco companies remain embedded in influential U.S. business groups worldwide, giving the industry a discreet and powerful channel to weaken regulation and undermine public health, a new study finds.
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    11 mins
  • Newly Declassified 2020 Intelligence Assessment Found Wuhan Lab’s Conditions Were Ripe For Potential Coronavirus Release

    Newly Declassified 2020 Intelligence Assessment Found Wuhan Lab’s Conditions Were Ripe For Potential Coronavirus Release
    Jun 19 2026
    A newly declassified Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory assessment from May 2020 concluded that all of the conditions necessary for an accidental release of a laboratory-modified coronavirus were present at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted.
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    11 mins
  • Newly released U.S. intelligence memo reveals plans for independent COVID origins study

    Newly released U.S. intelligence memo reveals plans for independent COVID origins study
    Jun 18 2026
    Newly released intelligence records show that as recently as January 2025, the U.S. intelligence community planned to create an independent panel of outside experts to study how the COVID-19 pandemic began.
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    5 mins
  • PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ may be linked to multiple sclerosis, especially in women

    PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ may be linked to multiple sclerosis, especially in women
    Jun 16 2026
    Women with higher blood levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — known as PFAS or "forever chemicals" — may be more likely to have multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a new study.
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    9 mins
  • Pesticide use around homes and farms linked to childhood leukemia, brain tumors

    Pesticide use around homes and farms linked to childhood leukemia, brain tumors
    Jun 8 2026
    Forty years of studies find higher cancer risks among children exposed during pregnancy and early life to pesticides used on farms, lawns, gardens, and pets.
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    12 mins
  • Nearly 300 studies link the common pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage, DNA disruption, and chronic disease

    Nearly 300 studies link the common pesticide chlorpyrifos to multi-organ damage, DNA disruption, and chronic disease
    Jun 3 2026
    Growing evidence suggests chlorpyrifos may damage the brain, hormones, liver, gut microbiome, muscles, reproductive organs, and bones.
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    22 mins
  • Neonicotinoid health risks: widespread exposure, growing evidence of harm

    Neonicotinoid health risks: widespread exposure, growing evidence of harm
    May 26 2026
    A growing body of scientific evidence raises concerns about the human health risks of neonicotinoid exposure, including neurotoxicity and reproductive toxicity.
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    26 mins
  • CIA whistleblower alleges COVID lab-leak findings were suppressed by agency

    CIA whistleblower alleges COVID lab-leak findings were suppressed by agency
    May 13 2026
    CIA analysts concluded multiple times that COVID-19 most likely originated from a laboratory, but intelligence leaders repeatedly altered those findings in official summaries later offered to the public, a CIA whistleblower testified Wednesday before the Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee.
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    23 mins