Julia Belluz
Freelance contributor
Latest articles by Julia Belluz
A new study finds it takes people a lot longer to debunk a false claim on Twitter than it does to verify the truth.
Not all produce is created equal.
Multivitamins aren’t helpful. Ditto for probiotics and antioxidants. Yet Americans spend billions on these products.
New startups like this one are trying to disrupt traditional academic publishing.
A new study shows a link between Zika and Guillain-Barré from an outbreak in French Polynesia.
It involves something called a “stool stool.”
The subtle ways pharma companies use celebrities to sell drugs.
“Outcome switching” is a harmful — and hard-to-solve — problem in medicine.
Dr. Robert Califf has close ties with the pharmaceutical industry.
It has to do with the “immune privileged” nature of the testes.